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Baltic Rim Economies – a list of writers The following expert articles have been published in the previous reviews: Review Author(s) Position Title of article 1/2021 Krista Mikkonen Minister of the Environment and Climate

Change, Ministry of the Environment, Finland

State of the Baltic Sea is a priority to the Finnish government

1/2021 Minna Arve Mayor, City of Turku, Finland

Sustainability as the policy framework

1/2021 Brita Bohman Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law, Department of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden

Updating the Baltic Sea Action Plan

1/2021 Anna Törnroos Assistant Professor (tenure track), Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

The Decade for oceans and humanity

1/2021 Mati Kahru Ph.D., Researcher, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USA

The changing Baltic Sea

1/2021 Karoliina A. Koho Dr., Project Officer, BONUS Secretariat (EEIG), Helsinki, Finland

Towards a “green” future of the Baltic Sea

1/2021 Maciej Zalewski European Regional Centre For Ecohydrology PAS, UNESCO Chair on Ecohydrology and Applied Ecology, Łódź, Poland

Green Deal – Ecohydrological nature-based solutions for improvement of Baltic ecological status

1/2021 Aija Caune Mikhail Durkin Nils Höglund

Chairperson, Coalition Clean Baltic Executive Secretary, Coalition Clean Baltic Fisheries Policy Officer, Coalition Clean Baltic

Hope, stability and protection

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1/2021 Hannu Klemola Areal Manager, Finnish Association for Nature Conservation (FANC), Finland

Vulnerable sea needs voluntary work to support common vision

1/2021 Liene Gaujeniete Spatial Planning Expert, EUSBSR PA Spatial Planning Coordinator, VASAB Secretariat, Riga, Latvia

Maritime spatial planning for improved environment in the Baltic Sea

1/2021 Kalervo Väänänen Professor, Rector Emeritus, University of Turku, Finland

Recycling is a key to the sustainable marine ecology and economy

1/2021 Tarja Haaranen Director General, Ministry of the Environment, Finland

Blue bioeconomy – a sustainable path for resource utilisation

1/2021 Kirsi Kostamo Minna Pekkonen

Development Manager, Biodiversity Centre, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland Coordinator, Biodiversity Centre, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland

Offsetting – new possibilities for sustainable economic growth?

1/2021 Staffan Lund Agr., Waterdrive Coordinator, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Sweden

Reaching further for cleaner water and rural development

1/2021 Liisa Pietola Head of Environmental Affairs, Central Union of Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners MTK, Finland

Climate change challenges water protection in agriculture

1/2021 Katarzyna Fidler Project Manager, Baltic Sea Conservation Foundation (BaltCF), Germany

Is Estonia’s timber industry barking up the wrong tree?

1/2021 Mikko Jokinen Environmental Director Emeritus, City of Turku, Finland Long Term Co-Chair in UBC Sustainable Cities Commission

Is COVID-19 driven shutdown of Danish fur industries alarming signal for the Baltic Sea eutrophication?

1/2021 Jukka Mehtonen Senior Expert, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Helsinki, Finland

Better management of hazardous chemicals

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1/2021 Noora Perkola Leading Researcher, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland

Reducing pharmaceutical emissions to Baltic Sea

1/2021 Jorma Kämäräinen Chief Adviser, D.Sc., Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom), Finland

IMO regulations and winter navigation

1/2021 Joacim Johannesson Senior Advisor, Marine Spatial Planning Unit, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Sweden Co-chair, HELCOM-VASAB Maritime Spatial Planning Working Group

Baltic Sea regional cooperation for better maritime spatial planning

1/2021 Sari Repka Project Manager, University of Turku, Finland

Maritime governance and shipping

1/2021 Jouni Lappalainen Valtteri Laine

Dr., Head of Team, Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom, Finland Capt., Special Adviser, Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom, Finland

Risk management in maritime transport in the Baltic Sea demands committed regional cooperation

1/2021 Rami Metsäpelto CEO, Fintraffic VTS, Finland

Safe and smoothly running maritime transport requires a shared digital situational awareness

1/2021 Ida-Maja Hassellöv Professor of Maritime Environmental Science, Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Sweden

Increased environmental pressure from ships

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1/2021 Henrik Ringbom Professor of Maritime Law, University of Turku, Finland Head of Research, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Professor II, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, Norway

Why are we so timid on ship-source pollution?

1/2021 Dani Lindberg Sustainability Manager, Viking Line Abp, Finland

Tackling food waste, a shipping company’s perspective

1/2021 Rasmus Uglebjerg With Josefine Eva Lilly Pallesen

Policy Area Coordinator, EUSBSR PA Ship, Denmark Policy Area Coordinator, EUSBSR PA Ship, Denmark

Sustainable shipping in the Baltic Sea Region

1/2021 Jukka-Pekka Jalkanen

Senior Researcher, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

Future path for shipping fraught with peril?

1/2021 Nerijus Blažauskas Dr., Senior Researcher, Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda, Lithuania

Marine research boosts the marine economy in Lithuania

1/2021 Marko Takala Project Manager, CoastNET LIFE, Parks & Wildlife, Finland

CoastNET LIFE offers cost-effectiveness in nature management

1/2021 Jaakko Ruola Kari Veijonen

Content Director, Operation Archipelago Sea, Finland Project Director, Operation Archipelago Sea, Finland

Finland’s national treasure the Archipelago Sea is in danger

1/2021 Maija Mussaari FM, Conservation Biologist, Parks & Wildlife Finland, Finland

Building up biodiversity capital

1/2021 Anne-Marget Hellén Director of Tourism, Visit Turku, Finland

Sustainable tourism requires cooperation

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1/2021 Juulia Räikkönen Ilari E. Sääksjärvi

Adjunct Professor, Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Turku, Turku School of Economics and Biodiversity unit, Finland Professor, Director of the Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, Finland

Biodiversity research and science tourism

1/2021 Hanna-Mari Kuhmonen

Senior Specialist, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment of Finland, Finland

Sustainable tourism in archipelagos

1/2021 Tiina Rinne-Kylänpää

Communication and Developing Manager, City of Naantali, Finland

Naantali – a gateway to the archipelago

1/2021 Katriina Siivonen Adjunct Professor, University Lecturer, University of Turku, Finland Futures Research Centre, Finland

Cultural sustainability in the archipelago

1/2021 James Simpson Project Manager, St. Olav Waterway, Finland

St. Olav Waterway – A European cultural route through the Archipelago

1/2021 Heidi Arponen Marine Conservation Biologist, Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife Finland, Finland

Mapping the underwater nature provides tools for the marine conservation and management of marine protected areas

1/2021 Mikael Westerlund Chief Business Activist, Origin by Ocean, Finland

Towards a natural balance of ocean life, with innovation and eco-system partners

1/2021 Sander Loite Jonne Kotta

Senior Specialist, Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Estonia Research Professor, Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Estonia

Profitable mussel farms can clean up the Baltic Sea – just a dream or the real deal?

1/2021 Markku Saiha CEO, Paapuuri Oy, Finland

Herring with driftnets

1/2021 Markku Lappalainen

Journalist & non-fiction writer, specialized on nature, freelancer, Finland

Eagles and seals are back, but the sea is still feeling bad

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1/2021 Minna Pappila Charlotta Zetterberg

Dr., Senior Researcher, University of Turku, Finland Professor of Environmental Law, University of Uppsala, Sweden

Ecological compensations as an emerging protection tool

1/2021 Minna Sarvi Research Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Finland

Towards sustainability in manure and nutrient use

1/2021 Penina Blankett Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of the Environment, Finland

VELMU data have many uses

1/2021 Sari Luostarinen Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Finland

Manure data as a prerequisite to its sustainable use

1/2021 Kirsi Ahlman Deputy Director, Centrum Balticum Foundation, Finland

Protection Fund for the Archipelago Sea finances concrete water protection actions

4/2020 Thomas Bareiß

MdB, Parliamentary State Secretary Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy Federal Republic of Germany

EU tourism: Through the crisis and beyond

4/2020 Catherine Trautmann

European Coordinator of the North Sea-Baltic Corridor Former Minister and Member of the European Parliament

The EU Green Deal: A call for an ambitious TEN-T policy

4/2020 Ville Tavio

Member Parliament of Finland

Chairperson of the Finns Party Parliamentary Group Finland

Nordic EU criticism rising

4/2020 Grzegorz M. Poznański

Director General Permanent Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States Stockholm, Sweden

Towards the true Balticness

4/2020 Dirk Schuebel

Ambassador Head of the EU Delegation to Belarus

EU-Belarus relations in full crisis mode

4/2020 Thomas Beyer

Mayor Hanseatic City of Wismar Germany

Wismar – aspiring world heritage city on the Baltic Sea coast

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4/2020 Marc Ozawa

Senior Researcher NATO Defense College

Biden’s response to Russia

4/2020 Julia Berghofer

Policy Fellow European Leadership Network (ELN) Germany

A revival of transatlantic relations under Biden?

4/2020 Alexander Graef

Dr., Researcher Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy University of Hamburg (IFSH) Germany

Enhancing military confidence between NATO and Russia

4/2020 Juhana Aunesluoma

Dr., Director Centre for European Studies University of Helsinki Finland

European security after Trump: Germany at the crossroads

4/2020 Michael B. Petersen

Director Russia Maritime Studies Institute United States Naval War College USA

The Baltic Sea in Russia’s maritime Strategy

4/2020 Christian Bluth

Dr., Senior Expert (for Globalisation, International Economics and Trade Policy) Bertelsmann Stiftung Germany

The EU and weaponised economic interdependence

4/2020 Julian Pawlak

Research Associate Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University (ISPK) and its adjunct Center for Maritime Strategy & Security Germany

The Baltic Sea region in another period of great power competition

4/2020 Ben Hodges

LTG (Ret), Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) Washington, USA

Preventing great power conflict in the Black Sea region

4/2020 Kurt-Christian Scheel

Dr., Managing Director Business unit “Government & Society” German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) Germany

Automotive industry – challenged on three fronts

4/2020 Tom Pippingsköld

CFO Finnlines Plc Finland

EU state-aid – A hidden capital market anomaly

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4/2020 Alexander Ebner

Chair of Political Economy and Economics Sociology Director Schumpeter Center for Innovation and Public Policy Goethe University Frankfurt Germany

Innovation in Germany: Strengths and challenges

4/2020 Konrad Rojek

Strategic Business Intelligence and Internationalization Expert B.I.R.S. Poland

Ph.D. Candidate Kazimierz Pułaski University of Technology and Humanities Radom, Poland

Germany's international competitiveness - economy and innovation

4/2020 Juha Kontio

Dr., Dean Faculty of Engineering and Business Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland

Active RDI in Baltic Sea region – Case TUAS

4/2020 Wolfgang Ketter

Professor, Director Institute of Energy Economics Director Cologne Institute for Information Systems University of Cologne Germany

AI-automated energy markets and the EU Green Deal

4/2020 Julia Kusznir

Karen Smith Stegen

Postdoctoral Fellow Bremen Energy Research Jacobs University Bremen Germany Professor of Political Science Jacobs University Bremen Germany

The European Green Deal’s hydrogen strategy and EU energy issues

4/2020 Pao-Yu Oei

Dr., Head, Research Group CoalExit TU Berlin Germany

Germany’s Coal Exit Law: Too late and too expansive

4/2020 Lutz Mez

Private Lecturer Freie Universität Berlin Germany

Status and perspectives of “Energiewende” in Germany

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4/2020 Johan Nordensvärd

Frauke Urban

Senior Lecturer Political Science Linköpings universitet Sweden Associate Professor Unit of Sustainability Industrial Dynamics and Entrepreneurship (SIDE) Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan Sweden

Why the German energy transition keeps on stuttering

4/2020 Mindaugas Navikas

KN Chief Sales Officer Klaipėdos nafta Lithuania

Emerging role of Lithuanian LNG terminal

4/2020 Anna Satovuori

Annika Kunnasvirta

Project Coordinator Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland Project Manager Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland

Towards electric urban transport

4/2020 Hilmar Schneider

Professor, Dr., Director Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) Bonn, Germany

At risk to get out of balance

4/2020 Gisela Färber

Professor Emerita for Public Finance German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer Germany

Director Research Centre for Civil Service German Research Institute for Public Administration Speyer Germany

The labour market integration of refugees in Germany

4/2020 Jens Boysen-Hogrefe

Professor, Dr., Deputy Head of the Research Center Business Cycles and Growth The Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel) Kiel, Germany

Fiscal policy response during COVID-19 in Germany

4/2020 Birgit Glorius

Dr., Professor of Human Geography with Focus on European Migration Research Chemnitz University of Technology Germany

Covid19 and international migration

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4/2020 Thomas Straubhaar

Professor of Economics University of Hamburg Germany

Postcoronomics

4/2020 Florian Schröder

Executive Board Member German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce (AHK) Latvia

Baltic innovations help to combat Covid-19

4/2020 Hubert Ertl

Professor, Dr. Vice President and Director of Research Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) Germany

Challenges and opportunities: The German training system in Corona times

4/2020 Philipp Piroth

Edith Rüger-Muck

Ph.D. Candidate Faculty II Marketing and HR Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, Germany Professor of Marketing and Vice President for International Affairs and Diversity Faculty II Marketing and HR Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, Germany

Online grocery shopping in Germany: From zero to hero?

4/2020 Martin Keim

Henning Kehr

Dr., Professor for Foreign Trade and International Economic Relations Hochschule Worms/University of Applied Sciences Worms Germany Dr., Professor for Economics and Foreign Trade Consulting and Vice-President of the UAS Worms Hochschule Worms/University of Applied Sciences Worms Germany

FDIs and the amended German foreign trade law

4/2020 Sebastian Uhrich

Ph.D., Professor of Sport Business Administration German Sport University Cologne Germany

Maintaining economic growth: The internationalization of Germany’s professional football

4/2020 Max Hogeforster

Dr., Chairman Baltic Sea Academy Germany

Challenges and support of business transfers in the Baltic Sea Region

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4/2020 Jan Feller

Dr., Managing Director German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce (AHK Finnland / Saksalais-Suomalainen Kauppakamari) Helsinki, Finland

Corona changes Germany – good news for Finland

4/2020 Jarkko Heinonen

Director of Business and Economic Development City of Uusikaupunki, Finland

City of Uusikaupunki and its linkage with the German economy

4/2020 Christopher M.

Schmidt

Professor of German language and literature Åbo Akademi University Finland

Finnish challenges in doing business with Germany

4/2020 Margit Breckle

Joachim Schlabach

Lecturer Hanken School of Economics Vaasa, Finland Lecturer University of Turku Turku School of Economics Turku, Finland

Languages required for business contacts with Germany

4/2020 Laura Hirvi

Dr., Director Finnland-Institut in Deutschland | The Finnish Institute in Germany one of the seventeen Finnish Academic and Cultural Institutes worldwide Germany

Fostering dialogue across the Baltic Sea

4/2020 Luise Liefländer-Leskinen

Dr. Phil., Head Association of Finnish – German societies in Finland (SSYL) Finland

Adjunct Professor em. University of Eastern Finland / University of Turku Finland

Finland and Germany – let us empower their relations again…

4/2020 Heidi Hein-Kircher

PD Dr., Head of Department Academic Forum PI CRC 138 “Dynamics of Security” and LOEWE Research Cluster “Regions of Conflict in Eastern Europe” Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Member of the Leibniz-Association Marburg, Germany

Historical legacies within a European conflict region

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4/2020 Mika Kallioinen

University Lecturer University of Turku Finland

The medieval Hansa as a monopoly

4/2020 Jürgen Matthes

Head of International Economics and Economic Outlook, German Economic Institute (Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft) Germany

More robust EU trade policy towards China needed

4/2020 Anna-Sophie Maass

Dr., Lecturer in International Relations and Diplomacy Department of Politics Philosophy and Religion Lancaster University UK

Tensions in EU-Russian diplomatic relations

4/2020 Alexander Libman

Vladimir Kozlov

Professor of Russian and East European Politics Free University of Berlin Germany Associate Professor National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia

Historical roots of alcohol mortality in Russia

4/2020 Peter Holicza

Ph.D., Lead Researcher Society, Informatics and Business Research Group Óbuda University Budapest, Hungary

The effects of international learning mobility on Russian participants

4/2020 Yoji Koyama

Professor Emeritus Niigata University Japan

The Baltic States viewed from the Far East

4/2020 Lars Fredrik Stöcker Ph.D., Researcher Institute of East European History/Research Centre for the History of Transformations University of Vienna Austria

“The East-Europeanization of Estonian Politics”

4/2020 Kari Liuhto Professor, Director Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics

Germany: A global trader with a European focus

3/2020 Andrius Kubilius Member of the European Parliament Former Prime Minister of Lithuania

Belarus: Yesterday and tomorrow

3/2020 Tom Dodd Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Republic of Finland

The UK in Europe: Context, present and future

3/2020 Piotr Rychlik Ambassador of Poland to Finland Strategic investments in Baltic Sea area – the Polish perspective

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3/2020 Cheon Joonho Ambassador of South Korea to Finland How Korea turns a pandemic into an opportunity

3/2020 Younghoon Kwaak Founder President KWAAK ESPRI South Korea

My visioning and implementing efforts for Korea’s miraculous development between 1969 and 2019

3/2020 Jin Kyo Suh Senior Research Fellow Korea Institute for International Economic Policy South Korea

The way forward for WTO reform

3/2020 Janne Suutarinen Journalist Kauppalehti Finland

The EU must sort out its foreign policy mess

3/2020 Ülari Alamets Merike Niitepõld

Project Manager Central Baltic programme The Regional Council of Southwest Finland, Finland Head of Managing Authority Central Baltic programme The Regional Council of Southwest Finland Finland

Central Baltic result orientation!

3/2020 Marko Palokangas Military Professor (Military Theory and Warfare) Lieutenant Colonel National Defence University Finland

Security implications of the situation in Belarus

3/2020 Rein Oidekivi Research Fellow ICDS Estonia

Address: Belarus, Europe

3/2020 David R. Marples Distinguished Professor University of Alberta Canada

The Belarusian awakening

3/2020 Olga Dryndova Editor “Belarus-Analysen” Research Centre for East European Studies University of Bremen Germany

Protests in Belarus: Why now and what is different this time?

3/2020 Anna Maria Dyner Analyst The Polish Institute of International Affairs Poland

Consequences of the presidential election in Belarus

3/2020 Kamil Klysinski Expert on Belarusian Affaires Centre for Eastern Studies Warsaw Poland

Belarus after elections: The subjects become citizens

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3/2020 Thomas M. Bohn Professor of East European History Justus Liebig University Giessen Germany

“Long live Belarus!” and “Go away!” - slogans of the white-red-white revolution

3/2020 Rikard Jozwiak Europe Editor, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Prague The Czech Republic

Belarus sanctions – The EU’s symbolic response

3/2020 Aisha Jung Senior Campaigner Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office International Secretariat Amnesty International London UK

In front of every great man is a great woman

3/2020 Jakob Wöllenstein Director Belarus Office (based in Vilnius, Lithuania) Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Germany

At a turning point: Konrad-Adenauer- Stiftung in Belarus

3/2020 Konstantin V. Kozadaev Alexander V. Zhuk

D.Sc., Professor, Vice-Rector of BSU for Education and International Relations Belarus State University (BSU) Belarus Head Department of International Relations of BSU Belarus State University (BSU) Belarus

From words to deeds

3/2020 Grigory Ioffe Professor Radford University Radford, Virginia USA

The tug-of-war for Belarus’s memory

3/2020 Andrej Kotljarchuk Ph.D., Associate Professor School of Historical and Contemporary Studies Södertörn University Sweden

A Cinderella of Europe: Understanding the political history of Belarus

3/2020 Kate Marchuk Investor Relations Manager Great Stone Industrial Park Administration Republic of Belarus

Great Stone Industrial Park: On the way to success

3/2020 Irina Malgina Associate Professor, Ph. D. (Economics) The Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Belarus Belarus

Strategy for entrepreneurship development until 2030 in Belarus

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3/2020 Justinas Juozaitis Policy Analyst Centre for the Defence Analysis General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania

Lithuanian nuclear diplomacy gains momentum

3/2020 Margarita Assenova Senior Fellow The Jamestown Foundation Washington, DC USA

Gloom and doom over Nord Stream 2

3/2020 Stanislav Zhiznin Professor, Department of World Energy Problems Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) Moscow President Center for Energy Diplomacy and Geopolitics Moscow Russia

Economics and geopolitics of Nord Stream-2 in the Baltic Rim

3/2020 James Henderson Director Gas Programme Oxford Institute for Energy Studies The United Kingdom

2020 – time for a Gazprom re-think?

3/2020 Katja Yafimava Dr., Senior Research Fellow Natural Gas Research Programme Oxford Institute for Energy Studies The United Kingdom

Nord Stream 2: Delayed but unstoppable

3/2020 Dimitar Lilkov Research Officer Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Brussels Belgium

Nord Stream 2: European energy policy is still a pipe dream

3/2020 Ain Köster Head of Communications Elering, electricity and gas transmission system operator Estonia

Balticconnector opened the Finnish gas market

3/2020 Herkko Plit President and CEO Baltic Connector Oy Finland

Balticconnector and future of energy transfer

3/2020 Mariusz Ruszel D.Sc., Ph.D., Associate Professor Rzeszow University of Technology Poland

The importance of gas infrastructure in the Baltic Sea Region for the V4 countries

3/2020 Danila Bochkarev Senior Fellow EastWest Institute Belgium

Methane emissions: A challenge and an industry response

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3/2020 Olga Garanina Associate Professor Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg University Russia

Russia’s energy and climate policies after Covid-19

3/2020 György Széll Professor Emeritus Institute of Social Sciences University of Osnabrück Germany

Covid-19 and democracy

3/2020 Konstantin Khudoley

Head Department of European Studies School of International Relations Saint Petersburg State University, Russia

Coronavirus and its aftermath

3/2020 Timur Uzbjakov Area Export Manager Vallox Oy Finland

The importance of ventilation

3/2020 Krzysztof Żęgota Ph.D. in Political Science Assistant Professor Institute of Political Science University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn Poland

Attitude of Polish right-wing political parties to development of Polish- Russian relations

3/2020 Pawel Ziemianski Assistant Professor Gdansk University of Technology Poland

Fostering the potential of women in entrepreneurial families

3/2020 Dana Zimmer Ulrich Bathman

Coordinator Leibniz ScienceCampus for Phosphorus Research Rostock, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende (IOW), Germany Speaker Leibniz ScienceCampus for Phosphorus Research Rostock Director Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemuende (IOW), Germany

Phosphorus and the Baltic Sea: A brief review

3/2020 Annemari Andrésen Project Manager of Archipelago Business Development Novia University of Applied Sciences Turku Finland

Cross-border collaboration in the Archipelago

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3/2020 Marta A. Götz Associate Professor Vistula University Warsaw Poland

FDI in the I4.0 era - fortune favours the prepared

3/2020 Thomas Grennes Emeritus Professor of Economics and Agricultural and Resource Economics North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC USA

Amber Tigers and the Baltic population problem

3/2020 Salavat Abylkalikov Senior Lecturer Institute of Demography National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia

Kaliningrad region becomes more sedentary

3/2020 Andrey Mikhaylov Anna Mikhaylova

Dr., Head of the Laboratory for the Geography of Innovation Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia Dr., Senior Research Fellow Center for Baltic Region Studies Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia

North-western cities of Russia in the knowledge landscape of the Baltic region

3/2020 Vasily Astrov Senior Economist The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) Austria

A case for a common economic space from Lisbon to Vladivostok

3/2020 Halina Haurylka Ph.D. (Economics), Associate Professor Department of International Economic Relations Belarus State University

Strategic autonomy of the European Union: Chinese factor

3/2020 Marina F. Tkachenko Ruslan M. Shafiev

Doctor of Economics Professor Head of the Department of International Economic Relations Russian Customs Academy Russia Doctor of Economics, Professor, State Counselor – Civil Service of the Russian Federation of 1st Class Russian Customs Academy Russia

Managing the risks of regionalization of Russia in the context of the development of the EEU

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3/2020 Yuri Lapaiev Deputy Editor-in-Chief The Ukrainian Week/ Tyzhden magazine, Analyst, The Jamestown Foundation, The USA

Resist-unite-win

3/2020 Kari Liuhto Professor, Director Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics

The USA and the Baltic Sea region: No new walls

2/2020 Elina Lepomäki Member of Parliament, National Coalition Party, Finland

Let’s empower the European way

2/2020 Chen Li Chinese Ambassador to Finland China is committed to building an open world economy

2/2020 Vani Rao Ambassador of India to Finland and Estonia, Embassy of India, Helsinki, Finland

India can build tech-partnerships with Finland and Estonia

2/2020 Eija Rotinen Ambassador of Finland to the Republic of Chile

Stable and prosperous Chile in turmoil

2/2020 Jason Tolland Ambassador, Embassy of Canada, Finland

A modest economic proposal: One Canadian’s take on trade relations

2/2020 Facundo Vila Argentine Ambassador to Finland, Estonia and Latvia

Mercosur and the European Union

2/2020 Louise Curran Jappe Eckhardt

Dr., Senior Lecturer, Toulouse Business School, Toulouse, France Dr., Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York, York, United Kingdom

The backlash against economic globalization: How did we get here and what should be done?

