Viktor I. Kharlamov (Russian State Library, Moscow): "Book,
Censor and Reading in Pre-revolutionary Russia," January 24, 1996. Krister Wahlback (Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs):
"Current Relations between Russia and Northern Europe," February 16,
1996. Eva Ehrlich (Institute of International Economics, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences): "Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe,"
February 19, 1996. A. Kara-Murza (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of
Sciences): "Russia in the Triangle 'Ethnocracy - Empire - Nation',"
March 7, 1996. O. Tuma (Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of
Sciences): "Problems of 20th Century Czech History," March 18, 1996. E.V. Gudkova (Economic
Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch):
"Conversion of the Military-Industry Complex in the Russian Far East,"
March 25, 1996. Arnold McMillin (Faculty of Slavic & East European Studies,
London University): "Russian Language of the Third Wave of Emigrants,"
April 22,
1996.
Milan Horalek (Research Institute of Labor and Social Affairs, Prague):
"Transborder Labor Migration in Central and Eastern Europe," May 9,
1996. I.M. Gorembiovskii (Izvestiia, Moscow): "The Political
Situation in Russia and the Presidential Election," May 21, 1996. Vladimir Ivanov (Institute of World Economy and International
Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences); Andrei Rodionov (The Russian
Trade Representative in Japan): "The Climate of Investment in the
Russian Far East," June 5, 1996. Alaksandar Petrov (Institute for Literature & Arts
Belgrade): "Nationalism in Former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe,"
August 28, 1996. George Schopflin (School of Slavonic and East European Studies,
University of London): "Language and Ethnicity in Central and Eastern
Europe: Some
Theoretical Aspects," September 24, 1996. Radovan Vukadinovic (Zagreb University, Croatia): "New
Dimensions of Security in South Eastern Europe," September 24, 1996. Geoffrey Jukes (Center for Middle Eastern and Central Asian
Studies, Australia): "How Much was Stalin Surprised by the German
Invasion?," September 24, 1996. Gerhard Simon (Bundesinstitut fur Ostwissenschaftliche und
Internationale Studien, Cologne, Germany): "Are the Russians a Nation?
Remarks on the Crisis of Identity in Russia," September 24, 1996. Richard Ruzicka (Charles University, Czech Republic):
"Contemporary Changes in the Czech Republic from the Point of View of
Sociology," October 23, 1996.