Russia and the New Cold War. Current State and Possible Evolution.

The event will be held on Tuesday, November 5th, starting with 10.00, at The National Military Club, Alba Iulia Hall, 3rd floor, Constantin Mille Street Entrance.

Event Agenda:

10.00-11.30 Panel I. Perspectives on the foreign and security policy of Russia. Possible future actions of 's regime. 10.00-10.10 Opening remarks by Ambassador Sergiu Celac, the Honorary Chairman of New Strategy Center, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania • Contribution of Mr. Andrey Nikolayevich Illarionov, senior fellow in the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute in Washington, former economic policy advisor to the , . 10.50-11:30 Open Discussion

11:30-11:50 Coffee break

11:50 – 13:00 Panel II - The economic and social situation in Russia and the effects of the sanctions Chair: Ambassador Lazăr Comănescu, Member of the Scientific Council of New Strategy Center, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania • Contribution of Mr. Andrey Nikolayevich Illarionov, senior fellow in the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute in Washington, former economic policy advisor to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin 12:30-13:00 Open Discussion

Andrey Nikolayevich Illarionov is a Russian economist and former economic policy advisor to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. He works as a senior fellow in the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC.

Illarionov was born on 16 September 1961, in Sestroretsk, Leningrad Oblast, now a municipal town of . He then went on to study economics at the Leningrad State University, graduating in 1983, and receiving a Ph.D. in economics in 1987. From 1983 to 1984, and again from 1988 to 1990 Illarionov taught for the International Economic Relations Department of Leningrad State University. From 1990 to 1992 he was senior researcher at the Regional Economic Research Department of the Saint Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. From 1992 he became part-time economic adviser to the Russian

Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar and (until 1993) the first deputy head of the Economic Reform Centre of the Russian Government. From 1993 to 1994 Illarionov was the head of the Analysis and Planning Group of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and the Government of Russia, Viktor Chernomyrdin, after which he went on to become the vice-president of the Leontyev International Social and Economic Research Centre, and director of the Moscow division. He has created the Institute for Economic Analysis and was its director from 1994 to 2000. Illarionov had called for a sharp devaluation of the Russian ruble before the August 1998 financial meltdown to prevent it. On 12 April 2000, Illarionov assumed the office of Vladimir Putin's senior economic adviser within the Russian presidential administration and in May 2000 he became the personal representative of the Russian president (sherpa) in the G8. He played an important role in introducing the low 13% flat income tax in Russia, in repaying the Russian foreign debt, in creation the petroleum revenues-based Stabilization Fund of the Russian Federation and in bringing Russia's full-fledged membership in the political G8. On 3 January 2005 Illarionov resigned from his position as presidential representative to the G8. On 27 December 2005, Illarionov offered his resignation in protest against the government course, saying that Russia was no longer politically free, but ran by an authoritarian elite. "It is one thing to work in a country that is partly free. It is another thing when the political system has changed, and the country has stopped being free and democratic," he said. In October 2006, Illarionov was appointed senior researcher of the Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity of the US libertarian think tank Cato Institute in Washington, DC. On 14 April 2007, and 9 June 2007, Illarionov took part in opposition Dissenters' Marches in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, respectively. Illarionov is one of the 34 first signatories of the online anti-Putin manifesto "Putin must go", published on 10 March 2010.