2/2020 Petri Vuorio Director of EU Affairs and Trade Policy, Confederation of Finnish Industries EK’s Brussels Office Permanent Delegate, BusinessEurope

Lessons learnt from the 1930s: Protectionism is not the way to exit from the COVID-19 crisis

2/2020 Julia Grübler Economist, Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Austria

COVID-19 is complicating global trade debates

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2/2020 Tobias Gehrke Research Fellow, Egmont: Royal Institute for International Relations, Brussels, Belgium

Economic interdependence after the Corona shock

2/2020 Ari Van Assche Professor of International Business, HEC Montréal and CIRANO, Canada

COVID-19 strains global value chains in more ways than we think

2/2020 Beata Javorcik Chief Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, UK

COVID-19 will revolutionise global supply chains

2/2020 Kent Wilska Commercial Counsellor, Trade Policy Unit, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Finland

Trade policy and labor rights challenges for global value chains

2/2020 William A. Reinsch Senior Adviser and Scholl Chair in International Business, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), USA

A new approach to trade

2/2020 Martin S. Edwards Associate Professor and Department Chair, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, USA

Changing the TPRM: Is less more?

2/2020 Heli Honkapää Commercial Counsellor, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland

New era in trade dispute settlement

2/2020 Bernard Hoekman Petros C. Mavroidis

Professor, European University Institute, Italy Professor, Columbia Law School, The USA

Addressing the dispute settlement crisis at the WTO

2/2020 Sandra Polaski Senior Research Scholar, Global Economic Governance Initiative, Boston University, United States

The WTO in crisis: What does the future hold?

2/2020 Pasi-Heikki Vaaranmaa

Director, Trade Policy Unit, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Finland

Reforming the WTO: Trade rules for the 21st century

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2/2020 Inu Manak Ph.D., Research Fellow, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute, Washington DC, USA

The new NAFTA and the end of U.S. leadership in trade

2/2020 Stormy-Annika Mildner

Dr., Head, Department External Economic Policy, Federation of German Industries, Germany Adjunct Lecturer, Hertie School of Governance, Germany

Protectionism, managed trade, and transactional deals: Trump’s ‘America First’ trade policy

2/2020 K. C. Fung Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA

Future U.S. trade policy towards China

2/2020 Hyeonjung Choi Director and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Governance, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies, Republic of Korea

Hope and despair: The RCEP and the US-China trade war

2/2020 Kari Liuhto Professor, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland Director, Pan-European Institute, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland

China in the global economy before the COVID-19 outbreak

2/2020 Tero Vauraste MSc (Soc), Lt. Cdr (Ret), CEO, Nurminenlogistics Plc., Finland Global Fellow in the Arctic Program, Woodrow Wilson Center, USA Member, Sub-Committee of Maritime Logistics Issues, Finland-China Innovation Committee Former Chairman, Arctic Economic Council

Steely silkroad between China and Europe

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2/2020 Nam Foo Dr., Sessional Lecturer, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin Business School, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Revisiting the impact of China’s One Belt One Road initiative on international trade policy

2/2020 Shihoko Goto Deputy Director for Geoeconomics, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC, USA

Japan’s new trade conundrum amid the pandemic

2/2020 Steven Blockmans Director a.i., CEPS, Brussels, Belgium

EU policy for changing global trade winds

2/2020 Patricia Garcia-Duran Huet Leif Johan Eliasson

Associate Professor, University of Barcelona, Spain Professor, East Stroudsburg University, Pennsylvania, USA

EU trade and investment policy

2/2020 Katharina Meissner Lise-Meitner Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for European Integration Research (EIF), University of Vienna, Austria

The European Parliament: A tough trade negotiator?

2/2020 Shamel Azmeh Dr., Lecturer in International Development, University of Manchester, UK

Europe and the governance of the digital economy

2/2020 Susanne Baker Associate Director, Climate, Environment and Sustainability, techUK, United Kingdom

How trade policy can grow the European green tech sector

2/2020 Nathalie Moll Koen Berden

Director-General, EFPIA, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, Brussels, Belgium Executive Director International Affairs, EFPIA, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, Brussels, Belgium

The EU-UK future relationship from an innovative-medicines perspective

2/2020 Nicholas Perdikis Professor of International Business, Aberystwyth Business School, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK

Post Brexit: What direction for UK trade policy?

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2/2020 Rupert Gather LLB, Group Chief Executive, InvestUK, United Kingdom

Sovereignty and economics

2/2020 Pervez N. Ghauri Professor of International Business, University of Birmingham, Birmingham Business School, United Kingdom

Brexit: What now?

2/2020 Amit Kara Associate Research Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, United Kingdom

UK trade policy after Brexit

2/2020 Markus Kantola Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher, Turku School of Economics, Finland

The British Conservative Party and the EU: Friends or foes?

2/2020 Alicia García-Herrero Jianwei Xu

Bruegel Senior Fellow, Bruegel, Belgium Natixis Chief Economist, APAC, Natixis, France Adjunct Professor, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), China Bruegel Non-Resident Fellow, Bruegel, Belgium Natixis Senior Economist, Greater China, Natixis, France

China and EU’s competition in the Russian market: Much stronger for trade than for investment

2/2020 Nadezda Volovik Head, Foreign Trade Department, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, Russia

Russia-EU trade development under the sanctions

2/2020 Maxim Medvedkov Professor, Head of Department on Trade Policy, Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia

Trade policy and Russia

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2/2020 Iikka Korhonen Head of Research, Bank of Finland, Finland

Sanctions and the Russian economy

2/2020 Sergei Sutyrin Nikita Lomagin

Professor, World Economy Department Head, WTO Chair-Holder, St. Petersburg State University, Russia Professor, World Economy Department, St. Petersburg State University, Russia Former Member of the Public Council, Ministry for Development of Far East and the Arctic, Russia

How the US-China trade war effects Russia

2/2020 Alexey Kuznetsov Acting Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences (INION), Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Russia’s economic turn to the global south

2/2020 Nicholas Ross Smith Associate Professor of International Studies, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China

When the COVID-19 threat subsides, the EU should employ a “Neue Ostpolitik” towards Russia

2/2020 Sergei Sinelnikov Acting Trade Representative of Russia in Finland, Trade representation of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Finland, Finland

Russia and Finland: Searching for new drivers of growth

2/2020 Lauri Veijalainen Chief Executive Officer, East Office of Finnish Industries Oy, Finland

Russia’s rough spring

2/2020 Tatiana Evdokimova

Ph.D., Chief Economist for Russia, Nordea Bank, Finland

Russian economy feeling the pain

2/2020 Evgeny Vinokurov Chief Economist, Eurasian Fund for Stabilization and Development, Eurasian Development Bank

The free trade agreements of the Eurasian Economic Union

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2/2020 Urpo Kivikari Professor Emeritus, Pan-European Institute, University of Turku, Finland

The development of democracy after socialism

2/2020 Peter Havlik Senior Research Associate, The Vienna Institute of International Economic Studies (wiiw), Vienna, Austria

30 years after: Expectations and outcomes

2/2020 Erja Kettunen Adjunct Professor, Affiliated Researcher, Economic Geography, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland

Sustainable development and Free Trade Agreements

2/2020 Peter Kalunda Kiuluku

International Business Consultant, ESAMI – a consulting, training and teaching hub in Africa, Tanzania

Contours of Africa’s new trade policy architecture

2/2020 Anna Karhu Research Manager, Pan-European Institute (PEI), Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland

Turning point in trade policy: Need for multidisciplinary co-operation

1/2020 Eero Suominen Ambassador of Finland to the Republic of Korea

Trade relations between Finland and South Korea: Room for new innovations and cooperation

1/2020 Alexander Gremitskikh

Consul General of Russia in Turku, Finland

Russia, NATO and European security

1/2020 Mikhail G. Zubov Ph.D., Consul of the Russian Federation on the Åland Islands

80 years of the Moscow agreement on Ålands

1/2020 Alexey Gromyko Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director Institute of Europe RAS, Russia

Many strengths, many weaknesses

1/2020 Jacek Karnowski Katarzyna Choczaj

Mayor of Sopot, Poland Marketing and PR Department, City Hall of Sopot, Poland

Sopot (Poland) and its international cooperation in the Baltic Sea region

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1/2020 Mari Kettunen Saimi Hoyer

Chairman of the Board, Hotel Punkaharju, Finland Entrepreneur, Hotel Punkaharju, Finland

The Saimaa phenomenon – The decade of Saimaa is coming

1/2020 Kari Lukka Professor, Accounting and Finance, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland

Memories from Pärnu

1/2020 Pekka Saarinen Owner, CEO, Urbanity Oy, Finland

New way to make a city

1/2020 Tellervo Kylä-Harakka-Ruonala

Vice-President of the Employers’ Group, European Economic and Social Committee

Preparing for the AI era

1/2020 Elena Kolosova Project Officer/Advisor for External Cooperation, Interreg Baltic Sea Region Managing Authority/Joint Secretariat, Latvia

EU Interreg funding for smart ideas in blue growth

1/2020 Jürgen Sorgenfrei Dr., Professor, NBS Northern Business School, Institute of North-European Economic Research, Hamburg, Germany

Next bunker fuels for high seas

1/2020 Torbjörn Becker Director, The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE), Stockholm School of Economic, Sweden

Transition is not a done deal

1/2020 Anne L. Clunan Dr., Associate Professor, Department of National Security Affairs / Naval Postgraduate School, USA

Russia’s trouble with globalisation

1/2020 Andrew Foxall Dr, Director of Research, Director, Russia and Eurasia Studies Centre, Henry Jackson Society, UK

Russia’s post-Soviet transition after twenty years of Putinism

1/2020 Helge Blakkisrud Head of Research Group on Russia, Asia and International Trade, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Norway

Vladimir Putin – a Russian nationalist?

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1/2020 Markku Lonkila Larisa Shpakovskaya Philip Torchinsky

Professor of Sociology, University of Jyväskylä, Finland Researcher, University of Helsinki, Finland Independent IT consultant, Finland

Social media in civic and political activism in Russia

1/2020 Jadwiga Rogoza Senior Fellow, OSW-Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw, Poland

Protests in Russia: Numerous yet dispersed

1/2020 Jussi Lassila Senior Research Fellow, Finnish Institute of International Affairs,

the EUʼs Eastern Neighbourhood and Russia research programme, Finland

From protests to the super years of Russian politics

1/2020 Marcus Prest Journalist, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Russian strangeness

1/2020 Eemil Mitikka Doctoral Researcher, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland

Should we trust Russian surveys?

1/2020 Sinikka Parviainen Dr. (Econ), Analyst, East Office of Finnish Industries, Helsinki, Finland

Corruption and business environment in Russia in the 2010s: Real improvement or make-belief?

1/2020 Stanislav Usachev Head of Strategy and International Co-operation, Yegor Gaidar Foundation, Russia

Yegor Gaidar Foundation activities in the Baltic Region

1/2020 Pia Koivunen Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, European and World History, The School of History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Turku, Finland

Putin’s mega-event boom coming to an end

1/2020 Natalya Volchkova Director, Centre for Economic and Financial Research, New Economic School Moscow, Russia

The export trap of Russian import substitution policies

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1/2020 Laura Solanko Senior Advisor, BOFIT, Bank of Finland, Finland

Will new gas pipelines bring a boost to the Russian economy?

1/2020 Julia Vainio Subject Matter Expert (2017-2020), NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence, Vilnius, Lithuania

Energy security developments in the Russian gas sector

1/2020 Laura Klemetti Viktoria Palm

Project Researcher, Pan-European Institute, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland Research Associate, Institut für Europäische Politik, Germany

The OPAL gas pipeline: A test for EU energy solidarity

1/2020 Hilma Salonen Sohvi Kangasluoma

Doctoral Candidate, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland Doctoral Candidate, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland

New energy trends in the Russian Arctic: Could Russia lead the way in becoming a climate leader?

1/2020 Olga Garanina Anna Abramova

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management, St Petersburg University, Russia Associated Professor, MGIMO-University, Russia

Russia under the sanctions: From energy sector to digitalization

1/2020 Andrey N. Terekhov Stanislav L. Tkachenko

Doctor of Mathematics, Professor of Software Engineering, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia Doctor of Economics, Professor of European Studies, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia

The Russian IT market: Current trends

1/2020 Mariëlle Wijermars Dr., Assistant professor in Cyber-Security and Politics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

The stakes are high for Internet freedom in Russia in 2020

1/2020 Juha Kukkola Captain, M.Soc.Sci, Doctoral Student, Finnish National Defence University, Finland

The Russian sovereign Internet

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1/2020 Ibrahim Al-Marashi Associate Professor, Department of History, California State University San Marcos, USA Visiting Professor, School of Global & Public Affairs IE University, Madrid, Spain

Collective environmental security: Geopolitical links between the Baltic, Black, and the eastern Mediterranean Seas

1/2020 Karoliina Rajala Associate Research Fellow, OSCE Academy

Innovation in the Russian space industry: A military perspective

1/2020 Ann-Mari Sätre Ph.D., Research Director, Associate Professor in Economics, Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies (IRES), Uppsala University, Sweden

Reasons for poverty in Russia

1/2020 Paul Pavitra Dr. (med.), Ph.D.(health economics), Affiliate Researcher, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Co-Convenor, EFFSIG- iHEA, International Health Economics Association

The universality of universal health coverage in the Russian Federation

1/2020 Vasiliy A. Anikin Anastasia V. Karavay

Associate Professor, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Leading Research Fellow, The Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Science, Russia Senior Research Fellow, The Institute of the Social Analysis and Forecasting, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy & Public Administration, Russia Senior Research Fellow, The Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology, Russian Academy of Science, Russia

Human capital in post-transition Russia: Some critical remarks

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1/2020 Peter Holicza Dr., Lead Researcher, Society, Informatics and Business Research Group, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary

Characterization of Russian youth

1/2020 Svetlana Erpyleva Professor, School of Advanced Studies, University of Tyumen, Russia

Children changing politics

1/2020 Elena Omelchenko Director of Centre for Youth Studies, Professor at Department of Sociology, Programme Academic Supervisor “Modern Social Analysis”, St.Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HRU “Higher School of Economics – St. Petersburg”, Russia

Russian youth in XXI century

1/2020 Kristiina Silvan Ph.D. Candidate, University of Helsinki, Finland

Government-organized youth organizations in Russia

1/2020 Jonna Alava Ph.D. Student, University of Helsinki, Finland Researcher, The Finnish National Defence University, Finland

Russia’s Young Army

1/2020 Sirke Mäkinen Hanna Peltonen

Senior Lecturer, Head of the ExpREES Master’s School, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland Coordinator of the ExpREES Master’s School, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland

Training experts in Russian and East European Studies

1/2020 Jekaterina Lindberg Business Advisor, sustainability and market research, Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce, Helsinki, Finland

Russia is reforming its waste system, but can the waste reform Russia?

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1/2020 Moritz Albrecht Valentina Karginova-Gubinova Gleb Iarovoi Taru Peltola

Associate Professor, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Research Associate, Institute of Economics, Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Project Researcher, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Senior Research Scientist, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

Waste as a problem in rural Russia

1/2020 Kaisa Vainio Ph.D. Scholar, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

What can be achieved with intercultural exchange?

1/2020 Eija Schwartz Chair of the Karelian Society in Turku, Doctoral Student in European Ethnology, University of Turku, Finland

Multilocal Karelians in the 2020s

1/2020 Alexander Sergunin Professor of International Relations, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Turning marginality into a competitive advantage: The role of cross-border cooperation

1/2020 Mikhail Karpov Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Asian Studies, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Russian National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia

The gambits of Moscow and Beijing

1/2020 Kari Liuhto Professor, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland Director, Pan-European Institute, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland

The EU continues to dominate Russia’s foreign economic relations, though China’s role is still growing

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5/2019 Tomasz Grodzki MD FETCS, Professor of Thoracic Surgery and Transplantation, Senator of the Republic of Poland

Baltic Sea Region: Where the international cooperation has started far before European Union was created

5/2019 Pat Cox European Coordinator for the Scandinavian-Mediterranean TEN-T Core network corridor, European Commission; DG MOVE, Belgium

Trans-European Transport network: Scandinavia

5/2019 Christer Michelsson Ambassador of Finland to Lithuania and Belarus

On the relations between Finland and Belarus

5/2019 Aleksandra Dulkiewicz

Mayor, City of Gdansk, Poland

Gdańsk: A good place to live

5/2019 Mateusz Sipa Director, Business Development and International Relation Bureau, City of Łódź Office, Poland

Łódź-Warsaw Duopolis: A vision for the (very near) future

5/2019 Anna Golec-Mastroianni

President, Sopot Tourism Organisation, Poland

Tourism in the Baltic Sea region: Bleisure

5/2019 Tanja Raunio CEO & Storyteller, Neiti Raunio Oy, Finland Food Ambassador, Visit Turku, Finland

Finland’s former capital Turku is now the culinary capital

5/2019 Marek Górski Professor, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Szczecin, Poland

Hazardous substances on the seabed

5/2019 Pauliina Forsman Manager, Turku Chamber of Commerce, Finland

How to get to the most beautiful archipelago in the world?

5/2019 Leea Ojala Director of Consultancy, Logscale Ltd., Consulting companies towards compliant and well-managed supply chains, Finland

Circular Economy: A policy block?

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5/2019 Elise Tarvainen Tiina Malste

COO, Isku International, Finland Manager, Learning Design, Finland

Novel approaches to learning environment design

5/2019 Kęstutis Kristinaitis Chairman of the Board, Lithuanian Association of Property and Business Valuation Enterprises, Lithuania

Property valuation in Lithuania

5/2019 Pasi Kostamovaara Chief of Finnish Border Guard, Lieutenant General, Finland

Arctic maritime safety requires cooperation

5/2019 Markku Viitasaari Lieutenant Colonel, Chief of Division, Army Command, Finland

Return to Cold War – or not?

5/2019 Glen Grant Defence and Security Expert, Ukrainian Institute for the Future, Ukraine

Interoperability of the Baltic States against Russia

5/2019 Reinhard Krumm Simon Weiss

Head, FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe, based in Vienna Research Associate, FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe, based in Vienna

Eastern Policy and beyond: For cooperative security and prosperity in Europe

5/2019 Vadim Koroshupov Junior Researcher, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow, Russia

Restoration of a balanced policy with Europe

5/2019 Jussi Orell Senior News Editor, The joint national newsroom Lännen Media, Finland

Baltic Sea Region is an endless source of news

5/2019 Vladimir Zuev Professor, Higher School of Economics Moscow – National Research University, Russia Academic Director, Master in International Trade Policy, Higher School of Economics Moscow – National Research University, Russia

RF Trade Policy between protectionism and liberalization

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5/2019 Sani Kontula-Webb Director, The Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg

The Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg and its role in the Finnish-Russian dialogue

5/2019 Vladimir Kuzin Associate Professor, Director of the Analytical Center, Kaliningrad State Technical University, Russia

The economic situation of the Kaliningrad region

5/2019 Svetlana V. Mareeva Ekaterina D. Slobodenyuk

Head of Center, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia Assistant Professor, Research Fellow, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Inequality in Russia: Challenges for the policy

5/2019 Timo Jaatinen Director General, Finnish Forest Industries Federation, Finland

Restricting trade does not generate investments

5/2019 Yuri Nazarov The Chairman of the Concern, Concern Bellesbumprom, Belarus

Accomplishments and prospects of the woodworking enterprises in the Republic of Belarus

5/2019 Jussi Seppälä Chairman, Finland-Belarus Society, Finland

On cultural exchange between Finland and Belarus

5/2019 Raman Yaniu Chief Communications Officer, Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange, Republic of Belarus

BUCE: Digital bridge between Belarus and BRE

5/2019 Sergey Kulik Dr., Director for International Development, Institute for Contemporary Development (INSOR), Moscow, Russia

Russia: The President’s thirst for technologies

5/2019 Antti Vasanen Head of Information Services, Regional Council of Southwest Finland, Finland

Big Data is not a free lunch

5/2019 Ester Laato President, Finnish-Polish Association in Helsinki, Finland

Polish programmers among the best: What could Finland learn?

5/2019 Lukasz Marcin Jablonski

Founder of Bjorn Global / Head of Growth at BinarApps, Poland

Tips for founders of born global companies grown out of Poland

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5/2019 Anitta Koskio Founder of Fin-Pol Business Club, Executive Coach, Finland

Impact of culture on business

5/2019 Barbara Gaweda Postdoctoral Researcher, Tampere University, Finland

Poland’s national(ist) exclusions

5/2019 Katarzyna Bałandynowicz-Panfil

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Sustainable Market Processes, University of Gdańsk, Poland

The concerns of the ageing of Polish society

5/2019 Anna Karhu Research Manager, Pan-European Institute (PEI), Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland

Changing landscape of retailing

4/2019 Dmytro Kuleba Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration

EU-Ukraine: A Two-way Street

4/2019 Artis Pabriks Dr, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense of Latvia

Latvia’s support for Ukraine is unconditional

4/2019 Oksana Syroyid Co-Chair of Lviv Security Forum and Leader of Samopomich Union Party, Ex-Vice Speaker of the Parliament of Ukraine

The words could save the world from the war

4/2019 Ilkka Kanerva Honorary Minister, Member of the Finnish Parliament (National Coalition Party), Finland

The new dialogue between Russia and Ukraine creates potential momentum

4/2019 Ariana Gic Hanna Hopko Roman Sohn

Independent political and legal analyst and columnist, Canada Former Member of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, former Head of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Verkhovna Rada, Member of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Reforms and the Anti-Corruption Action Centre, Ukraine Legal expert, columnist, and civil society activist, Ukraine

No peace without truth: An honest response to Russian aggression in Ukraine

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4/2019 Vladimir Dubrovskiy

Senior Economist, CASE, Kyiv, Ukraine

Ukraine’s after-election outlook: Heaven or hell?

4/2019 Arseniy Svynarenko Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Lecturer in Ukrainian studies, University of Helsinki

The Ukrainian politics are catching up with changes in a society

4/2019 Roman Horbyk Postdoctoral Fellow, Umeå University, Sweden Senior Lecturer, Södertörn University, Sweden

Transmedia storytelling ushers in new populism in Ukraine

4/2019 Illya Kvas Charge d`Affaires a.i. of Ukraine in Finland Economic cooperation between Ukraine and Finland on an upward trajectory

4/2019 William Taylor Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine

Why Ukraine matters

4/2019 Antti Hartikainen Head, EU Advisory Mission Ukraine

Ukraine should be rich: Why isn’t it?

4/2019 Peter M. Wagner Head, European Commission Support Group for Ukraine, Brussels / Kyiv

Towards a more resilient Ukraine

4/2019 Kateryna Rozhkova Deputy Governor, National Bank of Ukraine, Ukraine

Ukraine: A modern, European financial system

4/2019 Ulana Suprun MD, Acting Minister of Health of Ukraine 2016-2019, Chairman, NGO Arc.UA, Ukraine

The New Global Dark Age

4/2019 Oksana Holovko-Havrysheva

President, Ukrainian European Studies Association, Ukraine

In support of European choice of Ukraine

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4/2019 Mykhaylo Komarnytskyy

Ph.D. (Political Science), Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Diplomacy, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine, Director, Center for American Studies, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine

The Future of US-Ukrainian Strategic Partnership

4/2019 Jan Strzelecki Sociologist, Analyst, Centre for Eastern Studies, Warsaw, Poland

Kremlin’s policy towards Ukraine after Zelenskiy’s victory

4/2019 Viktor Ogneviuk Rector, Sc.D., Professor, Academician, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine

Cooperation in human capital development

4/2019 Mariya Zubrytska Ph.D. (Philology), Professor, Adviser to the Rector in International Projects Development, Vice-Rector for Academic and International Affairs (2014-2019), Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine

Lviv University: Where history meets modernity

4/2019 Iván Farías Pelcastre Alona Anokhina Kateryna Parkhomei

PhD in Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom MA in Society and Politics, Graduate School for Social Research, Poland MA in International Relations, University of Warsaw, Poland

Corruption and reform in education in Ukraine

4/2019 Jarkko Lampiselkä Dr., Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Physics Didactics, University of Helsinki, Finland Adviser for Learning Environments and Principal Standards, Learning Together project, Ukraine

Learning together – Finland’s support to Ukrainian School reform

4/2019 Oleksiy Semeniy Dr., Adviser to the Secretary of the NSDC of Ukraine

Foreign policy of Ukraine: Quo vadis?

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4/2019 Andrzej Fałkowski Dr, Lt. Gen. (Ret.), Member of Defence Reform Advisory Board for Ukraine, Former Deputy Chief of General Staff (DCHoD) of the Polish Armed Forces, Poland

Defence reform in Ukraine: A new impetus

4/2019 Mykhailo Gonchar President, CGS Strategy XXI, Kyiv, Ukraine

Sentsov list: What’s next?

