Academics and scientists from the Academies of Science, scientific institutes, and research centres of Russia and Vietnam will participate in the plenary session to share their visions of how to build a national image and how this image can affect partnerships with others. They will also consider co-operation in education and the mutual interest that exists between representatives of scientific circles and higher education in both countries.

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Sergey Naryshkin — Chairman, Russian Historical Society (video message)

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Konstantin Mogilevsky — Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (video message)

Welcome Remarks:
Ruslan Gagkuev — Chairman of the Board of the Russian Historical Society, Executive Director of the History of the Fatherland Foundation
Nguyen Duc Minh — Vice President, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Boris Korobets — Rector, Far Eastern Federal University
Chau Van Minh — President, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology
Yang Zheng Quan — President, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences

Moderators:
Nikolay Kradin — Director of the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Council of the RIO Branch in Primorsky Territory
Yury Kulchin — Chairman, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Speakers:
Alexey Maslov — Director, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Vitaly Naumkin — Scientific Director, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Irina Popova — Director, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nguyen Hung Vuong — Dean of the Faculty of International Relations, University of Da Nang

Academics and scientists from the Academies of Science, scientific institutes, and research centres of Russia and Vietnam will participate in the plenary session to share their visions of how to build a national image and how this image can affect partnerships with others. They will also consider co-operation in education and the mutual interest that exists between representatives of scientific circles and higher education in both countries.

Moderators:
Nikolay Kradin — Director of the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Council of the RIO Branch in Primorsky Territory
Yury Kulchin — Chairman, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Speakers:
Le Bo Linh — Member of the Central Theoretical Council of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Editor-in-Chief of the Problems of World Politics and Economics Journal, Editor-in-Chief of the Vietnam Economic Review Journal
Dmitry Mosyakov — Director of the Centre for Southeast Asia, Australia, and Oceania at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Bui Thanh Nam — Chairman of the Board of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities At Vietnam National University
Nguyen Chien Thang — Director General of the Institute for European Studies of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences

The session will focus on history, politics, and security. Scholars from the two countries will present the results of their research on key historical events that not only affected Russia and Vietnam, but a number of other Asian countries as well. There will also be an important discussion about the current dynamics of Russian-Vietnamese relations and prospects for their future. The conference will feature a presentation of a collection of documents prepared by the Russian Federal Archival Agency titled ‘The USSR and Vietnam during the Second Indochina War. 1959–1975’.

Moderators:
Nguyen An Ha — Expert, Institute of European Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Viktor Larin — Vice Chairman, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Speakers:
Nguyen Huu Anh Vuong — Chair of the Department of Science and International Relations at the Institute of Foreign Languages of the University of Da Nang
Nguyen Anh Nam — Researcher at the Russian and CIS Studies Centre of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Director of the Representative Office of Far Eastern Federal University in Vietnam, European Studies Institute of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences the Far Eastern Federal University
Ekaterina Astafieva — Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nguyen Van Long — Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at the Institute of Foreign Languages of the University of Da Nang
Valentin Golovachev — Candidate of Historical Sciences, Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nikolay Goryachev — Senior Research Fellow, Center for Global and Regional Studies, Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Expert, Pacific Affairs Council of the Kingdom of Tonga and Tahiti
Andrey Kozinets — Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Far Eastern Federal University
Bui Hoang Ngoc Linh — Deputy Dean of the Russian Language Faculty at the Institute of Foreign Languages of the University of Da Nang
Anna Simonenok — Research Fellow at the Global and Regional Studies Centre, International and Regional Security Sector at the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East at the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The session will feature discussions of the history of cooperation between Russia and Vietnam in science and education and prospects for its further development. Representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute for European Studies of the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, and employees of higher education institutions in Russia and Vietnam will share the results of their research with the conference participants. The participants will pay extensive attention to issues concerning the history, current stage, and prospects for joint research in the natural sciences, as well as aspects of cooperation between the two countries in education.

Moderators:
Tran Tuan Anh — Vice President of Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
Grigory Dolgikh — Director of the Ilychev Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Speakers:
Andrey Goncharov — Director of the Federal Scientific Centre of East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity at the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Pavel Dmitrenok — Director of the Elyakov Pacific Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Pham Duc Thinh — Director of the Nhatrang Institute of Scientific Research and Applied Technology at the Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology
Konstantin Lutayenko — Deputy Director of the National Scientific Marine Biology Centre of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Pham Minh Quan — Deputy Director of the Institute of Chemistry of Natural Compounds at the Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology
Tran Hong Quang — Chair of the Marine Medicine Department at the Institute of Marine Biochemistry of the Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology
Marina Shtets — Chair of the Department of International Relations at the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The session will focus on history, politics, and security. Scholars from the two countries will present the results of their research on key historical events that not only affected Russia and Vietnam, but a number of other Asian countries as well. There will also be an important discussion about the current dynamics of Russian-Vietnamese relations and prospects for their future. The conference will feature a presentation of a collection of documents prepared by the Russian Federal Archival Agency titled ‘The USSR and Vietnam during the Second Indochina War. 1959–1975’.

Moderators:
Nguyen Duc Minh — Vice President, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Viktor Larin — Vice Chairman, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Speakers:
Zhanna Bazhenova — Scientific Secretary, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Far- Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Viktor Burlakov — Associate Professor of the Department of Pacific Asia, Director of the Foreign Regional Studies Educational Programme at Far Eastern Federal University, Institute of Oriental Studies and School of Regional and International Studies
Aleksandr Vorontsov — Member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Korea and Mongolia Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Yelena Goryacheva — Senior Researcher, Global and Regional Studies Centre, Sector of International and Regional Security, Laboratory of Asian and Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir Kolotov — Professor, Head of the Department of History of the Far East, St. Petersburg State University
Valery Mishin — Research Fellow at the Global and Regional Studies Centre, International and Regional Security Sector at the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East at the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Yegor Razumov — Junior Researcher at the Global and Regional Studies Centre, Sector of International and Regional Security, Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Lee Sangmin — Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Visiting Researcher at the Institute for Russian Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Alexander Sokolovsky — Associate Professor of the Pacific Asia Department at Far Eastern Federal University, Institute of Oriental Studies and School of Regional and International Studies

The session will feature discussions of the history of cooperation between Russia and Vietnam in science and education and prospects for its further development. Representatives of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute for European Studies of the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, and employees of higher education institutions in Russia and Vietnam will share the results of their research with the conference participants. The participants will pay extensive attention to issues concerning the history, current stage, and prospects for joint research in the natural sciences, as well as aspects of cooperation between the two countries in education.

Moderators:
Do Van Manh — Director of the Institute of Science and Technology for Energy and Environment at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
Grigory Dolgikh — Director of the Ilychev Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Speakers:
Diana Vladimirova — Chair of the Pacific Asia Department at the Institute of Oriental Studies and School of Regional and International Studies of Far Eastern Federal University
Kirill Ganzey — Director of the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Do Huy Cuong — Director of the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics of the Vietnam Academy of Sciences
Alexandr Rabotkevich — Director of the Archives of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Maxim Syunnerberg — Associate Professor in the Department of History of the Far East and Southeast Asia at the Institute of Asian and African Countries of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Le Thanh Ha — Chairperson of the Board of the University of Labour and Social Affairs
Nguyen Hoai Nam — Deputy Director of the Institute of Science and Technology for Energy and Environment of the Vietnam Academy of Sciences and Technology
Renat Shakirov — Deputy Director of the Ilychev Pacific Oceanological Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences