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What is the impact of the war in Ukraine on the Russian economy and the Russian energy sector? How are sanctions affecting the Russian economy? Russia is the world’s largest exporter of fossil fuels—how is its approach to global decarbonization and climate change shifting?

These are some of the questions that will be addressed at The Russia Conference 2022.

Norwegian minister of Foreign Affairs Anniken Huitfeldt will open the event.

The conference is the main annual event on Russian affairs in Norway and will bring together prominent Norwegian and international participants with a professional interest in Russia. This year the conference is organized jointly by NUPI and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute, and it is a part of the KODAK project.

 The event will take place on 15 November 2022 at House of Literature in Oslo, from 09:00 to 12:40 CET.

The conference will also be streamed to NUPI's YouTube channel. No registration is required for those who will join us online.

 

PROGRAMME:

08.30

Registration opens, coffee and tea

09.00

Welcome: Ulf Sverdrup, Director, NUPI

09.05

Opening: Anniken Huitfeldt, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway

09.15

Keynote: Iikka Korhonen, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition

09.25 

Panel 1: The Russian economy and sanctions against Russia

 

Panellists:

          Iikka Korhonen, Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition

          Arne Melchior, NUPI

          Cecilie Sendstad, Norwegian Defense Research Establishment

          Ingerid Opdahl, Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies

 

Chair: 

          Roman Vakulchuk, NUPI

10.40

Coffee break

11.00

Panel 2: The Russian energy sector and global decarbonization in a time of upheaval

 

Panellists:

          David Tarr, The World Bank           

          Anna Korppoo, Fridtjof Nansen Institute

          Tatiana Mitrova, Columbia University

           Jack Sharples, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

 

Chair:

          Arild Moe, Fridtjof Nansen Institute

12.15

Closing words: Kristin Fjæstad, NUPI

12.20

LUNCH