4/2019 Oleksandr Sukhodolia

Ph.D., Professor, Head of Energy Security and Technogenic Safety, National Institute for Strategic Studies, Ukraine

Critical infrastructure protection as a tool of national resilience of Ukraine

4/2019 Stanislav Maliar Lecturer, Department of Finance and Economics, Boris Grinchenko University of Kyiv Assistant to the Chairman of the Self-help Union MP, Kyiv City Council, Kyiv, Ukraine

Critical infrastructure: Safety challenges

4/2019 Rimantas Šikas Major, Head of Education, Training and Exercise Division, NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence, Lithuania

Oil refining challenges in Ukraine

4/2019 Markko Kallonen PhD in Diversity Management and Governance, Expert of Civilian Crisis Management, OSCE SMM

OSCE special monitoring mission in Ukraine – five years of crisis management

4/2019 Sergii Karasov Former Research Intern, NATO ENSEC COE, Lithuania

Gray zone conflict in the occupation waters and international law: Ukrainian case

4/2019 Peter Dickinson Publisher, Business Ukraine magazine, Ukraine Fellow, Atlantic Council, USA

Putin’s war and Ukraine’s nation-building journey

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4/2019 Mykhailo Bechkalo Executive Director, UkraineInvest, Ukrainian government’s investment promotion agency, Ukraine

Ukraine: Sea change in investment opportunities

4/2019 Adrian Prokip Energy Analyst, Ukrainian Institute for the Future, Kyiv, Ukraine, Senior Associate, Kennan Institute, Washington DC, USA

Ukraine’s energy: The State and oligarchs in a deadlock

4/2019 Valeriia Loiko Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of Finance and Economic, Boris Grinchenko University of Kyiv, Chairman, Council of the European Economic Association, Kyiv, Ukraine

Economic development of Ukraine after 2014

4/2019 Juhani Pihlajamaa Alexander Pavlov

Security Manager, Zaporizhkran factory, Zaporizhya, Ukraine Corporate Communications Director, Zaporizhkran factory, Zaporizhya, Ukraine

Konecranes in Ukraine

4/2019 Iryna Sheiko Roksana Petrova

Associated Professor, Department of Economic Cybernetics and Economic Security Management, Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics, Kharkiv, Ukraine Associated Professor, System Engineering Department, Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics, Kharkiv, Ukraine

Impact of globalization on the Ukrainian economy

4/2019 Lilia Ukrainets Associated Professor, PhD, Ivan Franko University of L’viv, Ukraine

Chinese business in Ukraine

4/2019 Jaana Vuorio Jaana Vuorio, Director General, Finnish Immigration Service

Ukrainian immigrants in Finland

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4/2019 Viktoriia Hladii MA in Baltic Sea Region studies, University of Turku, Assistant, Centrum Balticum Foundation, Finland

Labour market for international graduates: Perspective of an Ukrainian in Finland

4/2019 Nataliya Teramae Journalist, lecturer, University of Helsinki, Board member, Ukrainian Association in Finland

Love culture and make diplomacy

4/2019 Arto Luukkanen Dr. Docent, University Lecturer of the Russian Studies, University of Helsinki

The archive-revolution in Ukraine

4/2019 Kari Liuhto Professor, Director, Pan-European Institute, Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku

Ukraine on My Mind

3/2019 Urmas Reinsalu Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Connecting Europe – the Three Seas Initiative

3/2019 Juris Pūce Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development

Latvia is ready to be part of climate change solution

3/2019 Matti Anttonen Permanent State Secretary, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Northern Dimension 2.0

3/2019 Lassi Linnanen Professor, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology

From Efficiency to Sufficiency in Climate Policy

3/2019 Mari Pantsar Director, Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund

The circular economy can solve critical crises

3/2019 Maria Laamanen Senior Ministerial Adviser, Ministry of the Environment, Finland Professor of Practice, Åbo Akademi University

Climate change poses a challenge on cooperation to save the Baltic Sea

3/2019 Niko Soininen Assistant Professor in Sustainable Law, Regulation and Governance, Faculty of Law and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science, University of Helsinki

Legal challenges for blue growth in aquaculture

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3/2019 Per Jonsson Professor, Department of Marine Sciences, Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Visiting Professor, Environmental and Marine Biology, The Sea, Åbo Akademi University

The future of the Baltic Sea

3/2019 Päivi Antikainen Director of Climate and Environment Unit, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Finland

The Baltic Sea – a new pioneer in sustainable shipping?

3/2019 Lars Jensen CEO, SeaIntelligence Consulting

The slow coming of the future

3/2019 Merja Salmi-Lindgren

Senior Advisor, Marine Industries and Maritime Affairs, Meria Consulting

Towards smarter and more sustainable Baltic Sea

3/2019 Anita Mäkinen Adjunct Professor, PhD, Chief Adviser to the Director General of Maritime Sector, Finnish Transport and Communication Agency TRAFICOM, Finland

Climate change and international shipping

3/2019 Markus Helavuori Professional Secretary, Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM), Finland

Ship emissions and the state of the Baltic Sea

3/2019 Yassine Bakkar Research Fellow, Project Specialist, Tallinn University of Technology

New Politics for Financing Clean Shipping

3/2019 Riitta Pöntynen Senior Project Manager, Brahea Centre at the University of Turku, Centre for Maritime Studies

CSHIPP – projects together for Clean Shipping

3/2019 Teemu Itälinna Project Researcher, CSHIPP, Pan-European Institute, University of Turku

Best practices on cross-sectoral collaboration in clean shipping

3/2019 Gunnar Prause Professor, Tallinn University of Technology

Socio-economic impact of green shipping

3/2019 Miina Karjalainen

Eveliina Klemola

Project Researcher, PhD, Kotka Maritime Research Association Senior Specialist, PhD, Wega Group Oy

How to manage alien species in shipping

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3/2019 Päivi Haikkola Sinikka Hartonen

Ecosystem Lead, DIMECC / One Sea, Finland Head of Environment and Technology, Finnish Shipowners’ Association

Automation reshapes the maritime logistics

3/2019 Harilaos N. Psaraftis

Professor, Technical University of Denmark

The speed limit debate at the IMO

3/2019 Annaleena Mäkilä Managing Director, Finnish Port Association

Finnish ports joining the digital age

3/2019 Torben Aaberg Interregional Programme Manager, Aalborg University Copenhagen

A test lab for the Digital Single Market

3/2019 Ville Sirviö CEO, Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS), Estonia

Estonia and Finland – digital forerunners in cross-border cooperation

3/2019 Jacob Mangwana Haagendal

Director, Nordic Institute in Åland

The Ålandic potential – Cross sectoral co creation as the key to success

3/2019 Vladimir G. Kiknadze

Dr. Science (History), Associate Professor, Editor-in-Chief, Journal “Science. Society. Defense.”, Adviser, Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Moscow, The Russian Federation

Military-political situation in the Baltic Sea region

3/2019 Jan Saarela Professor of Demography with Statistics, Demography Unit, Åbo Akademi University, Vasa, Finland

The changing demography of Swedish speakers in Finland

3/2019 Irina M. Busygina Anton D. Onishchenko

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Higher School of Economics – National Research University (Campus in Saint Petersburg) Higher School of Economics – National Research University

On fences and neighbors: The problem of Polish minority in Lithuania

3/2019 Ekaterina A. Shlapeko

Researcher, Department of Regional Economic Policy, Institute of Economics, Karelian Re-search Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Finnish-Russian projects of cross-border cooperation

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3/2019 Dzmitry Kruk Research Associate, BEROC (Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center), Belarus

Belarus tends to face a ‘systemic fragility’

2/2019 Vytautas Bakas Chair of the Committee on National Security and Defence Seimas The Republic of Lithuania

Lithuania’s strive for energy security

2/2019 Ilkka Salmi Permanent Secretary Ministry of the Interior Finland

Baltic Sea Region and security cooperation

2/2019 Taneli Lahti Dr., Professor of Practice Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku Finland Director Confederation of Finnish Industries, EK Finland

Rule of law and the European single market

2/2019 Juha Ottman Ambassador Embassy of Finland Warsaw, Poland

Poland facing challenging energy policy decisions

2/2019 Shawn Waddoups Political and Economic Section Chief Embassy of the United States Helsinki, Finland

U.S. Baltic Sea Region engagement: What’s changed?

2/2019 Ossi Savolainen Regional Mayor Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council Finland

Let’s make the Baltic Sea Region stronger!

2/2019 Gerd Lange Coordinator for Policy Area Tourism of the EUSBSR // Head of Tourism Unit Ministry of Economics Employment and Health Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Germany

Sustainable tourism cooperation in the Baltic Sea region

2/2019 Bernd Hemingway Natalia Skripnikova

Deputy Director General Council of the Baltic Sea States Core Team Intern Assistant Council of the Baltic Sea States

30 Years Since 1989: CBSS Regional Responses to Global Challenges

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2/2019 Timothy Heleniak Shinan Wang Eeva Turunen Johanna Roto Justine Ramage Leneisja Jungsberg

Senior Research Fellow Cartographer/GIS Analyst Junior Research Fellow/ Cartographer GIS Consultant Research Fellow Research Fellow Authors represent Nordregio

People and Permafrost in the Arctic

2/2019 Malla Rannikko-Laine

Senior Planner Regional Council of Southwest Finland Finland

EU fund for infrastructure calls for sufficient national investments

2/2019 Marjo Uotila Director, Strategic Alliances Northern Growth Zone (Pohjoinen kasvuvyöhyke) c/o City of Turku, Finland

Towards stronger strategic alliances

2/2019 Kari Veijonen Jaakko Ruola

Senior Business Executives Veijonen Consulting Ltd Finland

Finland’s Archipelago Sea is unique on a global scale

2/2019 Denis Meleshkin Deputy Director National Agency of Investment and Privatization The Republic of Belarus

Finnish investors attracted to Belarus by cost competitiveness, highly educated workforce and small taxes

2/2019 Tomasz Orłowicz Head of Helsinki Office Polish Investment and Trade Agency

The role of subcontracting for Finnish and Polish SMEs in bilateral cooperation

2/2019 Sanna Turunen D.Sc. (Tech.) in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering Product Manager 3DTech Ltd Finland Postdoctoral Researcher Tampere University Finland

The era of additive manufacturing has dawned

2/2019 Mikko Villikari Commander, Chief of Operations Coastal Fleet Finland

Finnish - Swedish naval co-operation

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2/2019 Kasperi Summanen Editor Verkkouutiset (Online media owned by the National Coalition Party) Finland

Finland’s ”NATO-option” still matters

2/2019 Andres Kasekamp Professor of History, Chair of Estonian Studies University of Toronto Canada

AABS unites scholars of Baltic studies

2/2019 Kata Fredheim Executive Vice President - Partnerships and Strategy Assistant Professor Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Latvia

Remigration and Brain Gain in the Baltics

2/2019 Petteri Vuorimäki Senior Expert, European External Action Service (EEAS) Chair of the CBSS Group of Independent Experts, 2017-18 (CBSS Vision Group)

EU-Russia relations and the Baltic Sea Region

2/2019 Konstantin Khudoley Eric Shiraev

Professor School of International Relations Saint Petersburg State University Russia Professor Department of Public and International Affairs George Mason University USA

New trends in Russia’s foreign policy

2/2019 Matti Posio Editor-In-Chief Lännen Media Newsroom Finland

One thing missing in Finland

2/2019 Petri Raivio EU Correspondent, Brussels YLE Finnish National Broadcasting Co.

Nord Stream 2: The Russian gas pipeline splitting the European Union in two

2/2019 Heikki Lehtimäki Managing Partner Plan Energy Ltd Helsinki, Finland

Selected issues impacting the future of the Ukrainian Gas Transit System (GTS)

2/2019 Ben Aris Editor-in-Chief bne IntelliNews Russia

Russia 4.0: Putin’s May Decrees and National Projects to transform the economy

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2/2019 Alexey Kuznetsov Director of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN) Russia Editor-in-Chief Outlines of Global Transformation Russia

FDI geography: cultural proximity vs. geopolitical barriers

2/2019 Aleksei Ignatev Program Director Kaliningrad Economic Development Agency Russia

Kaliningrad after the 2018 World Football Cup: What next?

2/2019 Svetlana V. Stepanova Ekaterina A. Shlapeko

Researcher Department of Regional Economic Policy Institute of Economics Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences Russia Researcher Department of Regional Economic Policy Institute of Economics, Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Russian shopping tourists in the border regions of Finland

2/2019 Alexandra Yatsyk Visiting Fellow Polish Institute of Advanced Studies (PIAST) Warsaw, Poland

Is Narva (still) “the next”: A controversial story of the city of many frontiers

2/2019 Piotr Rudkouski Director of the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies Vilnius, Lithuania

Belarus – Russia: a new stage of (dis)integration

2/2019 Dmitry Yarmolyuk Deputy Director for European Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus

Belarus: a footprint on Baltic shores

2/2019 Galina Gavrilko Ph.D. (Economics), Associate Professor Department of International Economic Relations Belarus State University Belarus

The Baltics and Belarus: Development of foreign economic cooperation and improvement of the institutional structure

2/2019 John Christmas Former Head of International Relationships Group Parex Bank

Latvian Narratives and the EBRD 2

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2/2019 Andrei V. Korobkov Nikolaj A. Sluka Pavel N. Ivanov

Professor of Political Science and International Relations Middle Tennessee State University USA Professor of Geography Moscow State University Moscow, Russia MS (Geography), general advanced scholar Fudan University Shanghai, China

The Chinese diaspora in Europe: Serving the motherland from abroad

2/2019 Krzysztof Falkowski

Assistant Professor World Economy Research Institute Warsaw School of Economics Poland

Impact of Russian-Chinese Trade on Russian Economic Competitiveness

2/2019 Markus Holmgren Freelance researcher Eurasian Economic Union and energy markets

1/2019 Timo Soini Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland Baltic Sea – a unique region for security cooperation

1/2019 Jānis Vucāns President Baltic Assembly Visiting Professor and Leading Researcher Ventspils University College Latvia

The Baltic Assembly in the centenary year of the Baltic States

1/2019 Wille Rydman Member of the Parliament of Finland Member of the Nordic Council of Ministers Chairman of the Belarus-Finland Friendship Group Finland

Reviewing our relationship with Belarus

1/2019 Janika Takatalo M.Soc.Sc., Member of Turku City Council and Varsinais-Suomi Regional Council Member of the Board of the National Coalition Party Finland

A shift to greener taxation

1/2019 Helena Tuuri Ambassador for Baltic Sea Affairs Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland

On the Baltic Sea and the oceans

1/2019 Juha Virtanen Ambassador of Finland to Ukraine Finnish-Ukrainian relations since 1918

1/2019 Johannes Remy Visiting Assistant Professor Columbia University City of New York, U.S.A.

Russia and Crimea: Heroism and ethnic cleansing

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1/2019 Karina Korostelina Ph.D., Professor Director, Program on History, Memory, and Conflict Co-Director, Program for the Prevention of Mass Violence School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution George Mason University U.S.A.

National resilience to protracted violence in Ukraine

1/2019 Nina Hyvärinen Head of Corporate Relations F-Secure Finland

Protecting elections from hacking

1/2019 Michael Kofman Senior Research Scientist Center for Naval Analyses Fellow Kennan Institute Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Is a security dilemma likely to emerge in Europe?

1/2019 Mika Kalliomaa Colonel, Commander of the Pori Brigade Finnish Defence Forces Finland

International activities are FDF’s daily work

1/2019 Ely Karmon PhD, Senior Research Scholar International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) and The Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS) The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzlyia, Israel

Jihadist short-term threat to Europe

1/2019 Monika Stankiewicz

Executive Secretary HELCOM

For a healthy Baltic Sea, more needs to be done

1/2019 Juha Flinkman Development Manager, Research Vessels Scientific Diver Finnish Environment Institute SYKE Marine Research Center Finland

Lost but not forgotten – at least we shouldn’t

1/2019 Rolf Ladau CEO Paulig

What does sustainability mean in the corporate world in 2019?

1/2019 Mikko Ali-Melkkilä Head of Sales Kyrö Distillery Company Finland

In rye we trust – Kyrö Distillery Company

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1/2019 Elisa Mikkolainen Senior Advisor (Maritime Affairs) BSAG Baltic Sea Action Group, Foundation for a Living Baltic Sea Finland

Reducing the environmental footprint of shipping in the Baltic Sea

1/2019 Tadeusz Palmowski Maciej Tarkowski

Professor, Head Department of Regional Development Geography University of Gdańsk Poland Post-doctoral fellow Department of Regional Development Geography University of Gdańsk Poland

Baltic cooperation in marine spatial planning

1/2019 Jan Feller Dr., Deputy Managing Director German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce (AHK Finnland)

Data is the new lamp oil

1/2019 Ieva Tetere Supervisory Board Member Finance Latvia Association CEO SEB Latvia

Looking forward: Latvia after dramatic financial industry shake

1/2019 Daria Akhutina Senior Advisor for Long-Term Priority “Sustainable and Prosperous Region” The Permanent International Secretariat Council of the Baltic Sea States

CBSS – Background and vision for future cooperation in BSR

1/2019 David Skilling Dr, Director Landfall Strategy Group Singapore

The Baltic Sea Region: Looking forward

1/2019 Alexander Sebentsov Senior Researcher Center for Geopolitical Studies Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Which lessons could be learned from cross-border cooperation?: A view from Russia

1/2019 Ivan S. Gumenyuk Tomasz Studzieniecki

Dr., Associate Professor Department of Geography, Nature Management, and Spatial Development Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia Dr. Gdynia Maritime University Department of Management and Economics Poland

Prospects for enhancing transport communication between the border regions of Russia and Poland

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1/2019 Ruslan M. Shafiev Ekaterina V. Golubtsova Denis A. Maksimov

Doctor of Economics, Professor State Counselor Civil Service of the Russian Federation 1 class Russian Customs Academy Russia Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Accounting and Taxation Russian Economic University named after GV Plekhanova Russia Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Mathematical Methods in Economics Russian Economic University named after GV Plekhanova Russia

Marking of goods and the Eurasian common market

1/2019 Erik Brattberg Director of the Europe Program Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Chinese investments in the Baltic Sea region

1/2019 Alexander G. Druzhinin

Professor-researcher I. Kant Baltic Federal University Kaliningrad, Russia

“One Belt – One Road”: New opportunities for the Baltic Sea Region?

1/2019 Hannele Valkeeniemi

Press Counsellor Embassy of Finland, Tallinn

The trap of neighbourhood – Finland’s image in Estonia and Estonia’s image in Finland

1/2019 Thomas Karlsson Senior Researcher, Vice Head of Unit The Alcohol, Drugs and Addictions Unit Department of Public Health Solutions National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) Finland

Alcohol trade across the Gulf of Finland

1/2019 Annika Kunnasvirta

Project Manager Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland

Sustainable tourism and heritage destinations in the Baltic Sea Archipelago

1/2019 Lea Kivelä-Pelkonen

M.Sc. Marketing, Managing Director, Member of Solved’s expert network FIDICO – Fifth Dimension Consulting Responsible Travel & Tourism Development Helsinki, Finland

Responsible tourism – solution to complex challenges?

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1/2019 Kari Liuhto Director, Professor Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

The National Baltic Sea Forum of Finland in Turku

4/2018 Anne-Mari Virolainen

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Finland

Finnish-Swedish economic relations – together stronger on the global market

4/2018 Aleksei Kudrin Chairman Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation

Russia’s economy after 2018: Long-term challenges, short-term solutions

4/2018 Anna-Maja Henriksson

Member of Parliament and Party Leader Svenska folkpartiet in Finland

Strategic collaboration, influence and results

4/2018 Anders Ahnlid Ambassador Embassy of Sweden in Helsinki

Civil defence next for Finnish-Swedish cooperation

4/2018 Maximilian Hennig Ambassador Embassy of Austria in Finland

The Austrian Presidency of the EU Council

4/2018 Harri Tiido Ambassador Embassy of Estonia in Finland

Finland and Estonia: Common testing ground

4/2018 Anders Ljunggren Former Swedish Ambassador in Tallinn and in Reykjavik

The step by step growth of cooperation between the Nordic and Baltic countries

4/2018 Artur Parfenchikov Head of the Republic of Karelia The Russian Federation

Favorable conditions for investors are being created in Karelia

4/2018 Taliya Minullina The Head Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Russia Member Tatarstan Government Russia

Tatarstan is for smart investors only!

4/2018 Romek Kosenkranius

Mayor The City of Pärnu Estonia

Pärnu: Our cooperation with the Nordic countries

4/2018 Mikko Hupa Rector Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland

Åbo Akademi University – a link in the Nordic chain

4/2018 Karen Spens Rector Hanken School of Economics Finland

A business school with a Nordic heart – shaping leaders for a sustainable future

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4/2018 Jarmo Lindberg General Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces Finland

Finnish-Swedish defence cooperation advances

4/2018 Jens Nykvist Rear Admiral, Chief of Staff Royal Swedish Navy Sweden

Swedish-Finnish Naval cooperation

4/2018 Janne Kuusela Director General Defence Policy Department Ministry of Defence Finland

New framework for Finnish-Swedish defence cooperation

4/2018 Anu Sallinen Senior Adviser National Defence Unit Ministry of Defence Finland

Swedish elections – still diplomacy over military?

4/2018 Heljä Ossa Master of Social Sciences University of Tampere Finland

The revival of the European defence cooperation

4/2018 Jouni Kemppainen Editor-in-chief Maaseudun Tulevaisuus Finland

Climate change will not stop without broad co-operation

4/2018 Ninna Mörner Editor-in-chief Baltic Worlds Centre for Baltic and East European Studies Södertörn University Sweden

An arena for the exchange of ideas and research

4/2018 Stefan Ewert Dr., Research Assistant Greifswald University Germany

The EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and the Baltic Sea

4/2018 Anna Karlsdóttir Senior Research Fellow Nordregio

The Nordic cooperation for integration of refugees and migrants – IMPORTANT milestone in creating cross-national knowledge about development in the Nordic region

4/2018 Juhani Ailio Planner Centrum Balticum Foundation Finland

EUSBSR Steering Groups for better inclusion

4/2018 Christer Bruzelius Chief Executive Officer Destination Gotland AB Sweden

Gotland’s outlook on tourism & environment

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4/2018 Janne Virtanen Director, Regional Promotion Regional Council of Southwest Finland Finland

Northern Growth Corridor brings together Nordic major cities

4/2018 Anne Horila Ismo Hannula Outi Myllymaa

Director Growth Corridor Finland Strategy Manager City of Hämeenlinna Finland Communication and Development Advisor Growth Corridor Finland

Co-operation on smart and sustainable mobility in the North Sea Baltic region

4/2018 Tiina Tihlman Pekka Salminen

Ministerial Adviser Ministry of the Environment Finland Coordinator of the Finnish maritime spatial planning cooperation Finland

Maritime spatial planning & blue growth

4/2018 Olli-Pekka Mäki Director of Environmental Protection City of Turku Finland

Baltic Sea Challenge as a water protection tool in Turku

4/2018 Christian Ramberg Managing Director Port of Turku Ltd Finland

NextGen Link project aims at cleaner shipping

4/2018 Kjell Skoglund CEO Finnish-Swedish Chamber of Commerce Sweden

Nordic integration enters a new era

4/2018 Igor Lonsky Director Turku Centre in St. Petersburg

Turku’s presence in Saint Petersburg

4/2018 Sheila M. Puffer Daniel J. McCarthy

University Distinguished Professor D’Amore-McKim School of Business Northeastern University Boston, USA University Distinguished Professor D’Amore-McKim School of Business Northeastern University Boston, USA

Government dictates the way in Russian business

4/2018 Jaana Rekolainen CEO Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce Finland

Finnish business dives into Russia’s turbulent markets

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4/2018 Teemu Helppolainen Executive Vice President, YIT Plc Head of YIT Housing Russia General Director, YIT St. Petersburg JSC

Drivers for the housing sector in Russia intact

4/2018 Alexandra Polyakova Tatiana Maleva

Professor, Leading Researcher Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration The Russian Federation Director Institute for Social Analysis and Forecasting Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration The Russian Federation

E-commerce in Russia: Trends and constraints

4/2018 Hanna Mäkinen Project Researcher Pan-European Institute University of Turku Finland

Kaliningrad – Russia’s western exclave

4/2018 Anna Berlina Research Fellow Nordregio Sweden

Bioeconomy – a driver for rural development in the Akrhangelsk region in Russia?

4/2018 Michael Loader Dr., Postdoctor Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies Uppsala University Sweden

Resisting Russification in Soviet Latvia

3/2018 Elsi Katainen Member of the European Parliament Member of the International Trade Committee Finland

The Baltic Sea Region - US relationship in the current trade turbulence

3/2018 Saara-Sofia Sirén Member of Finnish Parliament (National Coalition Party) Vice-chair of the Finnish delegation of Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference (BSPC) Finland

Futures approach to saving the Baltic Sea

3/2018 Jaakko Ossa Professor of Tax Law University of Turku Finland

Corporate income tax in Finland

3/2018 Eitvydas Bajarunas Ambassador-at-Large for Hybrid Threats Ministry of Foreign Affairs Lithuania Member of the Steering Board European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats Helsinki, Finland

Hybrid threats: Lithuania‘s response

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3/2018 Cees Bansema Ambassador of the Netherlands to Finland

Dutch-Finnish economic relations

3/2018 Imants Lieģis Latvia’s Ambassador to France, former Defence Minister Latvia

Russia’s impact on regional security

3/2018 Aleksandr Jefimov Chairman of Narva City Council during April 2011- July 2018 Estonia

Narva is running for the title of European Capital of Culture in 2024!

3/2018 Turo Mattila Deputy Representative of Finland Political and Security Committee of the EU

Our cybersecurity requires European deterrence

3/2018 Marius Laurinavičius

Senior Analyst Vilnius Institute for Policy Analysis Lithuania

Russian meddling in Western politics has been simplified

3/2018 Wolfgang Schareck Professor, Dr., Rector University of Rostock Germany

On the way to becoming a beacon of excellence in the Baltic Sea Region

3/2018 Piotr Stepnowski Professor, Vice-Rector for Research and Foreign Cooperation University of Gdansk Poland

University of Gdansk in Baltic Sea region

3/2018 Arto Räty Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Communications Fortum Corporation Finland

The Baltic Rim countries can lead the change for a cleaner world

3/2018 Keith Martin Chief Commercial Officer Uniper SE Germany

Nord Stream 2: A European project in the Baltic Region

3/2018 Tadas Jakštas Dr., Subject Matter Expert NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence Lithuania

Maritime threats to energy security in the Baltic Sea region

3/2018 Miriam Holstein Dr., CEO Nordic Region Bayer Nordic SE Finland

Open innovation is the key to success also in the Nordic region

3/2018 Evgeny Lebedev Third Secretary Department of Foreign Economic Activity Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Belarus Belarus

Belarus-Finland investment cooperation

3/2018 Galina Gribanova Professor, Head of International Political Processes Department Saint Petersburg State University Russia

Russia-NATO confrontation on the Baltic Sea

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3/2018 Ivan Kurilla Professor of History and International Relations European University at St. Petersburg Russia

US – Russian relations as international manifestation of domestic culture wars

3/2018 Marcin Kaczmarski Senior Research Fellow Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Russia and China: fellow travellers

3/2018 Mark D. Steinberg Professor University of Illinois U.S.A.

