LI
Chuanxun (Heilongjiang
Univeristy, China)
"Political and Economic Relations among Neighbor
Regions of China and Russia in Recent Years," November 27, 2002.
Geoffrey Jukes (University of
Melbourne, Australia) "The Russo-Japanese War
and Its Consequences,"
January 29, 2003.
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye
(Brock University, Canada) "Do the Archives Change
the Story? A New
Look at the Origins of the Russo-Japanese War," January 30, 2003.
Igor V. Lukoianov (Institute
of Russian History, Russia) "'Bezobrazovtsy': The
Path of Russia to the
War with Japan," January 30, 2003.
Anatolii V. Remnev (Omsk State
University, Russia)
"Administrative Collapse of Empire: The Far Eastern
Viceroyalty and Problem of United Government," January 30, 2003.
David Wolff (Woodrow Wilson
Center, USA) "Not
So Neutral: Employing Chinese for Intelligence during
the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-05" January 30, 2003.
Dmitrii B. Pavlov (Moscow City
Association of Archives, Russia) "All-Russian Socialist
Parties and the
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905," January 30, 2003.
John Steinberg (Georgia
Southern University, USA) "The Operational
Performance of the Imperial
Russian Officer Corps in the Russo-Japanese War," January 31,
2003.
Aleksandr I. Kostanov (Archival
Affairs Department, Administration of Sakhalin Region, Russia)
"Documentary
Sources on History of Northern Sakhalin in 1904-1945 in
Russian Archives," January 31, 2003.
Arbakhan Magomedov
(Ul'ianovsk State Technical University, Russia) "Caspian Pipeline
Routes and Political Situations in the Caucasian Relating Countries,"
February 1, 2003.
Tat'iana Leont'eva (Tver State
University, Russia) "The Orthodox Faith and
Reforms in Russia: Factors
of Failures in Reforms (19th - early 20th Centuries)," February
17,
2003.
Bruce A. Elleman (Center for
Naval Warfare Studies, USA) "Wilson and China: The
Shandong Question
and Japan," May 22, 2003.
Elizabeth Wishnick (Lingnan
University, Hong Kong) "Integration or
Disintegration? The Russian Far
East and the Asian Economy," June 12, 2003.
Michael Gordin (Harvard
University, USA) "Mendeleev,
Dostoevsky, and Spiritualism," June 25,
2003.
Bruno Drewski (National
Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations, France)
"Transitions of
the Former Socialist Countries of Central and Eastern
Europe: Similarities and Differentiations," October 2, 2003.
Evgeny P. Bazhanov (Foreign
Ministry of Russia) "Russia and the Iraq
War," October 17, 2003.
Natalia E. Bazhanova (Institute
of Oriental Studies, RAS, Russia) "Russia and the North
Korean Nuclear
Crisis," October 17, 2003.
Leonid Gorizontov (Institute of
Slavic Affaires, RAS, Russia) "The Interior of Russia
and Its Symbolic
Image in the Russian Social Consciousness in the 19th to early 20th
Centuries," October 30, 2003.
Boris Afonin (Institute of
History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East,
RAS, Russia) "Geo-political
and Economical Factors for the Development
of the Russian Far East," November 7, 2003.
Vladimir Kozhevnikov (Niigata
Sangyo University, Japan) "The Political Situation in Primorskii krai
on the Eve of the Congress Election," November 7, 2003.
Bruno Dallago (The University
of Torento, Italy) "Small
and Medium Enterprise in Transitional
Economies: Achievements, Problems, and Cases of Russia and Hungary,"
December 10, 2003.