The Russian revolution in prison: When history matters

3/2018 Olavi Arens Professor of History Georgia Southern University U.S.A.

Brest-Litovsk in retrospect: A hundred year

3/2018 Pavel Trunin Ph.D., Leading Research Fellow RANEPA Russia

Russia’s external debt

3/2018 Alexander Bulatov Professor MGIMO University Russia

Offshore orientation of Russian FDI

3/2018

Maria Zotova Alexander Sebentsov

Senior Research Associate Centre for Geopolitical Studies Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences Russia Senior Research Associate Centre for Geopolitical Studies Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

New challenges to the cross-border cooperation in the Kaliningrad region

3/2018 Heli Simola Senior Economist Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT) Finland

Finnish-Russian trade recovering gradually

3/2018 Svetlana Stepanova Ph.D. in Economics, Research Fellow Institute of Economics Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Cross-border tourist routes in the Finnish-Russian borderland

3/2018 Adam A. Ambroziak Ph.D., Associate Professor, Jean Monnet European Chair Collegium of World Economy SGH - Warsaw School of Economics Poland

Russia’s embargo on the Polish apple exports

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3/2018

Merit Tatar

Member of the Board Institute of Baltic Studies Tartu, Estonia Replication coordinator in the H2020 SmartEnCity project Partner in Interreg Baltic Sea Region BSR electric and Cities.multimodal projects

Developing smart and sustainable urban transport systems

3/2018 Maximo Q. Mejia Jr.

Professor, Director of the Ph.D. Program, Head of the Maritime Law and Policy Specialization World Maritime University Malmö, Sweden

Developing a regulatory framework for autonomous shipping

3/2018 Milla Harju Project Manager/ ECOPRODIGI Pan-European Institute University of Turku Finland

Global challenges call for local response through common goals

3/2018 Leonard Rozenberg Dariusz Zarzecki

Professor West Pomeranian University of Technology Szczecin Poland Professor University of Szczecin Poland

Shipbuilding – reality and challenges for Poland

3/2018 Tomasz Abramowski

Director General Interoceanmetal Joint Organization (IOM) Poland Associate Professor Maritime University of Szczecin Poland

Deep sea mining – raw materials new perspective

3/2018 Zaiga Krišjāne Professor, Dean Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences University of Latvia Latvia

Seeing potential of young return migrants to Latvia

3/2018 Evija Klave Senior Researcher Baltic Institute of Social Science Latvia

Third country nationals’ integration in Latvia

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3/2018 Nico Groenendijk Senior Research Fellow OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet Norway Visiting Professor of European Studies Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies University of Tartu Estonia

The Baltic States: Affluent societies?

3/2018 Gediminas Vitkus Professor of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilnius University Lithuania

The Euroscepticism in the Baltic States: Manifested and latent

3/2018 Kārlis Krēsliņš Rector, Associate Professor Ventspils University of Applied Sciences Latvia

Role of education in regional development: A case of Ventspils

3/2018 Franka Marie Herfurth

M. A., Researcher Chair of Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship Education University of Rostock Germany

Cross-border vocational education and training

3/2018 Sigitas Brazinskas Expert, projects funded by the European Union Lithuania

Digital industrial platforms as enablers of a closer Nordic integration

3/2018 Aleksandr Izgorodin Expert Lithuanian Innovation Centre Lithuania

Lithuanian manufacturing: Rapid growth accompanied by challenges

3/2018

Alexandra Middleton Andrey Mineev

Assistant Professor Oulu Business School University of Oulu Finland Researcher High North Center Nord University Business School Norway

What are the business opportunities and development challenges in the Arctic?

3/2018 Aki Pulli Chair Suomi – Ukraina -silta r.y (Friendship Association between Finland and Ukraine) Finland

Ukraine’s increasing presence in Baltic region

3/2018 Tiina Ritvala D.Sc. (Econ.), Assistant Professor of International Business Head of MSc Studies in International Business Aalto University Finland

Grand challenges and the small wins strategy

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3/2018 Aleksandra Wąsowska

Dr, Assistant Professor in Strategy and International Business Faculty of Management University of Warsaw Poland

Political and social strategies of multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa: A focus on Polish firms

3/2018 Matti Ponkala Chairman of the Board, Partner Bokira Group Ltd Finland

Cuba attracts more than ever – Bokira´s view

3/2018 Kari Liuhto Director, Professor Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

The future of Cuba: Reform or revolution

2/2018 Anne Berner Minister responsible for Nordic cooperation Government of Finland Finland

New opportunities and trends in Nordic cooperation

2/2018 Aleksi Randell Director General, Confederation of Finnish Construction Industries RT Chairman, Centrum Balticum Foundation Finland

Core Network Corridors will gain importance as drivers of the competitiveness of the Baltic region

2/2018 Alexey Vedev Director Center of Structural Research Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Russia

Economic development of Russia in 2017-2018: a recovery-driven unstable growth

2/2018 Ville Skinnari Member of Parliament Finland

Are we ready to head North?

2/2018 Timo Hirvonen Commodore Chief of Staff Navy Command Finland

Cooperation between the Finnish and Swedish navies

2/2018 Peter Stolt Defense Attaché Embassy of Sweden in Helsinki, Finland

Sweden’s and Finland’s deepened defense cooperation

2/2018 Jari Sainio Fire and Rescue Director Southwest Finland Emergency Services Finland

The international cooperation of Southwest Finland Emergency Services in the Baltic Sea

2/2018 Jyri Raitasalo Military Professor of War Studies Finnish National Defence University Finland

The clash of security perspectives

59

2/2018 Galina Gavrilko Ph.D. Belarusian State University Minsk, Belarus

Militarization of the Baltic Sea Region: economic consequences and scenarios for the development of military and political confrontation

2/2018 Heidi Fransila Director Blic Finland

Shared situational awareness is a deterrent in the Baltic Sea Region

2/2018 Jaakko Mikkola Regional Mayor Kymenlaakso Finland

Kymenlaakso – a region by the sea and the EU external border

2/2018 Marita Toikka Mayor City of Kouvola Finland

Kouvola – perfect for growing logistics operations

2/2018 Jarosław Suchoples Ambassador Embassy of Poland in Helsinki, Finland

Exploring potential of bilateral contacts: relations between Poland and Finland nowadays

2/2018 Jarno Syrjälä Ambassador Embassy of Finland Beijing, China

New trends in the Finnish-Chinese economic relations

2/2018 Alexander Gremitskikh

Consul General of the Russian Federation in Turku, Finland

St. Petersburg and Turku: A time-tested friendship

2/2018 Tomi Taipale Honorary Consul of Lithuania Member, Board of the Finnish-Lithuanian Trade Association Managing Director, Mamec Oy Finland

Could Lithuanian companies help Finland achieve greater success?

2/2018 Iaroslav Chornogor PhD, Senior Research Fellow, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Deputy Chairman of the Board Foreign Policy Council “Ukrainian Prism”

Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian regional partnership

2/2018 Marc Lemaître Director-General Regional and Urban Policy DG European Commission

EU supporting cooperation across borders in the Baltic Sea Region

2/2018 Dagfinn Høybråten Secretary General Nordic Council of Ministers

Trust defines the Nordic countries and brings them together

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2/2018 Tobias Etzold Christian Opitz

Associate, Research Center Norden German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) Berlin, Germany Research Assistant, Research Center Norden German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) Berlin, Germany

More political relevance for Nordic cooperation

2/2018

Kari Ruohonen Malla Paajanen

Project Director FinEst Link Project Finland Chief Adviser Helsinki Uusimaa Regional Council Finland

Helsinki Tallinn railway tunnel: Results of the FinEst Link feasibility study

2/2018 Allan Selirand Head Estonian Investment Agency Estonia

You know Estonia as an IT-country: Wait till you find out what else we can offer

2/2018 Paavo Virkkunen Executive Vice President, Business Finland Head of Visit Finland Finland

Travel boom from China to Finland: Coincidence or not?

2/2018 Kyösti Karvonen Editor-in-Chief Kaleva daily Finland

Finland chooses continuity

2/2018 Mika Hentunen US Correspondent for the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle, based in Washington D.C.

Draining the swamp in Washington means fewer diplomatic channels to Baltic Rim countries

2/2018 Manabu Senkogu Professor and Director Slavic-Eurasian Research Center Hokkaido University Japan

The Baltic States and Japan: What, if any, are the possibilities of further cooperation?

2/2018 Madeleine Granvik Director, Ph.D., Associate Professor The Baltic University Programme Uppsala University Sweden

27 years of regional work: The Baltic University Programme

2/2018 Helene Carlbäck Associate Professor in History Södertörn University Sweden

Swedes in Russia: Narratives in change

2/2018 John Christmas Former Head of International Relationships Group Parex Bank in Latvia

Latvian narratives and the EBRD

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2/2018 Sergey Kalendzhyan Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Dean GSCM RANEPA Russia

Business education in Russia: New trends and perspectives

2/2018 David Szakonyi PhD, Assistant Professor Department of Political Science George Washington University United States of America

The effects of state capitalism on Russia’s business environment

2/2018

Csaba Weiner

Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow Institute of World Economics Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungary

Outward foreign direct investment by Russian MNEs: Focus on home-country push factors, Europe and five CEE countries

2/2018 Sergei F. Sutyrin

Serafima Khatkevich

Professor, World Economy Department Head WTO Chair Holder St. Petersburg State University Russia Master’s Student St. Petersburg State University Russia

Wind of change: New opportunities for Finnish-Russian energy cooperation

2/2018 Katariina Valli Managing Director ZYFRA Europe Helsinki

The future of machine learning and advanced analytics: Finland and Russia perspective

2/2018 Ekaterina Tarasova Dr., Previously Lecturer in Political Science Södertörn University Sweden

On recent anti-nuclear movements in Russia

2/2018 Laura Klemetti Project Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku, Finland

From Putin to people: Perspectives on the Russian hydrocarbon age

2/2018 Azat Rakhmanov Doctor of Philosophical Sciences, Associate Professor Faculty of Sociology Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia

Business elites of the Baltic Sea region

2/2018 Irina Dezhina D.Sc., Department Head Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Gaidar Institute of Economic Policy Russia

Russian innovation system in the digital era

2/2018 Meelis Kitsing Head of Research Foresight Centre Associate Professor Estonian Business School Estonia

Regulation of digital platforms in Europe: A stumbling block or a building block?

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2/2018 Irene Malgina PhD, Associate Professor Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of President of the Republic of Belarus Belarus

Digital economy: The case of Belarus

2/2018 Kari Perälä

Jukka Partinen

CIO, Doctor of business Econ. City of Imatra Project Manager of the Cross-Border City of Imatra

Project of fluency cross-border car traffic on South-East of Finland

2/2018 Minna Säpyskä-Aalto

Senior Specialist, International Projects and Financing The Baltic Institute of Finland Finland

The hunt for cross-border startups

2/2018 Martin Korpi PhD, Researcher The Ratio Institute and Södertörn University Stockholm, Sweden

Immigration and the Swedish labor market

2/2018 Jari Hänninen Station Manager Archipelago Research Institute Biodiversity Unit University of Turku Finland

Changing environment of the Baltic Sea should be recognized in the future resource management activities

2/2018 Lauri Paltemaa Professor, Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies University of Turku, Finland

Finnish economic relations with China: Trends and risks

2/2018 Sun Yan Ph.D, Assistant Professor Institute of European Studies Chinese Academy of Social Sciences China

China-CEE cooperation and China-EU relationship: Background, progress and outcomes

2/2018 Jukka Aukia Post-doctoral Researcher Centre for East Asian Studies University of Turku Finland

China’s 16+1 platform and the Baltic States

1/2018 Sampo Terho Minister for European Affairs, Culture and Sport Finland

Direction of the Finnish humanitarian immigration policy

1/2018 Othmar Karas Member of European Parliament Chair of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee

The straight path forward

1/2018 Sirpa Pietikäinen Member of European Parliament

China is ahead in the game – where is Europe?

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1/2018 Elina Lepomäki Member of Parliament (National Coalition Party) Parliament of Finland Finland

European perspectives on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline

1/2018 Hannu Muhonen Mayor Town of Hamina Finland

Towns need a well-functioning Baltic Sea

1/2018 Marjukka

Vihavainen-Pitkänen

Senior Adviser Networks Department Ministry of Transport and Communications Finland

Many potential benefits to improving connectivity in the Arctic

1/2018 Allan Rosas Judge European Court of Justice Chairman Advisory Board BALEX (Baltic Area Legal Studies), a cooperation framework between the University of Turku and the Åbo Akademi University Finland

CBSS: small, unknown but beautiful?

1/2018

Joakim Berndtsson Karl Ydén

Associate Professor University of Gothenburg Sweden Senior Lecturer Chalmers University of Technology Sweden

Back to the future? Swedish public opinion on - Russia, defence spending and NATO membership

1/2018 Kari Liuhto Professor, Director Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku Finland

Russia’s economic interaction with the NATO member states

1/2018 Margarita Šešelgytė Dr., Studies Director Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilnius University Lithuania

Security challenges for the Baltic Sea region

1/2018 Henri Vanhanen Master of Social Sciences, Editor The Ulkopolitist Finland

Maintaining stability at the Baltic Sea region

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1/2018 Mykhailo Gonchar President Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI” Ukraine Member National Committee for Industrial Development Ukraine

Future of natural gas transit from Russia via Ukraine to the EU

1/2018 Juha-Antero Puistola

Senior Adviser, CDR Secretariat of the Security Committee Finland

Nord Stream 2 – divide et impera

1/2018 Ruslan Mustakimovich Shafiev

Doctor of Economics, Professor The International University in Moscow Academician Russian Academy of Natural Sciences

The main directions of Russia’s energy diplomacy

1/2018 Matti Saarelainen Director The European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats – Hybrid CoE Finland

A need for clarity in the era of hybrid threats

1/2018 Jorma Turunen CEO Finnish Technology Industries Finland

Digitalization as the key success factor of the Finnish manufacturing industry

1/2018

Eini Haaja Milla Harju

Project Manager Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku Finland Project Manager Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku Finland

ECOPRODIGI – bringing ecoefficiency to maritime sector in the Baltic Sea region through digitalisation

1/2018 Tommi Inkinen Professor Brahea Centre Centre for Maritime Studies University of Turku Finland

Digitalization is strongly present in the current Maritime Studies of the Baltic Sea at the University of Turku

1/2018 Michael Emerson Associate Senior Research Fellow Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Brussels, Belgium Former EU Ambassador to Moscow

Prospects for Lisbon to Vladivostok

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1/2018 Claus-Friedrich Laaser Klaus Schrader

Senior Researcher, Area Special Topics Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Germany Head, Area Special Topics Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Germany

A German view on the Baltic Sea region

1/2018 Kaisa Leiwo Acting Managing Director Turku Chamber of Commerce Finland

Turku region enjoying positive structural shift

1/2018 Toni Sulameri Managing Director (M.Sc. Engineering) Suomen Hyötytuuli Oy Finland

Future of wind power is offshore

1/2018 Emin Akcaoglu Harald J. Bolsinger Rainer Wehner

Guest Professor Faculty of Economics and Business Administration University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt Germany Professor, Dean Faculty of Economics and Business Administration University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt Germany Senior Lecturer and Director International Relations Faculty of Economics and Business Administration University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt Germany

Recent developments exposing further political risks: what about multinational corporations’ reaction?

1/2018 Elmira K. Zilber Andrey S. Mikhaylov

MD, D. Sc., Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia PhD, Deputy Vice-Rector for Research and International Affairs Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia

Limited territorial capital and the development of a university

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1/2018

Sergey Kadochnikov Anna Fedyunina

Director, Professor HSE University in St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Russia Director of Analytical Centre, PhD HSE University in St. Petersburg St. Petersburg, Russia

The shifting structure of Russia’s export 2014-2016

1/2018 Andrey Vinogradov Ph.D., Deputy Head for International Relations, Associate Professor School of Logistics National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia

Logistics of internet retailing in Russia faces new challenges

1/2018 Rajib Sanyal Dean Willumstad School of Business Adelphi University-New York USA

Bribery in international business in post-USSR countries

1/2018 Andres Metspalu Professor and Director The Institute of Genomics Estonian Genome Center University of Tartu Estonia

Biobanking and precision medicine

1/2018 Ramūnas Povilanskas

Professor Recreation and Tourism Department University of Klaipeda Lithuania

Health tourism in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

1/2018 Ellu Saar Professor Institute of International Social Studies Tallinn University Estonia

Youth unemployment in the Baltic States

1/2018 Göran Larsson Professor of Religious Studies University of Gothenburg Sweden

Global conflicts with local consequences – some examples from Sweden

1/2018 Luule Sakkeus Head and Senior Researcher Estonian Institute for Population Studies School of Governance, Law and Society Tallinn University Estonia

Population development of Estonia

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1/2018

Anne Kovalainen Seppo Poutanen Jatta Jännäri

Professor School of Economics University of Turku Finland Senior Research Fellow School of Economics University of Turku Finland Doctoral Student School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Gender equality in the Baltic Sea region – similarities and differences

1/2018 Emil Edenborg SFP Researcher Swedish Institute of International Affairs Sweden Postdoctoral Researcher Södertörn University Sweden

Has the Baltic Sea become a frontier in a global conflict over sexuality?

1/2018 Alexander Kondakov

PhD, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow University of Wisconsin-Madison USA Assistant Professor European University at St. Petersburg Russia Researcher Centre for Independent Social Research Russia Deputy-Editor-in-Chief Journal of Social Policy Studies Russia

Hate crime against LGBT individuals in Russia

1/2018 Xue Fuqi Professor Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Beijing, China

An interpretation of deficiency of development in Russia

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1/2018

Nis Høyrup Christensen Ari Kokko

Assistant Professor Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Denmark Professor, Director Asia Research Centre Copenhagen Business School Denmark

Chinese FDI in the Nordic and Baltic countries

1/2018 Galina Gavrilko Professor, PhD Department of International Relations Belarusian State University Belarus

Chinese version of the Marshall Plan

1/2018 Konstantinas Andrijauskas

Associate Professor Asian Studies and International Politics Vilnius University Lithuania

The Baltic States and China’s infrastructure push: appreciation of insecurities

1/2018 Enn Listra Professor, Dean School of Business and Governance Tallinn University of Technology Estonia

Slowing leaptigers contested by skilled elephants

1/2018 Vello Pettai Professor of Comparative Politics Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies University of Tartu Estonia

Taking stock of Estonia’s political left turn

1/2018

Henning Sten Hansen Lise Schrøder Michael Kull

Coordinator, BONUS BASMATI Professor Department of Planning Aalborg University Copenhagen Denmark Co-coordinator, BONUS BASMATI Associate Professor Department of Planning Aalborg University Copenhagen Denmark WP Leader, BONUS BASMATI Senior Research Fellow Nordregio Sweden Adjunct Professor University of Helsinki Finland

BONUS BASMATI

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1/2018 Thomas Backhaus Professor Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Gothenburg Sweden

Chemical pollution of the Baltic Sea – a brief overview and assessment

1/2018 Vladislava Vladimirova

Associate Professor Uppsala University Sweden

The green economy in Russia

1/2018 Jørgen Jørgensen Acting Rector European Humanities University Lithuania

European Humanities University – bridging Belarus to Lithuania and the West

1/2018 Vladimir Chaplygin Dr. Hab. Econ, Professor WSB University in Gdańsk Poland

Russian and Belarus monetary union: experience, problems and perspectives

1/2018 Vitaly Zinovchuk Dr., Professor, Chairman Department of Marketing Zhytomyr National University of Agriculture and Ecology Ukraine

Ukrainian agriculture is on the threshold of a cooperative boom

4/2017 Andrus Ansip Vice-President Digital Single Market European Commission

Going digital in the Baltic Sea Region

4/2017 Jari Leppä Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Finland

Food production in Finland

4/2017 Jörgen Pettersson Member Åland Parliament Finland

From crisis to success, how Åland became the Islands of Peace

4/2017 Ville Itälä Member The European Court of Auditors

Spending EU taxpayers´ money must bring better results

4/2017 Kari Häkämies Region Mayor Regional Council of Southwest Finland Finland

Doing great and enjoying it – sea, internationality and other success factors of Southwest Finland

4/2017 Kalev Kallo Chairman (2015-02.11.2017) Tallinn City Council Estonia

Tallinn’s public transport is part of a greater plan

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4/2017

Jarkko Virtanen

Deputy Mayor City of Turku Finland Chairman The Tall Ships Races Port Committee Turku Finland

Major events are an opportunity for the city to profile itself

4/2017 Katharina Fegebank Second Mayor and Minister for Science, Research and Equalities Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Germany

Hamburg´s Baltic Sea Region strategy for science and research turns into practical cooperation through Baltic Science Network

4/2017 Erja Tikka Ambassador for Baltic Sea Affairs Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

Finland´s new strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

4/2017 Dmitry Chuikov First Secretary Embassy of Belarus in Finland

Belarusian NPP – safe opportunity to increase energy security

4/2017 Maria Blässar Deputy Head of Representation European Commission Representation in Finland

European defence cooperation and its relevance for Finland, Sweden and Estonia

4/2017 Ilkka Korkiamäki Rector, Major General National Defence University Finland

Russia research at the national defence university

4/2017 Matti Sarasmaa Commander Kainuu Border Guard District Finland

Border – a barrier between Kainuu region and the Republic of Karelia?

4/2017 Alexander Dynkin President, Professor Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations Moscow, Russia

Russia in a future world order

4/2017 Arūnas Augustinaitis

Rector, Professor, Dr. Kazimiero Simonavičiaus Universitetas Lithuania

Lithuania on the road to a shifting economic identity

4/2017 Dovilė Budrytė Professor of Political Science Georgia Gwinnett College USA

War memories and insecurities: the politics of memory in Lithuania

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4/2017 Nadia Alexandrova-Arbatova

Head Department on European Political Studies Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

The Russia-EU crisis: lessons from the recent past

4/2017

Māris Andžāns Uģis Romanovs

Dr., Senior Research Fellow Latvian Institute of International Affairs Latvia Assistant Professor Rīga Stradiņš University Latvia Ltc. (ret.), Lecturer Baltic Defence College Latvia Research Fellow Latvian Institute of International Affairs Latvia

NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in Latvia – a historical moment but not yet the end of history

4/2017 Marko Lehti University Researcher Academic Director of Master’s Programme in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research (PEACE) Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI) University of Tampere Finland

Struggle over history: resilience as tolerance towards one’s own past

4/2017 Vadim Volovoj PhD in Political Science Docent in Mykolas Romeris University Lithuania

Security of Lithuania in the context of its relations with Russia

4/2017 Irina Batorshina Dr., Independent Expert Russia

Is it possible to reduce tension in the Baltic region?

4/2017 Boris Mints Dr., Founder The Boris Mints Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions to Global Challenges Tel Aviv University Israel

Business trouble in Europe

4/2017 Ilkka Salonen CEO East Office of Finnish Industries Finland

Contacts and contracts

4/2017 Anastasia Nevskaya Research Associate Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) Moscow, Russia

TNC’s from the Baltic Rim Economies lobbying in Russia under sanctions

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4/2017 Marcin Kuzel PhD, Assistant Professor Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń Poland

Business internationalisation: foreign direct investment by Polish companies

4/2017 Harri Kulmala Dr., CEO DIMECC Ltd. Finland Member of the EC HLG for maximizing the impact of R&I (“Lamy Group”)

One Sea – glimpse of the European Future that we want

4/2017 Boris Frumkin Associate Professor, Head of the Department Institute of Economics Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Agri-food complex of Russia: present and future

4/2017 Björn Fägersten Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Europe Programme Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) Sweden

After Brexit we need a new security and solidarity pact

4/2017 Lars Fredrik Stöcker PhD, Researcher Institute for Eastern European History, University of Vienna Austria

Perceived economic exploitation and separatist regionalism in the EU: lessons from the Soviet collapse

4/2017 Olav S. Melin Community and Media Relations Officer Magma Think Tank Helsinki, Finland

Harder times for minorities

4/2017 Ronja Marjamaa Member of the Board Young European Federalist in Finland Student University of Turku Finland

European Turku

4/2017 Mikko Ylikangas Programme Manager, PhD Academy of Finland Finland

The cooperation between the Academy of Finland and Russia

4/2017 Anna Grebenyuk Deputy Head Department for Strategic Foresight Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia

Evolution of STI priorities in Russia

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4/2017 Tuomas Koivula Managing Editor University Communications University of Turku Finland

Top research in the Baltic Sea Region – spread the news!

4/2017 Kazimierz Musiał PhD Programme Director Norden Centrum Scientific Foundation in Warsaw Poland Associate Professor in Scandinavian Studies University of Gdańsk Poland

Identifying potentials for scientific excellence in the Baltic Sea Region with reference to regional science and research collaboration

4/2017 Massimo Moraglio Senior Researcher Technische Universität Berlin Germany

The future of the Baltic region is water

4/2017 Larissa Riabova Head of Department of Social Policy in the North Luzin Institute for Economic Studies Kola Science Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences Apatity Russia

Monotowns in the Russian Arctic: time to change the track

4/2017 Pavel Druzhinin Leading Research Associate, Head, Dr. of Economics, Assistant Professor Institute of Economics Karelian Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Karelia – realities and outlooks

4/2017

Toman Barsbai Sebastian Braun

Senior Researcher Kiel Institute for the World Economy Germany Associate Professor in Economics University of St Andrews United Kingdom

The EU needs to fundamentally reform its asylum system

4/2017 Aija Lulle Dr, Post Doctoral Researcher University of Eastern Finland Finland

Evolving migrant identities: on Russian-speaking migrants from Latvia in Europe

4/2017 Egidijus Barcevičius Research Director PPMI Research & Advice Associate Professor Vilnius University Lithuania

Migration and the Lithuanian economy

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4/2017

Rimantas Stašys Gintautas Virketis

Professor, Head of Management Department Klaipeda University Lithuania Deputy Director The Klaipeda University Hospital Lithuania

Making Lithuanian emergency medical service (EMS) system more urgent

4/2017 Kari Liuhto Professor, Director Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics at University of Turku Finland

Ten mysteries related to the contemporary Russian economy

3/2017 Karin Enström Deputy Chair Foreign Affairs Committee Swedish Parliament Former Minister for Defence Sweden

Increased regional tensions in the Baltic Sea

3/2017 Iveta Grigule-Pēterse

Member of the European Parliament

Social tension and national security interests

3/2017 Hanna Kosonen Member of the Parliament Finland Member of the Finnish Delegation to the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference

Baltic Sea is a complex hotspot

3/2017 Oudekki Loone Member of Estonian Parliament Riigikogu Member of National Defence and European Affairs Committees Estonia

Is Germany aiming at French Force de frappe

3/2017 Vladimir Chizhov Ambassador Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the EU

The promise of a Russia-EU continental fulcrum

3/2017 Mykola Tochytskyi Ambassador Head of the Mission of Ukraine to the EU

Ukraine-EU relations: what’s next?

3/2017 Elena Tihonova Minister of Economic Development The Murmansk Region Russia

Heading to the Arctic: the Murmansk region today and tomorrow

3/2017 Urmas Sukles Mayor Town of Haapsalu Estonia

Haapsalu – the Nordic Venice

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3/2017 Vygantas Vareikis Professor of History, Head History Department University of Klaipeda Lithuania Member Klaipeda City Council Lithuania

The Baltics and Europe

3/2017

Gregory Olevsky

Timurs Safiulins

Professor University of Latvia Latvia Director Riga Municipal Agency «Riga Energy Agency» Latvia

Riga’s stakeholder identification and prioritization in the planning process of sustainable energy development of the city

3/2017 Łukasz Bielewski Director International Cooperation Department Office of the Marshal of the Warmińsko- Mazurskie Voivodeship Poland

Warmińsko-Mazurskie and Kaliningrad – neighbours, partners

3/2017 Katarzyna Maciejewska-Mieszkowska

PhD, Assistant Professor Institute of Political Science University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn Poland

Neighbors – Poles on Polish-Russian relations and Russians

3/2017 Zane Šime Communication & Research Coordinator CBSS Secretariat

Delivering Vilnius Vision for the Baltic Sea Region by 2020

3/2017 Martin Russell Policy Analyst European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) European Parliament Belgium

Media freedom in Putin’s Russia – back in the USSR?

3/2017 Mikko (Mikhail) Nesvitski

Editor in Chief Newspaper Karjalan Sanomat Petrozavodsk, Karelian Republic Russia

Present and future of minority language media in the Republic of Karelia

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3/2017

Epp Lauk Andres Jõesaar

Professor Department of Language and Communication Studies University of Jyväskylä Finland

Associate Professor Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School Tallinn University Estonia

Are the two different information spaces in Estonia getting closer to each other?

3/2017 James W. Scott Professor Karelian Institute University of Eastern Finland Finland Coordinator

Multilayered Borders of Global Security project (GLASE) funded by the Academy of Finland - Interdependence – an obsolete concept?

3/2017 Maria Domańska Senior Fellow Centre for Eastern Studies Poland

Russia 2018: no changes on the horizon

3/2017 Lili Di Puppo Dr., Assistant Professor of Sociology National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow Russia

Do we see better in an age of transparency?

3/2017 Juha Palokangas Manager, Russian Affairs, M.Sc. (For.) Finnish Forest Industries Federation Finland

About the significance of free trade to the vitality of the forest sector in northwest Russia

3/2017 David J. Smith Professor - Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies School of Social and Political Sciences University of Glasgow The United Kingdom

Russia and ‘Russian-speakers’ in the Baltic

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3/2017 Kristian Behrens Sergey Kichko

Professor Université du Québec à Montréal Canada Academic advisor Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia Research fellow CEPR The United Kingdom Director Center for Market Studies and Spatial Economics National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia

Cluster policy in Russia: do statesupported clusters leverage selforganized clusters?

3/2017

Tatjana Nikitina Maria Galper

Professor, Dr., Director Russian-German Centre International Centre for Financial Market Research St. Petersburg State University of economics Russia PhD student Department of Banking, Financial Markets and Insurance Leading Economist Russian-German Centre St. Petersburg State University of economics Russia

Trends in the development of banking business in Russia

3/2017 Zuzana Fungáčová Laura Solanko

Senior Adviser Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT) Bank of Finland Finland Senior Adviser Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT) Bank of Finland Finland

Russian banking sector – where to now?

3/2017 Nikita Lisitsyn CEO Seismo-Shelf Ltd. Russia

Import substitution and effective protectionism in Russia

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3/2017 Anatoly Zhuplev Professor Loyola Marymount University The U.S.A.

Russia: trends in inward foreign direct investments

3/2017 Maria Melnikova M.Sc. (Econ.& Bus.) International Affairs Specialist BusinessOulu Finland

Craziest pitching competition in the world attracts Russian startups

3/2017 Björn P. Jacobsen Anastasia Buyzhina

Professor, Dr. Stralsund University of Applied Sciences Germany Student Baltic Management Studies Program Stralsund University of Applied Sciences Germany

Russian FDI in Germany: a firm-level analysis

3/2017 Anatolii Kostiuk Dr., Associate Professor, Head Department of Sociocultural Service and Tourism Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Kaliningrad, Russia

Prospects of development of domestic and foreign tourism in Kaliningrad Region of Russia

3/2017 Irina Takala Ilya Solomeshch

Associate Professor Petrozavodsk State University Senior Researcher Institute of Language, Literature, and History Karelian Research Center The Rus Associate Professor Petrozavodsk State University Russia

Nordic Studies in Karelia: results and prospects

3/2017 Svetlana Shabaeva Doctor of Economics, Professor, Director Institute of Economics and Law Petrozavodsk State University Russia

Applying best Finnish practices in Russian regions: Occupational Barometer

3/2017 Susanna Rabow-Edling

Associate Professor of Political Science Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies Uppsala University Sweden

The 150th anniversary of the sale of Russian Alaska

3/2017 Jan Fałkowski Assistant Professor University of Warsaw Poland

Poland: how to sustain good economic performance?

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3/2017 Kim Wikström Professor Industrial management at Faculty of Science and Engineering Åbo Akademi University Turku Finland

Transparency improves sustainability in Baltic short-sea logistics

3/2017 Ain Kiisler Eero Naaber

Lecturer Estonian Maritime Academy Tallinn University of Technology Estonia Head Development and Innovation Estonian Maritime Administration Estonia

Estonia plans to bring more ships under Estonian flag

3/2017 Karsten Staehr Professor of International and Public Finance Tallinn University of Technology Estonia

Economic growth and convergence in the Baltic States

3/2017 Magnus Feldmann Senior Lecturer in Politics SPAIS University of Bristol The United Kingdom

The Baltic States and the euro crisis: learning the right lessons

3/2017 Petri Ekholm Senior Research Scientist Finnish Environment Institute SYKE Finland

Current care guidelines for the Baltic Sea

3/2017 Hanna Hagmark-Cooper

Ph.D., Director Åland Maritime Museum Trust Åland Islands Finland

Maritime museums: the custodians of our common Baltic heritage

3/2017 Irene Malgina PhD, Associate Professor Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of President of the Republic of Belarus Belarus

Entrepreneurial ecosystem: the case of Belarus

3/2017 Galina Gavrilko Associate Professor Faculty of International Relations Belarusian State University Belarus

Conceptual directions for the development of cooperation between the EAEU countries and Germany

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3/2017 Jeff Schubert Visiting Professor Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs Higher School of Economics, Moscow Russia

Putin’s unrealistic dreams about Russia in Eurasia

3/2017 Ulla Keino Eyden Samunderu

MSc.Tech., MBA, CEO, Chairman of the Board SeaFocus Finland PhD, Professor, Program Director International School of Management Dortmund Germany

CSCO – an important C-suite to the executive committees

3/2017 Otso Pohjalainen Freelance Journalist Finland

The healthy and ecofriendly roach

3/2017 Kari Liuhto Professor, Director Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku Finland

Future technology

2/2017 Andrei Kobyakov Prime Minister The Republic of Belarus

Belarus – EU: reliable neighbourhood turning stable partnership

2/2017 Nicola Sturgeon First Minister of Scotland

The future path of Scotland

2/2017 Micael Bydén General, Supreme Commander Swedish Armed Forces Sweden

Swedish defence in a changing security environment

2/2017 Liisa Ketomäki Managing Director Turku Music Festival 9.-19.8.2017 Turku, Finland

On the importance of cultural exchange

2/2017 Petri Sarvamaa Member of the European Parliament

The future of defence in Europe

2/2017 Jasenko Selimovic Member of the European Parliament Swedish Liberal Party (ALDE)

A too slow Energy Union

2/2017 Henrik Lax MEP 2004 – 2009 Finland

The EU is facing the moment of truth

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2/2017 Shawn Waddoups Chief Political and Economic Section U.S. Embassy in Helsinki

U.S. engagement in the Baltic Region

2/2017 Mikko Saikku McDonnell Douglas Professor of American Studies University of Helsinki Finland

Nothing new under the sun: Trump’s environmental policy

2/2017 Satu Kahkonen Country Director for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine The World Bank

An opportunity and challenges facing Belarus

2/2017 Vineta Polatside Senior Adviser and Head of Unit Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings Council of the Baltic Sea States

Human trafficking: a crime that is all of our responsibility - We need to do more

2/2017 Andrey Ryabov Editor-in-Chief “Mirovaya economica i mezhdunarodnye otnoshenia” Journal, also known as World Economy and International Relations Journal Russia

Post-Soviet space: current state and prospects

2/2017 Ari Korhonen Mayor City of Raisio Finland

Why would Tesla come to Finland?

2/2017 Madis Kallas Mayor of Kuressaare Chairman of Association of Local Governments of Saaremaa Estonia

Saaremaa – one island, one municipality

2/2017 Ritva Viljanen Deputy Mayor for Education and Cultural Affairs City of Helsinki Finland

Helsinki and Tallinn – happy siblings of the Baltic Sea

2/2017 Jussi Kekkonen Senior Partner Miltton Finland

New trends in strategic communications in the Baltic Sea region

2/2017 Vesa Taatila Dr. Prof. (adj), Rector-President Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland

A healthy Baltic Sea

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2/2017

Nikolaj Mezhevich Nadezhda Chukalova

Grand PhD in Economic sciences, Professor Department of International Relations Saint-Petersburg State University Russia Master’s Degree student Department of International Relations Saint-Petersburg State University Russia

Contemporary challenges to security in the eastern Baltic

2/2017 Wilhelm Agrell Professor in Intelligence Analysis Department of Political Science Lund University Sweden

Sweden’s Nato dilemma

2/2017 Grzegorz Jeleński COL, Defence, Military, Naval & Air Attaché Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Helsinki

Polish – Finnish military cooperation

2/2017 Heikki Pöntynen CEO Rauma Marine Constructions Oy Finland

Modern shipbuilding relies on a regional ecosystem

2/2017 Christian Weckman Country Manager Business Sweden Helsinki, Finland

Future of Swedish-Finnish trade relations

2/2017 Pekka Sutela Professor of Practice Lappeenranta University of Technology Finland

The future of Finnish – Russian economic relations

2/2017 Greg Simons Associate Professor Uppsala University and Swedish Defence University Sweden

Vladimir Putin’s political image: an inside and outside perspective

2/2017

Eduard Ponarin Michael Komin

Professor and Director Laboratory for Comparative Social Research NRU Higher School of Economics Russia Expert Centre for Strategic Development Russia

Imperial vs. ethnic identity: the choice of the Russian elite

2/2017 Anatoly Anokhin Professor Institute of Earth Sciences St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Tendencies and prospects of development of St. Petersburg agglomeration transport complex

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2/2017 Iwona Wiśniewska Senior Fellow Russian Department Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) Poland

Kaliningrad in the Kremlin’s policy

2/2017 Marina Kolosnitsyna

Professor Faculty of Economic Sciences National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia

Alcohol policy in Russia: recent experience and trends

2/2017 Tatiana G. Dolgopyatova

Doctor habil., Tenured Professor National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia

Corporate governance in Russian big business: trends of 2000s

2/2017 Natalia Tanshina Doctor of Historical Sciences Professor of the Department of General History Department of History of the Institute of Social Sciences Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Moscow, Russia

Autocratic Russia and liberal France: experience of cooperation and compromise

2/2017 Kim Talus Professor of European Energy Law UEF Law School Finland

Professor of Energy Law University of Helsinki Finland

Nord Stream 2 pipeline project under EU energy law

2/2017 Vassilen Iotzov Olena Nedozhogina JakobMarcks Clarissa Hirst

Communication and Capitalisation Officer Interreg South Baltic Programme Poland Communication and Capitalisation Intern Interreg South Baltic Programme Poland Communication and Capitalisation Intern Interreg South Baltic Programme Poland Communication and Capitalisation Intern Interreg South Baltic Programme Poland

Cross-border supply chains in the South Baltic LNG industry

2/2017 Alo Kelder Head New Energy Department Enefit Estonia

Estonia in pursuit of new data center parks

2/2017 Iwona Chojnowska-Haponik

Director Foreign Investment Department Polish Investment & Trade Agency Poland

What’s new in FDI?

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2/2017 Sven Ratnik Investor consultant, East Estonia Estonian Investment Agency Rakvere, Estonia

East-Estonia – a good living environment and attractive for entrepreneurship

2/2017 Ingvar Svanberg Sabira Ståhlberg

Senior Researcher Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Uppsala University Sweden PhD, Independent Researcher Helsinki, Finland

Tatars in the Baltic Sea region

2/2017 Csaba Jansik Principal Research Scientist Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) Finland

Are the Baltic Sea region’s food chains competitive?

2/2017 Ryhor Nizhnikau Senior Research Fellow Finnish Institute of International Affairs Helsinki, Finland

The political backlash against anticorruption reforms in Ukraine

2/2017 Outi Luova Adjunct Professor Centre for East Asian Studies University of Turku Finland

Japan Sea economic rim: from visions to action

2/2017 Mira Tuominen Research Assistant Pan-European Institute Finland

The Arctic – where are we going?

2/2017 Kari Liuhto Director, Professor Centrum Balticum Foundation Finland

Centrum Balticum Foundation 2007-2017: “Making the most of the Baltic Sea region”

1/2017 Olavi Ala-Nissilä Member of Finnish Parliament

Member of Grand Committee Finland

Former Member of the European Court of Auditors

Baltic Sea countries can offer lessons and boost to Finnish economy

1/2017 Solvita Āboltiņa Chairperson National Security Committee Latvia

The evolution of cyber security threats

1/2017 Mats Löfström Member of Parliament Finland

The need for longer perspectives in a fast moving world

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1/2017 Laimdota Straujuma

Dr. oec., Chairperson of the Sustainable Development Committee

Parliament of Latvia

Former Prime Minister of Latvia Latvia

Sustainable development of Latvia

1/2017 Joakim Strand Member of Parliament Chairman Vaasa City Council Finland

Vaasa - the Nordic energy capital

1/2017 Valdemaras Sarapinas

Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the Republic of Finland

Lithuania and Finland: shoulder to shoulder in ensuring security for themselves and the whole region

1/2017 Edward Hunter Christie

Defence Economist North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

Russia’s challenge to the security of NATO allies and partners in Northeast Europe

1/2017 Hannes Möllits Lecturer in International Relations Department of Political and Strategic Studies, Baltic Defence College Estonia

Russia: reaping the whirlwind in 2017?

1/2017 Uģis Romanovs Lecturer, Department of Military Studies Baltic Defence College, Estonia Researcher, Latvian Institute of International Affairs, Latvia

Defending Baltic States: overlooked importance of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa islands

1/2017 Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark

Associate Professor in International Law

Head of Research, Research project leader of the project “Demilitarisation in an increasingly militarised world. International perspectives in a multilevel regulatory framework – The case of the Åland Islands”

The Åland Islands Peace Institute Mariehamn, Finland

Thucydides, Melos and the Åland Islands

1/2017 Agnieszka Blokus-Roszkowska

Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics, Gdynia Maritime University Gdynia, Poland

Opportunities and challenges of the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) electricity network

1/2017 Anke Schmidt-Felzmann

Research Fellow Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden

Russia’s military aggression and the security threats posed by “purely commercial” projects in the Baltic Sea Region

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1/2017 Danila Bochkarev Senior Fellow EastWest Institute Brussels, Belgium

Additional routes will increase competition in European energy market

1/2017 Tor Morten Osmundsen

CEO Skangas (Norway) – a Gasum (Finland) subsidiary

The clean fuel opportunity in the Baltic Sea

1/2017 Esa Härmälä Frostia Oy, Founder Finland

The Baltic Sea Rim –Biomass base of Europe

1/2017 Edwin Bacon Reader in Comparative Politics Department of Politics Birkbeck, University of London UK

Russia’s parliament and the potential for political evolution

1/2017 Joscha Schwarzwälder

Project Manager Program Shaping Sustainable Economies, Bertelsmann Stiftung Germany

More and better investment in the labour market integration of refugees

1/2017 Holger Mölder Associate Professor in International Relations School of Business and Governance, Department of Law, Tallinn University of Technology Estonia

Information warfare – a Hobbesian concept of war in the post-truth era

1/2017 Heidi Zidan Producer Novosti Yle, Finland

Novosti Yle – Finnish news in Russian

1/2017 Olga Davydova-Minguet

Ph.D., University Researcher Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland Finland

Finland’s Russian speakers as media users

1/2017 Teemu Oivo Researcher Karelian Institute

Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies, University of Eastern Finland

Finland

The use of quantity as a competitive edge in Russian TV

1/2017 Irene Pendolin Communications Manager Union of the Baltic Cities Poland

Union of the Baltic Cities – communicating for a sustainable, smart and safe Baltic Sea Region

87

1/2017 Ivan Timofeev Director of Programs Russian International Affairs Council Russia

Security developments in the Baltic Sea Region

1/2017 Konstantin K. Khudoley

Professor, Head of Department of European Studies

School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University St. Petersburg, Russia

Highlights of the current state of international relations in Baltic Sea Region

1/2017 Anna Karlsdóttir Senior Research Fellow Nordregio Sweden

Securing Nordic Arctic sustainable development – Arctic cooperation in the Nordic realm

1/2017 Judyth L. Twigg Virginia Commonwealth University USA

Continued collaboration and vigilance against tuberculosis in Russia

1/2017 Peter W. Schulze Prof. h.c., Dr. Institute of Political Science Georg August University of Goettingen Germany

Geopolitical repercussions of a changing world order on Russian-EU relations

1/2017 Ilya Tarasov Professor, Dr. Baltic Federal Immanuel Kant University, Kaliningrad, Russia

Coherence between the interests of Russia and Germany in the Baltic States

1/2017 Jeremy Smith Professor of Russian History and Politics University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Where are Russia’s national minorities?

1/2017 Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus

Post-Doctoral Researcher EUROHERIT project, ERC Grant 636177 Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä Finland

Heritage in flux: Europeanization as identity politics

1/2017 Adelia Fatikhova Junior Researcher Centre for Competition and Economic Regulation Studies Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Russia

PhD Student Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Company towns in Russian Federation

1/2017 Gisela Grieger Policy Analyst European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS), European Parliament Belgium

China’s One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative: a win-win situation for the Baltic Sea Region (BSR)?

88

1/2017

Dirk Linowski Andrew Johansson

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c., Director Institute of International Business Studies Chair of Asset Management, Steinbeis University Berlin, Germany Economic Development Specialist, PhD Researcher, Steinbeis University Berlin, Germany

Gauging the impact of China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative on the Baltic Rim

1/2017

Tamas Matura

Dr., Assistant Professor of International Relations Corvinus University

Founder, Central and Eastern European Center for Asian Studies Budapest, Hungary

China and Central and Eastern Europe: threat or opportunity?

1/2017 Micael Blomster Managing Director/ Business Consultant, M. Blomster Consulting Oy

Member, Finnish - Swedish Chamber of Commerce

Member, Finncham Helsinki

Member, Yrittäjät Promoting Entrepreneurship

Finland

New Scandinavian rail hub for China traffic over North Finland

1/2017

Kari Reinikainen

Partner, Odo Maritime Research LLP Hastings and Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK

Chinese yards to challenge Europe in passenger ship building

1/2017 Ott Koppel PhD, Extraordinary Professor Research Centre of Logistics and Transport

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, Tallinn University of Technology Estonia

Some side notes about Rail Baltic

1/2017 Hiltgunt Fanning Professor University of Applied Sciences Stralsund, Germany

The economic development of the Baltic Sea Region - what major indicators tell us

1/2017 Birgitta Berg-Andersson

Researcher The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Finland

The impact of EU’s sanctions on Russia and Russia’s counter-sanctions on Finland’s exports to Russia

1/2017 Nikolai Kolesnikov Senior Researcher Institute of Economics Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Sanctions: no pain, no gain

89

1/2017

Tiiu Paas Maryna Tverdostup

Professor Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia Junior Research Fellow, PhD Student Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia

Human capital in Nordic Countries and Estonia: PIAAC-based assessment

1/2017 Jeff Schubert Head / Director, International Center for Eurasian Research Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) Moscow, Russia

Russia’s technology push: What is it? Who believes what?

1/2017 Džineta Dimante Associate Professor University of Latvia, Latvia

Towards circular economy in Latvia

6/2016 Jean-Claude Juncker President of the European Commission

Standing by Ukraine

6/2016 Tarja Halonen President of Finland 2000–2012

Chair International Advisory Board Centrum Balticum Foundation Turku, Finland

The future we want for the Baltic Sea region

6/2016 Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey Turkey’s humanitarian foreign policy

6/2016 Peter Stenlund Secretary of State Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

The security situation in the Baltic Sea region

6/2016 Emily O’Reilly European Ombudsman Regulating the revolving door between industry and politicians

6/2016 Antti Riivari Director (Director General as of 1 March 2017) Finnish Patent and Registration Office Finland

Businesses need knowledge of Intellectual Property Rights

6/2016 Saara Ilvessalo Henrik Ringbom

LL.M., Coordinator of BALEX Turku, Finland Adjunct Professor (Docent) of Maritime Law and the Law of the Sea Department of Law Åbo Akademi University Turku, Finland

BALEX – a new legal network for the world’s most regulated sea

90

6/2016 Jānis Vucāns Bodo Bahr

Vice-President of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference (BSPC) Former President of the BSPC (2015-2016) Member of the Saeima, The Republic of Latvia Professor in Business Management and Leading Researcher Ventspils University College, Latvia Secretary General Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference (BSPC)

The Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference

6/2016 Johanna Ojala-Niemelä

Member of Parliament Finland Finland´s Arctic cooperation has a long tradition

6/2016 Vygaudas Ušackas EU Ambassador to the Russian Federation EU-Russia relations: from strategic partnership to strategic challenge

6/2016 Guðmundur Árni Stefánsson

Ambassador and Chair of the CBSS Committee of Senior Officials

Ministry for Foreign Affairs Iceland

25 years of cooperation

6/2016 René Nyberg Former Finnish Ambassador to Moscow and Berlin

On the complexities of this world

6/2016 Aleksi Randell Mayor City of Turku

Chairman Executive Board Centrum Balticum Foundation Turku, Finland

Thinking and acting internationally is in the DNA of Turku

6/2016 Kalev Härk Mayor, City of Valga Estonia One city, two states – obstacle or opportunity?

6/2016 Denis Strandell Mayor, City of Hanko Finland Hanko, a small city by the sea, living off the sea

6/2016 Andrey Ermak Acting Minister of Culture and Tourism The Kaliningrad region, Russia

Development of tourism in the Kaliningrad region

6/2016 Malgorzata A. Wozniak

Head of Joint Technical Secretariat Lithuania-Poland-Russia Center of European Projects Warsaw, Poland

“Lithuania-Poland-Russia 2007-2014”: successful practice of a tripartite Cross-border Cooperation Programme

91

6/2016 Agnès Monfret Head European Cross-Border Cooperation Unit DG Regional & Urban Policy European Commission

Interreg Cross-Border Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region

6/2016 Eugene Eteris International Editor Baltic Course (www.baltic-course.com)

Professor European Studies Faculty Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), Latvia

Diplomacy in the Baltics: assisting growth and BSR’s development

6/2016

Volker Perthes Oliver Meier

Director Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) the German Institute for International and Security Affairs Berlin, Germany Deputy Head International Security Research Division Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) the German Institute for International and Security Affairs Berlin, Germany

The Baltic Sea Region: a geopolitical test bed for European Security

6/2016 Juha Pyykönen Chief Analyst, Security Analysis Co. Lic. Sos. Sc, Brigadier General (ret.) Finland

Military balance in the Baltic Sea Region is vital

6/2016 Vladimir Sazonov Lecturer Eastern European and Russian Studies Baltic Defence College Tartu, Estonia

Russian information aggression in Ukraine

6/2016 Henrik Breitenbauch

Director, Centre for Military Studies, Copenhagen University Denmark

Russia creates a greater Nordic region

6/2016 James Mashiri Major Finnish Defence Forces Finland

The icy logic of the Baltic Sea freeze

6/2016 Bettina Renz Associate Professor University of Nottingham The United Kingdom

What ‘hybrid warfare’ can and cannot tell us about Russian military strategy

6/2016 Henri Vanhanen BSocSc, University of Turku

The Ulkopolitist contributor, Finland

The Baltic Sea Region – seeking stability in a flux

92

6/2016 Antti Kaski PhD, Director for Policy Planning and Research

Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland

The importance of knowledge-based decision-making in a state of flux

6/2016 Mark Urnov Professor, Academic Supervisor of the School of Political Science Faculty of Social Sciences National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia

827 words about Russia’s future

6/2016 Grigorii V. Golosov Professor European University at St. Petersburg Russia

The state of Russia’s party system

6/2016 Esko Pihkala Journalist Turun Sanomat Turku, Finland

GOP forgot its proud history

6/2016 Magnus Rystedt Managing Director, NEFCO Innovation and green growth as guiding principles

6/2016 Pilvi Hämäläinen Investment Advisor and Country Representative Estonian Investment Agency Enterprise Estonia Helsinki, Finland

Finnish-Estonian economic cooperation boosted by new e-services

6/2016 Anastasia Sologub Specialist, International Cooperation Department North-West Development and Investment Promotion Agency, Russia

International projects as a basis for restoring relationship between Russia and the European Union

6/2016 Elina Björklund CEO Reima Oy Finland

Digitalizing a traditional product driven company

6/2016 Francesca Spigarelli Lv Ping

Director, Assistant Professor of Applied Economics The China Center University of Macerata Italy Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China

Chinese investments in Europe and the case of the renewable energy sector

6/2016 Inga Černiuk Chancellor, Ministry of Energy The Republic of Lithuania

GIPL project: interconnector to the European market

93

6/2016 Margot A. Loudon Deputy Secretary General, The European Association EUROGAS Belgium

Introducing the internal gas market

6/2016

Antto Vihma Mikael Wigell

Senior Research Fellow The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland Senior Research Fellow The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

The strategic case against Nord Stream II

6/2016 Ulrich Lissek Head of Communications and Governmental Relations, Nord Stream 2 AG, Zug, Switzerland

Nord Stream 2: Energy security and cooperation for decades to come

6/2016 Andrei Sannikov Amb., Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus (1995-1996)

Chairman of the European Belarus Foundation (Poland/Belarus) Presidential candidate in Belarus in 2010

Former political prisoner

Lessons from Belarus

6/2016 Anaïs Marin Assistant professor and Marie Curie Fellow, Collegium Civitas Warsaw, Poland

Belarus after the lifting of EU sanctions: a reset on Minsk’s terms

6/2016 Jouni Saarni Development Manager Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Maritime sector’s latest vision: Autonomous shipping – the Baltic Sea aimed to be the first testing area

6/2016

Jukka Teräs Mads Randbøll Wolff

Senior Research Fellow Nordregio Stockholm, Sweden Director Bæredygtighed 2030 Copenhagen, Denmark

Green transition and regional branding in the Baltic Sea Region

6/2016 Toni Laaksonen University lecturer Department of Biology University of Turku Finland

White-tailed eagle is an indicator for the health of the Baltic Sea ecosystem

94

6/2016 Ann-Mari Sätre Associate Professor of Economics Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Uppsala University Sweden

Social policy in Russia

6/2016 Sebastian Magier Head, International Permanent Secretariat Euroregion Baltic (eurobalt.org) Poland

Developing strategic youth policies in Baltic Sea Region

6/2016 Elisa Aro Doctoral Candidate Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Russian knowledge-driven investments in Finland

6/2016 Kari Liuhto Professor Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Finland’s nearly 100-year-old economic relations with Russia

5/2016 Roel Nieuwenkamp Chair OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct

Responsible business is key for the Baltic Rim Economies

5/2016 Anne Lammila Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s issues and Gender Equality Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

Women are the biggest emerging market

5/2016 Marja Innanen Deputy Secretary General National Commission on Sustainable Development Prime Minister’s Office Finland

The Finnish way to implement the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

5/2016 Juha Väätänen Professor, MNEmerge Project Director Lappeenranta University of Technology Finland

How multinational enterprises can contribute to global development challenges – MNEmerge project is searching for the answers

5/2016 Helena Kekki Manager FIBS Finland

Sustainable Development Goals – a shopping list of a wealthy customer?

95

5/2016 Magdalena Popowska

PhD, Vice-Dean for International and Public Affairs Assistant Professor Faculty of Management and Economics Gdansk University of Technology Poland

The main developments of the CSR initiatives in Poland

5/2016 Yury E. Blagov Director PricewaterhouseCoopers Center for Corporate Social Responsibility Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg University Russia

Support for local communities development in the corporate social performance “portfolio”: the case of leading Russian companies

5/2016 Leonardo Bremermann Mauro Rosa Valerie Monteiro

Ph.D. INESC P&D Brasil Brazil Ph.D. INESC P&D Brasil Brazil Eng. INESC P&D Brasil Brazil

Social commitment of the MNEs in the Brazilian electric sector

5/2016 Godfred Frembong Chief Research Scientist CSIR - Science and Technology Policy Research Institute Ghana

Contributions of multinational enterprises to economic development in Ghana

5/2016 Aashna Mehta Habib Hasan Farooqui Sakthivel Selvaraj

Research Associate Public Health Foundation of India India Associate Professor Public Health Foundation of India India Senior Health Economist Public Health Foundation of India India

How can MNEs contribute towards access to medicine in India?

5/2016 Michael Roe Professor Plymouth University The United Kingdom

Corporate Social Responsibility and the governance of international shipping

96

5/2016 Neil Bellefontaine Patrick Donner George Theocharidis Tafsir Johansson

Vice President (Academic), Professor World Maritime University Associate Academic Dean, Associate Professor World Maritime University Dr., Associate Professor World Maritime University Research Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate World Maritime University

EU stakeholder participation in the management of abandoned vessels: through the lens of Corporate Social Responsibility

5/2016 Adrian Braun Doctoral Candidate (Environmental Policy) Institute for Natural Resources, Environment and Society (LYY) University of Eastern Finland

Researcher Member of the Northern Political Economy team Arctic Centre – University of Lapland Finland

CSR in the European Arctic metal mining sector: dependencies and conflicts

5/2016 Linda Piirto Senior Advisor in CSR Ministry of Employment and the Economy Finland

Mapping stakeholder views on Finnish responsible business conduct

5/2016 Matti Kalervo Vice President, Corporate Responsibility Kesko Corporation Finland

Kesko is a pioneering company in responsibility

5/2016 Jenni Neste PhD Student University of Oulu

Environmental Expert Pöyry Finland Oy Finland

Corporate Social Responsibility requires active public engagement

5/2016 Suraksha Gupta Senior Lecturer in Marketing Kent Business School University of Kent The United Kingdom

Image of socially responsible organizations

5/2016 Sonja Vartiala Executive Director Finnwatch ry Finland

Future of CSR: increasing transparency and strategic cooperation between companies and NGOs

5/2016 Jaana Hirsikangas Women’s Bank Coordinator Finn Church Aid Finland

Women’s Bank gives women a chance

97

5/2016 Maria Joutsenvirta PhD, Researcher and changemaker Aalto University Sustainability-in-Business research group (sub.aalto.fi) Finland

We need a new economic story

5/2016 Mira Tuominen Research Assistant Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Changing the role of MNEs in building a better world

5/2016 Hanna Mäkinen Project Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Concluding remarks on the Special Issue on Corporate Social Responsibility

4/2016 Robert Fico Prime Minister Slovakia

Priorities of the Slovak Presidency of the Council of the European Union

4/2016 Kęstutis Trečiokas Minister of Environment Lithuania

Trends in the enhancement of energy performance of buildings in Lithuania

4/2016 Peter Christensen Minister of Defence Denmark

Nordic defence cooperation – and beyond

4/2016 Yu Qingtai Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Finland Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in the Republic of Finland

What does G20 Hangzhou Summit mean for Sino-Finnish cooperation

4/2016 Antti Rinne Leader The Social Democratic Party Finland

Time for a new direction

4/2016 Jukka-Pekka Ujula Mayor City of Porvoo Finland

Attractive coastal and archipelago regions at the threshold of a new era

4/2016 Elina Rantanen City counsellor II Vice-chairperson of the City Board City of Turku Finland

Southwest Finland aims to be a pioneer in climate politics

4/2016 Jaak Aaviksoo Rector, Professor Tallinn University of Technology Estonia

Baltic Rim universities: excellence, economic growth and future challenges

98

4/2016 Lars Rydén Professor The Baltic University Programme Centre for Sustainable Development Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden

University cooperation in the Baltic Sea region – after 25 years

4/2016 Henrik Hololei Director-General for Mobility and Transport European Commission

Making transport deliver for the Baltic Rim

4/2016 Anne Christine Brusendorff

General Secretary International Council for the Exploration of the Sea Copenhagen, Denmark

The Arctic – a strategic priority for ICES

4/2016 Brita Saxton Director General Transport Analysis Sweden

Maritime policy at a global arena

4/2016 Sakari Kuikka Professor in Fisheries Biology Kotka Maritime Research Centre University of Helsinki Finland

Oily risks of Gulf of Finland

4/2016

Otto Sormunen Pentti Kujala

PhD student Aalto University School of Engineering Research Group on Maritime Risk and Safety Finland Professor Aalto University School of Engineering Research Group on Maritime Risk and Safety Finland

Tanker spill risk in the Gulf of Finland: dire consequences, high uncertainty

4/2016 Juha Naukkarinen L.L.M., MBA, former Managing Director Finnish Energy Finland

Confidence in the emissions trading scheme and in the functioning of the electricity market must be restored

4/2016 Johan Dennelind President and CEO Telia Company Sweden

Digitalization provides the Nordic and Baltic States with an opportunity to build on its leadership

4/2016 Arkadiusz Michał Kowalski

Professor World Economy Research Institute Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) Poland

Poland, an emerging European ICT hub?

99

4/2016 Zane Šime Communication & Research Coordinator Permanent International Secretariat of the Council of the Baltic Sea States Stockholm, Sweden

CBSS science, innovation and research agenda: a promising start for accelerated cooperation

4/2016 Ruslan M. Shafiev Doctor of Economics, Professor of World Economy Plekhanov Russian University of Economics The Russian Federation

The transformational points of post-crisis development (innovations)

4/2016 Ilvija Bruge Researcher Latvian Institute of International Affairs Latvia

Ukraine and the not-so-successful reform process

4/2016 Tadeusz Iwański Senior Research Fellow The Centre for Eastern Studies Poland

Ukraine, Russia & the energy sector: from one dependency to another

4/2016 Yuval Weber Visiting Assistant Professor Government Department Harvard University USA

Kathryn W. and Shelby Davis Fellow Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University USA

Assistant Professor Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs National Research University – Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia

Growth or war: familiar challenges in Russian governance

4/2016 Artur Usanov Strategic Analyst The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies The Hague, the Netherlands

Energy security challenges in Kaliningrad

4/2016 Stanislav Tkachenko

Dr., Professor of Political Economy Saint-Petersburg State University Russia

Debates in Russia on closing of underperformed Special Economic ones

4/2016 Marcel H. Van Herpen

The Cicero Foundation The Netherlands

Putin’s propaganda machine

4/2016

Arild Moe Lars Rowe

Senior Research Fellow Fridtjof Nansen Institute Norway Senior Research Fellow Fridtjof Nansen Institute Norway

The Arctic Route: a Russian ploy?

100

4/2016 Thomas F. Remington

Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science Emory University Atlanta, GA, USA

Inequality and the broken social contract in Russia

4/2016 Anna Lukiyanova Senior Researcher Centre for Labour Market Studies Higher School of Economics, Moscow Russia

Reforming the minimum wage in Russia

4/2016 Irina Denisova Assistant Professor New Economic School Moscow, Russia

Fighting inequality: back to Policy Agenda in Russia

4/2016 Karen Grigoryan Head of Invest in Finland operations in Russia Finpro Finland

Finland offers business opportunities for Russian companies

4/2016 Niko Helle Graduate student of International Business Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Development of e-commerce in Russia: from crisis to bright future?

4/2016 Katri Pynnöniemi Charly Salonius-Pasternak

Senior research fellow The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland Senior research fellow The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Security in the Baltic Sea Region: activation of risk potential

4/2016 Tomi Pajarinen H.B.A., Ph.D. Candidate Centre d’Études Diplomatiques et Stratégiques Paris, France

The case for increasing defence expenditures in the democratic Baltic Rim countries

4/2016 Jari Haapala Research Professor, Head of Marine Research Finnish Meteorological Institute Helsinki, Finland

Blue Growth – a facelift or a new model to utilize marine resources?

4/2016 Outi Setälä Senior Research Scientist Finnish Environment Institute Marine Research Centre Finland

Marine litter challenges stakeholders

101

4/2016

Roberts Jūrmalietis Lilita Ābele

Assistant professor, Ph.D Environmental Research Center Liepāja University Latvia Lecturer, PhD candidate Environmental Research Center Liepāja University Latvia

Ecotechnology as an approach for sustainability studies

4/2016 Marie C. Nordström PhD, Senior Researcher Environmental and Marine Biology Åbo Akademi University Finland

Networks for networks, or the changing Baltic Sea

4/2016 Mark Bassin Baltic Sea Professor of the History of Ideas Center for Baltic and East European Studies Södertörn University Stockholm, Sweden

The enigma of Eurasianism

4/2016 Ionut Purica Professor Hyperion University

Director Advisory Center for Energy and Environment Romania

Europe reloaded

4/2016 Hanna Sofia Rehnberg

Senior lecturer School of Culture and Education Södertörn University Sweden

Strategic storytelling in the public sector – not the same old story

4/2016 Kari Liuhto Professor of International Business Turku School of Economics Finland

Foreigners at the heart of Russian economic power

3/2016 Ola Elvestuen Member of the Norwegian Parliament Norway

OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative for Arctic Issues

20 years of peaceful cooperation in the Arctic

3/2016 Aleksi Härkönen Ambassador for Arctic Affairs Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland Finland

The role of Finland in Arctic cooperation

3/2016 Hannele Pokka Permanent Secretary Ministry of the Environment Finland

Clean technology brings new prospects in the north

3/2016 Marja-Leena Vuorenpää

Senior Adviser Former chair of the BEAC CSO Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland Finland

The role of Barents cooperation in the development of the European Arctic

102

3/2016 Fujio Ohnishi Assistant Professor, Ph.D College of International Relations Nihon University Japan

The Arctic concert system and its challenges

3/2016 Liu Xu

Research Fellow National Academy of Development and Strategy

Assistant Professor School of International Studies Renmin University of China China

China-Russian Arctic cooperation: black gold and beyond

3/2016 Timo Laukkanen Senior Adviser Confederation of Finnish Industries EK Finland

Action to enable more sustainable business in the Arctic

3/2016 Gunn-Britt Retter Head of Arctic and Environmental Unit Saami Council

Challenges and opportunities in the development of the Arctic region from the perspective of the Saami

3/2016 Satu Miettinen Professor University of Lapland Finland

Arctic design: creating innovation and competitive edge in the north

3/2016 Rauno Posio Visit Arctic Europe, Project Leader Arctic Economic Council, Representative for Finland

Visit Arctic Europe: making cross-border cooperation

3/2016 Susan Chatwood Greg Poelzer

Executive and Scientific Director Institute for Circumpolar Health Research Assistant Professor Dalla Lana School of Public Health University of Toronto Canada Professor School of Environment and Sustainability University of Saskatchewan Canada

Social determinants of health in Arctic regions

3/2016 Ilona Mettiäinen Researcher Arctic Centre University of Lapland Finland

There is no “one-size-fits-all” in Arctic climate change adaptation

3/2016 Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen

Professor of Russian energy policy University of Helsinki Finland

Russia’s Arctic paradoxes

103

3/2016 Daria Gritsenko PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the project “Russia’s final energy frontier – Sustainability challenges of the Russian Far North” Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

What does the case of Sabetta tell us about the relationship between energy and regional development?

3/2016 Andrey Shadurskiy Senior lecturer School of International Relations St. Petersburg State University Russia

Russia’s LNG projects in the Arctic: still on track?

3/2016 Tomoko Tabata PhD Economics, Associate Researcher Hokkaido University Japan

Demographic trend in the Russian High North

3/2016 Masahiro Tokunaga PhD, Vice Dean and Professor Faculty of Business and Commerce Kansai University Japan

The Russian Arctic and environmental discourse

3/2016 Shinichiro Tabata Director and Professor Slavic-Eurasian Research Center Hokkaido University Japan

Research on the socio-economic development of the Russian Far North

3/2016

Eini Haaja Hanna Mäkinen

University Teacher Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland Project Researcher Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Need for international research on international business in the Russian Far North

2/2016 Olli Rehn Minister of Economic Affairs Finland

The energy security of the supply to Finland and the Balticconnector project

2/2016 Liisa Oviir Minister of Entrepreneurship Estonia

Recent development trends in e-Estonia

2/2016 Vladimir Zinovskiy Minister of Economy The Republic of Belarus

Belarus sails from turbulence of past challenges to quiet haven of advantages

2/2016 Miapetra Kumpula-Natri

Member of European Parliament Steps towards an integrated Energy Union

2/2016 Ann-Marie Nyroos Ambassador of Finland to Denmark Denmark and Finland: Nordics together

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2/2016 Sergey Kizima Head Department of International Relations Academy of Public Administration under the aegies of the President of Republic of Belarus

Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration (2014-2017) Belarus

The role of economic diplomacy in the foreign policy of the Republic of Belarus

2/2016

Vatanyar Yagya Sergey Kustov

Professor School of International Relations St. Petersburg State University Russia Postgraduate student School of International Relations St. Petersburg State University Russia

25 years of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference

2/2016 Wojciech Szczurek Mayor of Gdynia Poland

Gdynia’s international cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region

2/2016 Jørgen H. Kristiansen

Deputy Mayor City of Kristiansand Norway

Member of the UBC Executive Board

Cooperation and exchange

2/2016 Risto E. J. Penttilä President and CEO Finland Chamber of Commerce Finland

Why we need a new Nordic treaty

2/2016 Markku Kakriainen CEO, President South Savo Chamber of Commerce Finland

Finland: wedged in between superpowers

2/2016 Michael Miatlikov Chairman Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Belarus

Role of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in promoting bilateral trade and economic relations drawing on the example of Belarus and Finland

2/2016 Alise Barvika Head of the Representative Office in Finland Investment and Development Agency of Latvia

Finnish-Latvian cooperation and the growth potential in the region

2/2016 Antti Vasara President & CEO, Dr. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd Finland

Innovations boosting prosperity

105

2/2016 Annaleena Mäkilä Managing Director Finnish Port Association Finland

Intelligent investments in Finnish ports?

2/2016 Ari-Jussi Knaapila Jukka-Pekka Joensuu

CEO Cinia Group Ltd Finland Executive VP Cinia Group Ltd Finland

A maritime cable from Finland to Central Europe: Baltic Sea area becoming a new data hub and connecting European Single Market

2/2016 Juha Vauhkonen Commodore Chief of Staff Navy Command Finland

The Finnish navy safeguards merchant shipping connections

2/2016 Reijo Karhinen President and Executive Chairman OP Financial Group Finland

Job creation in Finland rests on small and mid-size enterprises

2/2016 Sergei Roumas Chairman of the Management Board JSC “Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus” Belarus

Development Bank of the Republic of Belarus: evolution of success

2/2016 Pekka Vauramo CEO Finnair Finland

Connecting the Baltic rim to Asia: Finnair's mission

2/2016 Mika Anttonen Chairman of the Board St1 Nordic Oy Finland

Blending mandate for advanced biofuels

2/2016 Vyacheslav Demidkov

Deputy Director for Foreign Economic Activity Energopro Group Minsk, Belarus

The world best experience of energy – to Belarus: the development of dialogue with Scandinavian countries and Finland

2/2016 Susanna Juusti Key Account Manager, VP, Partner ID BBN Finland

Modern marketing uses digitalization to demonstrate standout ROI

2/2016 Karlis Bukovskis Deputy Director Latvian Institute of International Affairs Latvia

A glimpse of today’s history: technology, reactionary politics and Europeanization

2/2016 Marco Siddi Dr, Senior Research Fellow Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

The EU’s Energy Union: reconciling climate goals with energy security?

2/2016 Sam Perlo-Freeman Head of the Military expenditure project Arms and military expenditure programme SIPRI Sweden

Military expenditure in the Baltic region

106

2/2016 Kenneth Rosenqvist Major, Commanding Officer Flight Operations Unit Finnish Border Guard Air Patrol Squadron Finland

The Finnish Border Guard's Air Patrol Squadron

2/2016 Tomas Jermalavičius Head of Studies International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) Estonia

‘Hybrid war’, societal resilience and deterrence

2/2016 Påhl Ruin Freelance writer Vilnius, Lithuania

Information war in Lithuania

2/2016 Piret Pernik Research Fellow International Centre for Security and Defence Estonia

Cyber security concerns bear the intensifying of Nordic-Baltic cooperation

2/2016 Birgit Hansl Andras Horvai

Program Leader and Lead Economist World Bank Country Director World Bank

The Russian economy: a difficult year behind and further adjustments ahead

2/2016 Mark N. Katz Professor of Government and Politics George Mason University USA

Putin’s foreign policy and Russia’s long-term interests

2/2016 Peter Rutland Visiting Leverhulme Professor University of Manchester The United Kingdom

Threats to stability in Putin’s Russia

2/2016 Katja Lehtisaari Post-Doctoral Researcher Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Position of commercial media in Russia

2/2016 Jussi Lassila Post-Doctoral Researcher Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Nationalism in Russia and its reflections in the Baltic Sea region

2/2016 Nataliya S. Karpova

Associate Professor Department of World Economy and International Politics National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) Russia

International business in Russia, 2014-2016: stress-test for sales and investments

2/2016 Tapio Lautsi CEO, Partner Oy RegIT Ab Finland

The impact of EU sanctions and the Russian counter sanctions to the economies in Baltic Sea area

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2/2016 Anna Pivovarchuk Deputy Managing and Culture Editor Fair Observer USA

Russia’s ever-evolving drug problem

2/2016 Svetlana Stepanova Ph. D. in Economics, Research Fellow Institute of Economics Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Tourism development in border regions of Northwest Russia

2/2016 Krzysztof Żęgota Ph.D., Assistant Professor Institute of Political Science University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn Poland

Mechanism of local border traffic on Polish-Russian border

2/2016 Ilja Viktorov PhD, Researcher Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Uppsala University Sweden

What happened to the Russian economy after 2012?

2/2016 Mark-Oliver Teuber Freelance author and scientist Economic Trends Research (ETR) Hamburg, Germany

Trade patterns and economic structure in the Baltic Sea region

2/2016 Yoji Koyama Professor Emeritus Niigata University Japan

Euro and the Baltic States

2/2016 Jean-Paul Larçon Emeritus Professor HEC Paris France

Co-Chairman Baltic Management Institute (BMI) Lithuania

China's “Belt and Road” initiative and the Baltic Sea region

2/2016 Ossi Westilä

Manager of Simulator Training Senior Lecturer, Captain Aboa Mare Finland

Aboa Mare Maritime Academy and Training Center: Arctic Waypoint Finland

2/2016 Juha Flinkman

Dr., Development Manager Research Vessels/Marine Scientist Marine Research Center Finnish Environment Institute Finland

The Baltic Sea: from a clear subarctic pearl to a murky backwater – and back?

2/2016 Haik Thomas Porada

Dr., Senior Researcher Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig, Germany

Economic, political and cultural contacts have constituted the Baltic region for centuries

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2/2016 Ted Wallin CEO Gallery ArtBank Finland

Do I have the right to someone else’s madness?

2/2016 Kari Liuhto Professor Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Foreign investment inflow to Russia practically stopped in 2015

1/2016 Martin Schulz President The European Parliament

The refugee crisis is an opportunity for Europe's governments to get their act together

1/2016 Kimmo Tiilikainen Minister of Agriculture and the Environment Finland

Nutrient recycling: towards a cleaner Baltic Sea

1/2016 Bodil Valero Member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Greens

Coordinator for the Green group in the sub-committee on Security and Defence The European Parliament

Don't return to the (c)old security order

1/2016 Saara-Sofia Sirén

Member of Finnish Parliament and Environment Committee National Coalition Party Finland

Vice chair Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference delegation

Could Circular Economy save the Baltic Sea?

1/2016 Mika Kari Member of Parliament Social Democratic Parliamentary Group

Vice chair Defence committee Parliament of Finland Finland

Towards active cooperation in defence

1/2016 Charles C. Adams, Jr.

Ambassador to the Republic of Finland The United States of America

T-TIP: a historic opportunity to jump start the Finnish economy

1/2016 Hanna Lehtinen Ambassador Embassy of Finland, Warsaw

Finland and Poland: neighbours united by the Baltic Sea

1/2016 Przemysław Grudziński

Ambassador of the Republic of Poland in Finland

Polish CBSS presidency: building block for today and future Baltic Sea cooperation

1/2016 Andris Teikmanis Ambassador of Latvia in the United Kingdom

Latvian-British relations

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1/2016 Kenji Shinoda Ambassador Embassy of Japan in Helsinki

Arctic collaboration: Japan as catalyst for Barents Region cooperation

1/2016 Tero Vauraste CEO Arctia Shipping Ltd Finland

Vice-Chair Arctic Economic Council

Polar bridging of East and West through North

1/2016 Päivi Nerg Permanent Secretary Ministry of the Interior Finland

Refugee issue and Finland

1/2016 Alexander Khudilainen

Head The Republic of Karelia Russia

Federal Target Programme of the Republic of Karelia: new perspectives for the region and investors

1/2016 Madis Tilga Adviser Nordic Council of Ministers’ office Estonia

Beyond green growth: bioregions

1/2016

Rauli Svento Matti Sarén Jouko Niinimäki

Professor University of Oulu Finland Vice-Rector University of Oulu Finland Rector University of Oulu Finland

The University of Oulu: new solutions in the middle of hard structural changes

1/2016 Andrey Shapenko Project Leader SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO Russia

Responding to challenges: how business schools can stay competitive in the 21st century

1/2016 Barry D. Mowell Senior Professor of International Studies Broward College The USA

Defenses bolstered in Baltic States and Eastern Europe amid mounting security concerns

1/2016 Christoph Berlich M.A., Project Assistant The German Institute for International and Security Policy, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) Berlin Germany

Cyber-security cooperation in the Baltic States: an example for European cyber-security integration

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1/2016 Gene Zolotarev Publisher The Baltic Times Latvia

The Baltic Times and media development in the Baltic States

1/2016 Esa Hämäläinen Professor, Director Brahea Centre University of Turku Finland

Forecasting the costs of maritime logistics: challenges continue

1/2016 Paul Gregory Professor of Economics University of Houston

Research Associate Hoover Institution Stanford The USA

The Putin regime jousts with international law

1/2016 Hans van Koningsbrugge

Professor in Russian History and Politics University of Groningen Netherlands

Russia and the Netherlands: just good friends?

1/2016 Igor Gurkov Distinguished University Professor National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow Russia

Foolishness, obstinacy or wisdom? Recently opened Russian factories of Western MNC

1/2016 Andrey Terekhov Stanislav Tkachenko

Professor of Software Engineering Saint-Petersburg State University Russia Professor of Economics Saint-Petersburg State University Russia

Political economy of Russia’s IT sector

1/2016 Rolf Fredheim Research Associate Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities University of Cambridge The United Kingdom

What kind of control does Putin have over Russian media?

1/2016 Petr M. Mozias Associate Professor of International Economics and Chinese Studies The National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow Russia

Russia: this time is different

1/2016 Dmitry Zimin Research Fellow Karelian Institute University of Eastern Finland Finland

The Solovetsky Islands: challenges of economic development

111

1/2016 Veera Laine Research Fellow The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Shifting dynamics in the Russian civil society

1/2016 Maija Penttilä Senior Lecturer, Adjunct Professor (Docent) in Church and Social Studies Faculty of Theology University of Helsinki Finland

Russian-speaking Evangelical communities in the Helsinki metropolitan area

1/2016 Claes G. Alvstam Professor of International Economic Geography School of Business, Economics and Law University of Gothenburg Sweden

The external trade relations between the EU and the Russian Federation: no energy outside energy

1/2016 Thomas Pellerin-Carlin

Research Fellow on European Energy Policy Jacques Delors Institute France

Ensuring the EU energy security vis-a-vis Russia

1/2016 Mykhailo Gonchar President The Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI

Head The Kyiv International Energy Q-Club Ukraine

Natural gas transit through Ukraine under the conditions of hybrid warfare

1/2016 Kristi Raik Senior Research Fellow The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Ukraine has brought threat perceptions of the Baltic Sea states closer to each other

1/2016 Sergiy Kurbatov Affiliated researcher Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies University of Uppsala Sweden

Broken “brotherhood”? The dramatic changes in mutual attitudes among Ukrainian and Russian population in 2013-2015

1/2016 Hanni Hyvärinen Initiator and coordinator of the project “Apua Ukrainan pakolaisille”

Press and Cultural Attaché Embassy of Finland in Kyiv from 2004 to 2007 Finland

Helping Ukrainian IDPs

1/2016 Nina Tynkkynen Senior lecturer Baltic Sea Region Studies University of Turku Finland

Russia and international environmental politics: lessons to learn from the Baltic Sea cooperation

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1/2016 Hanna Lankinen Head of Business Development Invest in Finland Finland

Finland offers broad palette of investment opportunities

1/2016 Jānis Ikstens Professor in Comparative Politics University of Latvia Latvia

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1/2016 Risto Hiekka Chairman Castor Construction Sia

Chairman Finnish Latvian Trade Association Finland

Latvian economy as a business environment for a Nordic SME company

1/2016 Sigitas Brazinskas Lecturer Vilnius Gediminas Technical University Lithuania

Role of regional integration in market selection: the case of SMEs

1/2016 Lidia Danik Izabela Kowalik

PhD, Assistant Professor Institute of International Management and Marketing Warsaw School of Economics Poland PhD, Associate Professor Institute of International Management and Marketing Warsaw School of Economics Poland

The Polish international new ventures: strategies and success factors

1/2016 Marian Gorynia Jan Nowak Piotr Trąpczyński Radosław Wolniak

PhD, Professor Poznań University of Economics Poland PhD, Professor IBD Business School Poland PhD, Assistant Professor, supported by the Foundation for Polish Science (FNP) Poznań University of Economics Poland PhD, Senior Lecturer University of Warsaw Poland

FDI from Central and Eastern Europe: the Polish perspective

1/2016 Tiia Vissak Senior Researcher University of Tartu Estonia

Estonian evidence on exporters’ nonlinear internationalization

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1/2016 Irina Rannak Lecturer Institute of Economics, Tallinn Estonia

Socio-cultural identification of Russian-speaking population of Estonia in the evolution of tourism activity

1/2016 Liudmila Voronova PhD in Media and Communication Studies, Senior Lecturer University of Gävle Sweden

The mediated “Russian world”: gender perspective

5/2015 Valdis Dombrovskis Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of the Euro and Social Dialogue

Ukraine – defending our values

5/2015 Marju Lauristin Vice-President of the S&D Group in European Parliament

Member of the EP Delegation for Ukraine

Reforms in Ukraine pave the road to Europe

5/2015 Jens Nilsson MEP for the Swedish Social Democratic Party (S&D)

Co–president of Social Economy Intergroup European Parliament

Social economy – a key role in renewing the Nordic welfare model

5/2015 Alexander Rumyantsev

Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Finland

Russo-Finnish relations about to turn 95

5/2015 Hanna Westerén County of Gotland Member of Swedish Parliament Sweden

The opportunity of a lifetime for coastal and island communities to make a difference

5/2015 Henrik Lax Member of the European Parliament 2004 – 2009

The Åland regime after Crimea

5/2015 Elisabeth Nauclér Director General to the Åland Government (1999-2006) MP (2007-2015)

The neutralization of the Åland Islands

5/2015 Lars Strannegård Professor, President Stockholm School of Economics Sweden

The power of education

5/2015 Laila Kildesgaard Executive Director Regional Municipality of Bornholm Denmark

Bright Green Island – from vision to realisation in 10 years A vision for Bornholm, the Danish Baltic Sea island of around 40 000 inhabitants

5/2015 Anastasiya Kuznetsova

Minister of Economics The Kaliningrad Region The Russian Federation

Economic development of the Kaliningrad region

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5/2015 Tarja Nuotio Regional Development Director Regional Council of Southwest Finland Finland

Southwest Finland – at the heart of the Baltic Sea?

5/2015 Adolf Wysocki Ph.D., Honorary Consul of Finland with jurisdiction over the West Pomeranian Voivodeship Poland

”All change, please?” – the need for innovation and a new perspective

5/2015 Anu Fredrikson Advisor Political Affairs and Arctic Policy Embassy of Finland in Oslo

The Arctic – a possibility for future sustainable growth

5/2015 Hans Jørgen Koch Executive Director Nordic Energy Research under the auspices of the Nordic Council of Ministers

Bridging the Baltic with electricity

5/2015 Tapio Pekkola Communications Manager EU and Nordic Policies Nord Stream AG Switzerland

Nord Stream 2 – building upon experience and securing Europe’s energy supplies

5/2015 Nataliya S. Karpova

Associate Professor Department of World Economy and International Politics National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) Russia

International gas projects of Russia in the context of changing economic paradigm

5/2015 Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney

Professor, Dr., Head Department of Political Science and International Relations, Istanbul Yildiz Technical University Turkey

The future of EU’s energy supply security?

5/2015 András Rácz Senior Research Fellow Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Belarus – sovereignty decreasing?

5/2015 Roger Roffey Swedish Defence Research Agency, FOI Sweden

Russian policies not adapted to the effects of climate changes in northern Russia

5/2015 Matthew Kott Researcher Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Uppsala University Sweden

Becoming more “European” – in the wrong way

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5/2015 Mikhail Denisenko Deputy Director Institute of Demography National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia

Recent development in emigration from Russia

5/2015

Sergey N. Lavrov Nina V. Ershova

Professor, Head International Business Division National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia Ph.D., Research Fellow Institute for Industrial and Market Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia

Japanese investment in Russia

5/2015 Ruslan Shafiev Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor Russian Economic University of G. V. Plekhanov Russia

Integration processes in the former Soviet Union

5/2015 Maria Kazakova Ph.D., Deputy Head International Department for Fiscal Sustainability Studies Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Russia

Resource curse and Russian economy – current situation and challenges for the future

5/2015 Soile Tirri Executive Director Finland-Russia Society in Turku Finland

The future of Finnish-Russian cooperation – to be or not to be?

5/2015 Alexey Golubev Ph.D. Candidate in History The University of British Columbia Canada

Docent The Institute of History, Political and Social Sciences Petrozavodsk State University Russia

Republic of Karelia – an after-life of socialist nation-building

5/2015 Yuliya Zabyelina Assistant Professor John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York The USA

Drug trafficking trends in the Baltic Sea Region

5/2015 Mikhail Durkin Executive Secretary Coalition Clean Baltic Sweden

Battle of the Baltic1 – deeds that count

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5/2015 Sari Oksanen Mervi Kunnasranta Markus Ahola

Ph.D. Candidate University of Eastern Finland Finland Senior Researcher, Ph.D. University of Eastern Finland Finland Research Scientist, Ph.D. Natural Resources Institute Finland Finland

Seals without borders – Baltic Rim countries share the same seals

5/2015 Gregory Kantorovich Anatoliy Tsirkunov

Professor National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow Russia BSc in Economics LSE, The UK HSE, Russia

Total negative effect on environment and economic growth

5/2015 Wiktor Patena Ph.D., MBA Program Chair Higher Colleges of Technology United Arab Emirates

Former Rector WSB-National Louis University Nowy Sacz Poland

Privatization in Poland – phasing out or reversal?

5/2015

Piotr Mielus Tomasz Mironczuk

Assistant professor, Ph.D. Warsaw School of Economics (Szkoła Główna Handlowa), Projet Manager Gdańsk Institute for Market Economics (Instytut Badań nad Gospodarką Rynkową) Poland Director Gdańsk Institute for Market Economics (Instytut Badań nad Gospodarką Rynkową) Poland

Benchmarks reform – time for change

5/2015 Katarzyna Byrka-Kita

Ph.D., Associate Professor Faculty of Economics and Management University of Szczecin Poland

The Warsaw Stock Exchange at a crossroads

5/2015 Barbara Czerniachowicz

Ph.D., Assistant Professor University of Szczecin Poland

Polish regional approach to innovation system

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5/2015 Dominika V. Polanska

PhD in Sociology Institute of Housing and Urban Research (IBF) Uppsala University Centre for Baltic and East European Studies Södertörn University Sweden

Polish civil society in bloom

5/2015 Liisi Esse Assistant Curator for Estonian and Baltic Studies Stanford University Libraries The USA

The Baltic Studies Program of Stanford University Libraries

4/2015 Corina Crețu Commissioner European Commission

The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

4/2015 Urmas Paet Member European Parliament Foreign Minister of Estonia 2005-2014 Estonia

Kazakhstan's economic limbo between the EU and Russia

4/2015 Ashok Kumar Sharma

Ambassador of India, Helsinki Opportunities for Finnish companies in ‘Make in India’ Programme

4/2015 Taneli Lahti Head Cabinet of Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commission Vice-President for the Euro and Social Dialogue European Commission

Economic reforms — are they worth it?

4/2015 Arto Räty Permanent Secretary Ministry of Defence of Finland

Chairman Security Committee of Finland Finland

The Baltic Sea — a geostrategic playing field?

4/2015 Tomas Janeliūnas Professor Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilnius University Lithuania

Cyber and information security challenges — in search for a joint concept

4/2015 Magdalena Kotnis PhD, President West Pomerania Agency for Regional Development Poland

The right time to use the potential of the West Pomerania Region to develop the Baltic Sea Region

4/2015 Kimmo Jarva Mayor City of Lappeenranta Finland

Lappeenranta is building a future at the gate between East and West

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4/2015 Kristina Pingoud Senior Adviser Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

Council of the Baltic Sea States, more coherence to the regional cooperation

4/2015 Olga Pavuk Dr., Founder, Editor-in-Chief The Baltic Course Latvia

The Baltic States and social integration

4/2015 Antti Kuronen Reporter Foreign News Finnish Broadcasting Company, YLE Finland

Increased pressure on journalists in Eastern Ukraine

4/2015 Joakim Ekman Professor of Political Science Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) Södertörn University Sweden

Popular support for democracy in the Baltic states

4/2015 Erkka Railo Senior Research Fellow The Department of Political Science and Contemporary History University of Turku Finland

Divided by history — the reactions of the Baltic Sea countries to the refugee crisis

4/2015 Vesa Vihriälä Managing Director Research Institute of the Finnish Economy Finland

Four countries – four stories: how macroeconomic outcomes vary

4/2015 Kari Kauniskangas President and CEO YIT Finland

YIT in Russia and the Baltic Sea Region

4/2015 Maaret Heiskari Experienced leader in Russian business Finland

Perspectives of building industry in Russia

4/2015 Pasi Vänttinen Founder, Managing Partner, Entrepreneur Vana Capital & Ventures Finland

We need more leadership and less management in organizations for new innovations, productivity rise and economic growth in the future

4/2015 Hannu Pirilä Investment Director Folmer Management Oy Finland

Finnish SMEs are still seeking growth – who is willing to carry the risk?

4/2015 Andis Kudors Executive Director The Centre for East European Policy Studies Latvia

‘Multipolar world’ as perceived by Russia

119

4/2015 Emmanuel Karagiannis

Dr., Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) Department of Defence Studies King’s College London The United Kingdom

The new Greek-Russian relationship — rhetoric or reality?

4/2015 Christer Pursiainen Dr., Professor of Societal Safety and Environment Arctic University of Norway Norway

Regional councils and the EU-Russian crisis

4/2015 Andrey Olshtynsky Ph.D. (Economics), Lecturer, Business Consultant in Corporate Finance Moscow Financial - Judicial Academy Russia

Reversed the vector of 30th years reforms in Russia is the one way ticket

4/2015 Kalle Kniivilä Journalist Sydsvenska Dagbladet Sweden

Less bread means more circuses

4/2015

Vatanyar Yagya Julia Drozdovskaya

Professor St. Petersburg State University Russia Post-Graduate Student St. Petersburg State University Russia

The role of St. Petersburg in the development of Russian-Finnish relations in the 21st century

4/2015 Panu Ståhlberg CEO St. Petersburg foundation governing the House of Finland

Lawyer Russian desk Ylikraka attorneys-at-law Finland

The House of Finland concept – the key asset to maintain Finland´s position in St. Petersburg area

4/2015 Viacheslav Shironin Professor St. Petersburg State University of Economics Russia

Russia — a holographic culture

4/2015 Pasi Nurkka CEO Research and Analysis Centre TAK Finland

Overview of the Russian tourism in the summer of 2015

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4/2015 Juulia Räikkönen Antti Honkanen

Post-Doctoral Researcher Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland Professor, Director Centre for Tourism Studies University of Eastern Finland Finland

The Helsinki–Tallinn tunnel – possibilities for Finnish and Estonian tourism

4/2015 Anne Paasi Communications Director University of Turku Finland

University Communications full of opportunities

4/2015 Ulla Nygrén Library Director University of Turku Finland

Less is more — how a university library turned rationalizing process into a new service concept

4/2015 Ville Laamanen Post-Doctoral Researcher in Contemporary History University of Turku

Former Academic Director of Baltic Sea Region Studies Finland

Integrating academic analysis with topical issues of the Baltic Sea region

4/2015 Bo Österlund Commodore (ret) Finland

Does Finland have enough sea transport capacity?

4/2015 Miiko Peris Estonian Project Manager Rail Baltic Estonia

Rail Baltic will influence the development of the entire Baltic Sea region

4/2015 Jarmo Koskinen Director Cargo Traffic Port of Turku Ltd Finland

Requirements for the port’s competitiveness are changing

4/2015 Gunnar Prause Professor Tallinn University of Technology Estonia

Industry 4.0 – new perspectives for smart production and logistics in the Baltic Sea Region

4/2015 Joseph Dutton

Associate Research Fellow Energy Policy Group University of Exeter The United Kingdom

The Energy Union and gas (in)security in the EU

3/2015 Maroš Šefčovič Vice President European Commission

From energy islands to an Energy Union – the case of the Baltic region

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3/2015 Andrej Plenković Member of the European Parliament, EPP Croatia

Vice-Chair of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

Chairman of the Delegation to the Parliamentary Association Committee EU-Ukraine

EU-Ukraine relations – parliamentary co-operation perspective

3/2015 Yana Toom Member of the European Parliament Estonia

EU-Russia relations – a view from Estonia

3/2015 Dorothee Janetzke-Wenzel

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Republic of Finland

The Arctic Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany

3/2015 Andrii Olefirov Ambassador of Ukraine to Finland Affinity in historical ties and destinies is driving pragmatic co-operation between Ukraine and Finland

3/2015 Jarmo Viinanen Ambassador of Finland to Sweden since August 2014

Towards an ever closer partnership – enhanced security policy cooperation between Finland and Sweden

3/2015 Kimmo Kääriäinen Executive Director Department for International Relations National Church Council Finland

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and its international cooperation in the Baltic Sea region

3/2015 Elisabeth Braw Correspondent Newsweek

Russian activities in Europe – the real and phantom kind

3/2015 Sergey Kulik Director for International Studies

Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR) Moscow, Russia

Ukrainian crisis – economic challenges for EU and Russia

3/2015 Christopher J. Weafer

Senior Partner Macro-Advisory Limited Russia

Sanctions and weak oil add urgency to already overdue Russia reforms

3/2015 Konstantin Khudoley

Head Department of European Studies School of International Relations St. Petersburg State University Russia

Russia and European Union – what can be expected in the future?

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3/2015 Jussi Kurunmäki Associate Professor Södertörn University Sweden

Member Project “Spaces of Expectation: Mental Mapping and Historical Imagination in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Region”

The Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference and the Ukraine crisis

3/2015 Andrei V. Belyi Senior Researcher Centre for the EU Russia Studies University of Tartu Estonia

Russia-Baltic energy relations

3/2015 Natalia Zaslavskaya

Associate Professor St. Petersburg State University Russia

The EU and Russia – searching to overcome the crisis

3/2015 Eoin Micheál McNamara

Ph.D. Researcher Institute of Government and Politics University of Tartu Estonia

Associate Fellow Latvian Institute of International Affairs in Riga Latvia

The Baltic States and EU-Russia relations – questions of security after the Ukraine crisis

3/2015 Kirsi Ahlman Deputy Director Centrum Balticum Finland

Making the most of the Baltic Sea Region by promoting co-operation

3/2015 Yuliy A. Nisnevich Professor, Doctor of Political Science National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow Russia

Corruption in Russia – the heritage of the Communist regime

3/2015 Ari Aaltonen Chief strategist Front Capital Ltd Finland

Dim outlook for the Russian economy

3/2015 Nadezda Volovik Head Foreign Trade Department Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Russia

U.S.-Russia trade development after the onset of a sanctions era

3/2015 Veera Laine Research fellow Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Minority marginalization as an internal threat

3/2015 Robert Person Ph.D., Assistant Professor of International Relations United States Military Academy West Point, New York The USA

Ukraine 2015 – the challenges of governing from the center

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3/2015 Nicolai N. Petro Professor of Politics University of Rhode Island The USA

The heart of the conflict in Ukraine

3/2015 Ihor O. Lishchynskyy

Ph.D., Senior Lecturer Department of International Economics

Head International Relations Office

Ternopil National Economic University Ukraine

Monotowns in Baltic Rim countries and Ukraine

3/2015

Ilan Alon

Tom Lairson

Cornell Professor of International Business Coordinator of Asian Studies

Gelbman Professor of International Business Professor of Political Science Rollins College The USA

Will China form a new Anti-Western alliance with Russia?

3/2015 Jouko Rautava Adviser BOFIT Bank of Finland Finland

Russia and China – different players playing different games

3/2015 Björn Hasselgren Ph.D., Research Fellow Department of Urban Planning and Environment KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sweden

Successful co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region has to be based on institutional underpinnings

3/2015 Vatanyar Yagya Sergey Kustov

Professor School of International Relations St. Petersburg State University Russia Postgraduate student School of International Relations St. Petersburg State University Russia

Turku and St. Petersburg – interregional co-operation as a basis of international relations

3/2015 Jaana Mäkikalli Director World Trade Center Turku Finland

World Trade Centers enhancing the global economies

3/2015 Andrzej Rzońca Leszek Balcerowicz

Member Poland’s Monetary Policy Committee Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Former Governor of Poland’s Central Bank Poland

There are no reasons to fear deflation in Poland

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3/2015 Jerzy Kaźmierczyk Ph.D., Assistant Professor Poznan University of Economics

Member of the Board Polish Economic Association

Member Presidium Zielona Gora Poland

Human capital development in Polish banks

3/2015 Vladimir Olenchenko

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Researcher Center for European Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations Russian Academy of Science Russia

Baltic States – the stages of investment activity

3/2015 Raivo Vare Chairman Board of Directors Estonian Railways Ltd. Estonia

Estonian perspective – Russian transit

3/2015 Timo Seppälä Post-Doctoral Researcher at Etlatieto Oy, a subsidiary of ETLA, and Aalto University Finland

Gross domestic product and exports versus domestic value added – Ericsson Eesti As in the Estonian economy

3/2015 Alexander Pakhomov

D.Sc. (Econ.), Leading Scientific Researcher The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Russia

Russian outward investments – lost chance or а new stage

3/2015 Daniel Göler Full Professor, Ph.D. Germany Institute of Geography, Geographic Research on Migration and Transition Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg Germany

A country on the move – migration and demographic crisis in Latvia

3/2015 Nikita Mkrtchyan Leading Research Fellow Center for Demographical Studies Institute of Demography Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russia

Main directions of internal migration flows in Russia

3/2015 Tomasz Michalski Professor Department of Regional Development Geography University of Gdańsk Poland

Demographic situation in the southern and south-western part of Baltic Europe

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3/2015 Hannu Niemi Professor (emeritus) Chairman The Donelaitis Society Finland

The Donelaitis Society and its role in building bridges between Finland and Lithuania

3/2015 Vasilii Martynov Irina Sazonova

Professor, Dr. Hab. Department of Economic Geography Russian State Pedagogical University A. I. Herzen Russia Associate Professor, Dr. Department of Economic Geography Russian State Pedagogical University A. I. Herzen Russia

Åland Islands from a Russian perspective

3/2015 Vladimir Kuzin Assistant Professor Kaliningrad State Technical University Russia

Kaliningrad region development and corruption perception

3/2015 Alexander Barinov Director IKBFU Institute of Economics and Management Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia

The exclave of Kaliningrad and the problem of its economic development

3/2015 Elena Zimovina Ph.D., Senior Researcher Sociological laboratory for the risk analysis, modeling and prognostication Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Kaliningrad Russia

Population of the Kaliningrad region – development stages and characteristics of the ethnic structure

3/2015 Elena Romanova Ph.D., Associate Professor Institute of Environmental Management, Territory Development and Urban Planning Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia

Recent development of economic well-being of rural areas of the Kaliningrad region

3/2015 Alexander Sebentsov Maria Zotova

Ph.D., Researcher Centre for Geopolitical Studies Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences Russia Ph.D., Researcher Centre for Geopolitical Studies Institute of Geography Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Kaliningrad region on the EU borderland – from the “unsinkable aerocarrier” to the “laboratory of collaboration”

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3/2015 Tatyana Kuznetsova

Dr., Executive secretary “Baltic region” journal Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia

The “Baltic Region” research journal

3/2015 Dejan Romih Assistant of International Economics and Business

Deputy Chairman Academic Assembly Faculty of Economics and Business University of Maribor Slovenia

How to increase the value of Slovenia’s exports of goods and services to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania?

3/2015 Maija Sirola Communications Manager BONUS Finland

The times they are a-changing – Baltic Sea research and funding in support of sustainability action

3/2015 Marianne Lehtimäki Tiina Mertanen

Coordinator Monitoring Group on Cultural Heritage in the Baltic Sea States Director The Maritime Museum of Finland Senior chair Monitoring Group on Cultural Heritage in the Baltic Sea States Finland

To make BSR maritime cultural heritage count

3/2015 Kaapo M. Seppälä Project Manager Technology Research Centre University of Turku Finland

Augmented reality ahoy! There is more than cleantech innovations coming up for the Baltic Sea seafaring!

3/2015 Jaana Kerttula Acting Executive Manager Protection Fund for the Archipelago Sea Centrum Balticum Finland

Protection Fund for the Archipelago Sea – funding practical work towards achieving a healthier sea

3/2015

Xénia Szanyi-Gyenes György Mudri

Ph.D. Candidate Doctoral School of Management and Business Administration Corvinus University of Budapest Hungary Accredited Parliamentary Assistant European Parliament Belgium

Regulation of food taxes in the light of market disturbances

3/2015 Delaney Michael Skerrett

Dr., Research Fellow Griffith University Australia

Integration and inclusion and the continued promotion of the Estonian language

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3/2015 Artiom Zheltov Chief Strategist Future Designing Research Group Russia

The “Inevitable future” scenario-building methodology

3/2015 Anssi Klemetti Project Coordinator Centrum Balticum Finland

Germany’s economic presence in the Baltic Sea region

2/2015 Guy Ryder Director General International Labour Organization

Corporate Social Responsibility and decent work

2/2015 Juha Väätänen Professor, MNEmerge project director Lappeenranta University of Technology Finland

How to make the world a better place?

2/2015 François Passant Executive Director EUROSIF - European Sustainable Investment Forum

Which role for capital markets in promoting sustainability?

2/2015 Dolores Gallardo-Vázquez

Dr, Manager of the University Social Responsibility Office University of Extremadura (UEx) Spain

Does Corporate Social Responsibility motivate competitive success of firms?

2/2015 Liisa Rohweder Chief Executive Officer WWF Finland Finland

The next wave of innovation is clean, big and profitable

2/2015 Janne Sivonen Executive Director Fairtrade Finland Finland

Fairtrade’s growth strengthens the corporate social responsibility trend

2/2015 Xiaolan Fu

Jun Hou

Professor of Technology and International Development, Director

Dr, Research Officer Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD) University of Oxford The United Kingdom

China’s direct investment in Africa and its impact

2/2015 Shyama V. Ramani Professorial Fellow United Nations University at Maastricht (UNU-MERIT) The Netherlands

Sanitation – providing safe toilets through public-private partnerships

2/2015 Vidhi A. Chaudhri Assistant Professor Department of Media and Communication Erasmus School of History, Culture, and Communication Erasmus University Rotterdam The Netherlands

The promise and challenge of collaboration for CSR – corporate-NGO engagement

128

2/2015 Valerie Nattrodt Leonardo E.Bremermann Mauro Rosa

Electrical Engineering Student INESC P&D Brasil Hosted by the Power Systems Planning Group Dept. of Electrical Engineering Federal University of Santa Catarina Brazil Research Fellow & Project Manager INESC P&D Brasil Hosted by the Power Systems Planning Group Dept. of Electrical Engineering Federal University of Santa Catarina Brazil PhD, Director of Science and Technology INESC P&D Brasil Professor Federal University of Santa Catarina Brazil

The Light for All Programme – the Brazilian case of the MNEmerge project

2/2015 Matthias S. Fifka Professor for Business Administration and Business Ethics Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Germany

Visiting Professor for Business and Society University of Dallas The USA Deputy Director German-American Institute Germany

Corporate Social Responsibility in Russia – the long and winding road in between western influence and Russian tradition

2/2015 Maxim A. Storchevoy

Senior Lecturer, PhD Graduate School of Management St. Petersburg State University Russia

Business ethics and CSR in Russia – an outlook of 2015

2/2015 Marzena Strzelczak General Director Responsible Business Forum Poland

Polish CSR in brief

2/2015 Linda Piirto Senior Adviser in CSR Ministry of Employment and the Economy Finland

The Finnish CSR policy – aiming to be forerunners

2/2015 Mikko Routti Executive Director FIBS CR Network Finland

How is Finnish business creating sustainable and inclusive growth?

129

2/2015

Vappu Kunnaala-Hyrkki Olli-Pekka Brunila

Research Specialist Brahea Centre for Maritime Studies University of Turku Finland Project Manager Brahea Centre for Maritime Studies University of Turku Finland

Corporate Social Responsibility trends in maritime logistics

2/2015

Neil Bellefontaine Tafsir Johansson

Acting president, Professor World Maritime University Sweden Research Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate World Maritime University Sweden

Ocean governance and the EU “macro-regional” strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

2/2015 Hanna Mäkinen Project Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Concluding remarks on the Special Issue on Corporate Social Responsibility

1/2015 Karmenu Vella European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Now is the time to deliver sustainable Blue Growth in the Baltic

1/2015 Sirpa Paatero Minister for International Development Finland

The Finnish icebreakers in the Arctic region

1/2015 Bogdan Zdrojewski Member of the European Parliament Poland

Cultural diplomacy a tool to promote EU values in its Eastern neighbourhood in view of new geopolitical situation

1/2015 Johannes Koskinen Member of the Finnish Parliament Chair of the Constitutional Law Committee Member of the Finnish Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Finland

Ukraine stresses the need to reform and enhance the OSCE

1/2015 Bodo Bahr Head of the BSPC Secretariat Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference Germany

Parliamentary cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region

1/2015 Anders Lidén Ambassador of Sweden to Finland Strong links across the Baltic – the Swedish-Finnish relationship

1/2015 Sarah Price HM Ambassador to Finland British-Finnish relations in 2015

130

1/2015 Alexander Ostrovsky

Ambassador of Belarus to Finland Transit potential of Belarus

1/2015 Aleksi Randell Mayor City of Turku Chairman of the Board Centrum Balticum Foundation Finland

Baltic Sea Region Forum – a region on the move?

1/2015 Bo Andersson Secretary General Norden Association Sweden

The Nordic way might also be a way for the Baltic Sea Region

1/2015 Talis Linkaits Head of Secretariat Baltic Sea Region Spatial Planning Initiative VASAB Latvia

Towards coherent spatial planning and territorial development of the Baltic Sea Region

1/2015 Jens Stenbæk Chairman of the Regional Council Region Zealand Denmark

Seizing the potentials for a strong, sustainable regional growth

1/2015 Stanislav Usachev Head of International Relations Yegor Gaidar Foundation Russia

Yegor Gaidar Foundation – changing the future

1/2015 Toni Vanhala Head of International Affairs Regional Council of Kymenlaakso Finland

Kymenlaakso region and its international co-operation in the Baltic Sea area

1/2015 Marketta Mäkinen Director of International Relations City of Jyväskylä Finland

The City of Jyväskylä and its future cooperation in the Baltic Sea region

1/2015 Monika Cholewczyńska-Dmitruk

Head of ETC/ENI Unit Marshal Office of the Pomorskie Region Poland

Pomorskie at the start of new financial perspective 2014-2020

1/2015 Merja Salmi-Lindgren

Secretary General Finnish Marine Industries Finland

The Finnish marine industry – the forerunner of smart maritime technology solutions

1/2015 Saara Malila Director of Communications and Marketing City of Turku Finland

A logo doesn’t make a city, but a uniform look can build it

1/2015 Joakim Lundblad PhD Student CIRCLE, Lund University Senior Policy Analyst The Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Southern Sweden Sweden

Time for the cities to step up

131

1/2015 Andris Jaunsleinis Chairman Latvian Association of Local and Regional Governments (LALRG) Latvia

Experience of consultations among central and local governments, social partners and scientists in Latvia

1/2015 Anja Nystén Senior Adviser Environment, Energy and Climate NEFCO Finland

Reduction of nutrient load in the Baltic Sea

1/2015 Lotta Nummelin Managing Director The Baltic Sea Fund Finland

25 years for the Baltic Sea

1/2015 Åsa Stenmarck Head of waste group IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute Former project manager RECO Baltic 21 Tech Sweden

RECO Baltic 21 Tech – a project facilitating climbing in the waste hierarchy

1/2015 Susanne Scherrer Director Interreg Baltic Sea Region Managing Authority/Joint Secretariat Investitionsbank Schleswig-Holstein Germany

Funding cooperation – Interreg Baltic Sea Region ready for a new start

1/2015 Kalman Kalotay Economic Affairs Officer United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

The impact of the new ruble crisis on Russian FDI

1/2015 Kurt Bratteby Director Department for International Relations Swedish Institute Sweden

The Swedish Institute – fostering territorial cooperation

1/2015 Olaf Osica Executive Director Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) Poland

Flying over the landslide

1/2015 Tomas Ries Dr., Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor National Defence College Sweden

Baltic insecurity in a new Europe

1/2015 Olli-Matti Mikkola PhD University of Turku Finland

The military reform in Russian newspapers

1/2015 Christian Opitz Project Assistant Research Center Norden Project German Institute for International and Security Affairs Germany

(How to) Put the Baltic into the Nordic Defence Cooperation?

132

1/2015 Yuri Piskulov Doctor of Economics, Professor Russian Foreign Trade Academy Russia

How to restore trust?

1/2015 Tatiana Romanova Dr., Associate Professor Department of European Studies St. Petersburg State University Russia

Institutional aspects of EU-Russian energy relations – from diversification to primitivisation?

1/2015

Iwona M. Batyk Lyudmila W. Semenova

Dr. eng., Assistant Professor Faculty of Food Science University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn Poland PhD, Assistant Professor Faculty of Service Immanuel Kant Federal University of Kaliningrad Russia

The importance of local border traffic between Poland and Russia in the era of sanctions on Polish food products

1/2015 Piia Moilanen Programme Manager Tekes Arctic Seas Programme TEKES Finland

Arctic growth requires risk management

1/2015 Dimitrijus Kucevicius

Director of the Innovation Department Ministry of Economy Lithuania

Science and technology parks – a promising part of the Lithuanian innovation ecosystem

1/2015 Heli Salminen Docent, Head Auria Biobank Finland

Biobanks – driver for innovations in Europe

1/2015 Anthony Jay Olsson

Mirjam Külm

Head of Media and Communications Balticlab

Programme Manager Balticlab Council of the Baltic Sea States International Secretariat Sweden

The future as now – when innovation is not enough

1/2015 Max Hogeforster Dr., Chairman of the Hanse-Parlament Germany

Dual systems of vocational training to overcome skills mismatch and increase innovation in the Baltic Sea Region

133

1/2015

Genutė Gedvilienė Vidmantas Tūtlys

Professor in Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas Member of Lithuanian Association of Adult Education Lithuania Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Head of the Centre for Vocational Education and Research Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas Lithuania Member of European Network of the Research of Vocational Education VETNET

Development of key competences of adults in Lithuania – challenges and solutions

1/2015 Mark Galeotti Professor of Global Affairs SPS Center for Global Affairs New York University USA

Transnational crime in the Baltic states

1/2015 Vladimir Gelman Professor European University at St. Petersburg Russia Finland Distinguished Professor University of Helsinki Finland

Electoral authoritarianism in Russia – what’s next?

1/2015 Rein Taagepera Professor Emeritus University of Tartu Estonia University of California, Irvine USA Johan Skytte Prize 2008 in Political Science

When decaying empires strike back

1/2015 Roman Ryabkov Head of International Operations Jokerit Hockey Club Oy Finland

Jokerit and KHL – an essential new trade bridge to the East

1/2015 Thorsten Kohlisch Head Joint Technical Secretariat South Baltic Cross-border Co-operation Programme Center of European Projects, Gdańsk Poland

Towards tangible results for blue and green growth – the South Baltic Programme 2014-2020

1/2015 Stefan Gänzle Associate Professor University of Agder, Kristiansand Norway

The EU’s Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region – a Baltic model for Europe

1/2015 Merike Niitepõld Head of Managing Authority Central Baltic Programme 2014-2020 Regional Council of Southwest Finland Finland

25 years of Interreg cooperation – going for concrete results

134

1/2015 Evgenia Sergeeva International Projects Coordinator OPORA ROSSII, St. Petersburg Russia

Cooperation with Finland – OPORA ROSSII St. Petersburg branch

1/2015 Elena Leontyeva Partner Consulting Company Success Russia

Cooperation of young leaders and entrepreneurs of twin-cities Turku and St. Petersburg

1/2015 Satu Paiho Dr. VTT Technical Research Centre Finland

Huge market for energy-efficiency in Russian (and Eastern European) residential districts

1/2015 Matilda Dahl PhD in Business Administration Assistant Professor Uppsala University Campus Gotland Sweden

Organizing the Baltic Sea Region – a failing management project?

1/2015 Merle Haruoja Member of the Council BSNGONW Estonian Foundation Estonia

Human Rights Education is a human right

1/2015 Urszula Kowalczyk Head of Economics and Law Department Maritime Institute in Gdansk (MIG) Poland

The Maritime Institute in Gdansk activity in BSR Interreg projects

1/2015 Kari Liuhto Director Centrum Balticum Foundation Professor Turku School of Economics Finland

China’s economic presence in the Baltic Sea region

6/2014 Lenita Toivakka Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade Finland

The benefits and doubts of TTIP

6/2014 Linas Linkevičius Minister of Foreign Affairs Lithuania

Road from Vilnius to Riga – mounting challenges for the EU Eastern Partnership

6/2014 Sirpa Pietikäinen Member of the European Parliament Finland

Baltic Sea area as the key player in blue growth

6/2014 Inese Vaidere Professor Member of the European Parliament Latvia

EU sanctions against Russia – the high price of indecisiveness

6/2014 Tibor Szanyi Member of the European Parliament Hungary

Possible effects of the Russian embargo on food taxes

6/2014 Christofer Fjellner Swedish Moderate Party Member of the European Parliament Member of the delegation for relations with Belarus Sweden

EU’s perpetual dance with Belarus

135

6/2014 Heikki Autto National Coalition Party Member of Parliament Rovaniemi, Finland

The European bio-economy grows from the North

6/2014 Esko Lotvonen Mayor City of Rovaniemi Finland

Rovaniemi – the Arctic capital of Finland

6/2014 Felix H. Tschudi Chairman Tschudi Shipping Company

Chairman Centre for High North Logistics Norway

The Arctic Corridor – Arctic infrastructure as catalyst for Nordic resource development

6/2014 Erja Tikka Ambassador for Baltic Sea Affairs Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, more commitment and focus for better results

6/2014 Helena Lindberg Director General Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) Sweden

Meeting the challenges of trans-boundary flows through macroregional cooperation

6/2014 Asta Mackeviciute Policy Officer Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection European Commission

Solidarity – a burden, privilege or natural state?

6/2014 Bo Harald Tillberg Director Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania

Belarusian language and national identity – old challenges, new paradox

6/2014 Kjell Nilsson

Stefanie Lange Scherbenske

Aslı Tepecik Diş

Linus Rispling

Director Nordregio

Research Fellow Nordregio

Research Fellow Nordregio

GIS Analyst Nordregio

Nordregio in the Baltic Sea Region

6/2014 Kåre Storvik Partner Storvik & Co AS Norway

Nordic branding

6/2014 Annamari Arrakoski-Engardt

Secretary General John Nurminen Foundation Finland

Summer 2014 – a tale of two seas

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6/2014 Vincent F. Valentine

Dr., Officer-in-Charge Transport Section, Trade Logistics Branch Division on Technology and Logistics UNCTAD

Maritime transport in the Baltic Sea from a global perspective

6/2014 Sanna Sonninen Director Finnish Transport Safety Agency Trafi Finland

Baltic Sea – the sea of information?

6/2014 Kimmo Mäki Managing Director Port of Helsinki Finland

Port of Helsinki on the move

6/2014 Johanna Boijer-Svahnström

Head of Communications Corporate Communications Viking Line Abp Finland

Viking Line’s commitment to environmental work

6/2014 Marek Grzybowski Professor, Head Economics and Management Department Gdynia Maritime University

President Polish Maritime Cluster

Editor-in-Chief The Internet Manager Poland

Knowledge transfer and international cooperation –Polish Maritime Cluster and Gdynia Maritime University experience

6/2014 Johanna Karhu Project Coordinator of the Baltic Sea Pilot Project BALSAM Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) Finland

Cooperation in marine environmental monitoring in the Baltic to support future policy needs

6/2014 Desislava Dikova Professor in International Business with CEE focus WU Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria

Entry mode choices of MNCs in the Baltic Sea region

6/2014 Igor Gurkov Distinguished University Professor National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow Russia

New conditions, new motives, and new modes of operations of Western MNCs in Russia

6/2014 Esa Österberg Chief Specialist National Institute for Health and Welfare Finland

Consequences of travelers’ alcohol traffic between Finland and Estonia

6/2014 Juhana Aunesluoma Research Director Network for European Studies University of Helsinki Finland

The Baltic World – 25 years from the revolutions of 1989

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6/2014 Venelin Tsachevsky Professor, Leading expert Bulgarian Republican Institute Bulgaria

Bulgaria’s Ambassador to Finland (2003-2006)

Author of the book “Casimir Ehrnrooth: The Finn who made history” (2014)

Casimir Ehrnrooth – the Finn who made history

6/2014 Wielisława Warzywoda-Kruszyńska

Professor, dr hab.

Head Department of Applied Sociology and Social Work

Director Institute of Sociology Faculty of Economics and Sociology University of Łódź Poland

“Investing in children” – a political slogan or a serious challenge for European societies?

6/2014 Vladimir Miklashevsky

Economist, Trading Desk Strategist Danske Bank Finland

Ukraine crisis accelerates rouble’s move into free float

6/2014 Janis Berzins Managing Director Center for Security and Strategic Research National Defence Academy of Latvia Latvia

Russia and European security

6/2014 Liudas Zdanavicius Lecturer The General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania Lithuania

Impact of the Russian economic sanctions on Lithuania

6/2014 Erik Jones Director European and Eurasian Studies The Johns Hopkins University SAIS USA

Russian sanctions and Russian confidence

6/2014 Toms Rostoks Assistant Professor Department of Political Science University of Latvia

Researcher Centre for Security and Strategic Research National Defence Academy of Latvia Latvia

Baltic security and NATO membership after Ukraine

6/2014 Justyna Gotkowska Project Coordinator ‘Security and Defence in Northern Europe’ Centre for Eastern Studies Poland

Russian military activity against Sweden – short and long term perspective

138

6/2014 Viljar Veebel Associate Professor Estonian National Defence College Estonia

Will economic sanctions fulfil Baltic expectations in terms of Ukraine and Russia?

6/2014 Dmitry A. Lanko Associate Professor St. Petersburg State University Russia

Regional approach in Russian policy towards Estonia in the times of sanctions

6/2014 Susanne Oxenstierna

Dr., Deputy Research Director Swedish Defence Research Agency Sweden

Future growth of the Russian economy?

6/2014 Jeff Schubert Research Consultant Shanghai Institute of International Financial Centre (SIIFC) Shanghai University of Finance and Economics China

Moscow as an International Financial Center (IFC)

6/2014 Yulia Vymyatnina BP Professor of Economics European University at St. Petersburg Russia

Eurasian Economic Union – a union of conflicting political interests

6/2014 Dmitry Gudimenko CEO Capital Development Group Ltd Finland/Russia

Russian double-headed eagle – what will it bring to its Western partners and neighbors

6/2014 Alexander Sokolov Oleg Karasev Konstantin Vishnevskiy

Deputy Director HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and the Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK) Director HSE Foresight Centre National Research University – Higher School of Economics (HSE) Head of the Chair of Statistics Faculty of Economics Moscow State University Head of Department for Private-Public Partnership in Innovation Sector (ISSEK) National Research University – Higher School of Economics (HSE) Russia

Foresight in Russia

6/2014 Heidi Saario Business Development Officer International Affairs Turku Region Development Centre Finland

Economic cooperation of Turku region and St. Petersburg

139

6/2014 Denis Mustonen Senior Advisor Economic Development/ City Competitiveness City of Helsinki Finland

Russian cooperation of the City of Helsinki

6/2014 Juhani Wihanto Head of Real Estate and Investments Wihanto Group Finland

Office real estate market in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2014

6/2014 Elizaveta Ageeva L.L.M, M. Sc. (Tech.) Specialist in International Operations NCC Rakennus Oy Finland

Foreign investments in commercial real estate in St. Petersburg – trick or treat?

6/2014 Viktorija Cohen PhD, Researcher, Lecturer Faculty of Economics Vilnius University Lithuania

Development of Kaliningrad region – modification scenario

6/2014 Petri Vuorio Senior Adviser East Consulting Ltd. Finland

Finland’s future position as a hub of Russian tourism

6/2014

Iwona M. Batyk Lyudmila W. Semenova

Dr. eng., Assistant Professor Faculty of Food Science University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn Poland PhD, Assistant Professor Faculty of Service Immanuel Kant Federal University of Kaliningrad Russia

Tourism development between border regions: Kaliningrad (Russia) and Warmia–Mazury (Poland)

6/2014

Olga Petrova Alexandra Petrova

Journalist, Development Director Art-Media agency “Main Stream” Russia General Director Art-Media agency “Main Stream” Russia

“Main Stream” agency

6/2014 Olga Hannonen Researcher Centre for Tourism Studies Department for Geographical and Historical Studies University of Eastern Finland Finland

Russian second home owner – friend or foe?

140

6/2014 Jury Ponomarev PhD, Professor Karelian Branch of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Russia

On the socio-economic situation in the Republic of Karelia

6/2014 Ilya Shegelman Rector’s Adviser Petrozavodsk State University Russia

Clusters in the economy of a cross-border region and Finnish experience

6/2014

Aleksei Vasilev Pavel Shchukin

Assistant Professor Petrozavodsk State University Russia Head of Innovative Section Petrozavodsk State University Russia

Development of high-technology manufacture of stamp-welded slide and wedge gate valves for atomic, heat-power and gas-and-oil industries

5/2014 Else Berit Eikeland Arctic Ambassador and Senior Arctic Official Ministry for Foreign Affairs Norway

Norway’s priority on economic development in the Arctic

5/2014 Maimo Henriksson Finnish Ambassador to Norway (2010–2014)

Director (2014-) Unit for Northern Europe Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

The inevitable choice – Finnish companies go North

5/2014 Timo Rautajoki President and CEO Lapland Chamber of Commerce Finland

Financial and political crises are delaying projects in European High North

5/2014 Tero Vauraste President and CEO Arctia Group Vice Chair Arctic Economic Council Finland

Knowledge and data exchange between industry and academia in the Arctic context

5/2014 Kari Synberg Více-President Finnish Geographical Society Finland

Finnish-Russian co-operation opportunities in the Arctic region

5/2014 Andrey Kletrov Advisor Finpro Trade Center in Murmansk Russia

To become a supplier to Russian Arctic mines – a worthy choice

5/2014 Mikhail Belokon Doctoral student Saint Petersburg State University Russia

Russia’s monotowns in the Arctic region as centers of country’s mining industry

141

5/2014 Hanna Mäkinen Project Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

The development of the Russian maritime sector – boosted by the growing interest to the Arctic

5/2014

Harri Mikkola

Juha Käpylä

Senior research fellow The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Research fellow The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

The uncertain future of the global Arctic

5/2014 Lassi Heininen Professor University of Lapland Finland

The achieved high Arctic stability as an asset for the storms of international politics

5/2014 Jussi Huotari PhD candidate The Faculty of Social Sciences Northern Cultures and Resource Politics Doctoral Programme University of Lapland Finland

Arctic Roulette – will economic sanctions open the door for Sino-Russian offshore operations in the High North

5/2014 Kai Sun Associate Professor School of Law and Politics Ocean University of China China

After getting in – what comes next after China got the Observer Status?

5/2014 Young Kil Park Director Maritime Territory Research Center Korea Maritime Institute South Korea

The Arctic – South Korea’s interests and challenges ahead

5/2014 Adrian Braun PhD student (Environmental Policy) Institute for Natural Resources, Environment and Society (LYY) University of Eastern Finland

Visiting Researcher Arctic Centre University of Lapland Finland

The relevance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reports in the framework of Arctic business operations

5/2014 Jaakko Henttonen Chair Arctic Contaminants Action Program A Working Group of the Arctic Council

Arctic Contaminants Action Program (ACAP) – practical projects to reduce contamination in the Arctic

142

5/2014 Jutta Wark International Chair Sustainable Development Working Group Arctic Council

The human face of the Arctic – the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council

5/2014 Aileen A. Espíritu Researcher, Associate Professor The Barents Institute Campus Kirkenes Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Futuring the Arctic

5/2014 Shinichiro Tabata Professor Slavic-Eurasian Research Center

Director Helsinki Office Hokkaido University Japan

Japan-Finland bilateral project on the socio-economic development of the Russian Far North

5/2014 Lars Elenius Mats-Olov Olsson

Professor, Chief Editor of the Barents history textbook Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies Umeå University Sweden PhD, Chief Editor of the Encyclopedia of the Barents Region Centre for Regional Science (Cerum) Umeå University Sweden

A History Textbook and an Encyclopedia of the Barents Region

5/2014 Eini Laaksonen University Teacher Pan European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Concluding remarks on the Special Issue on the future of the Arctic – from researcher’s perspective

4/2014 Carl Haglund Minister of Defence Finland

The Baltic Sea as an example of regional maritime security cooperation

4/2014 Rokas Masiulis Minister of Energy Lithuania

Klaipeda LNG terminal – the game changer in the Baltic region

4/2014 Martin Lidegaard Foreign Minister Denmark

The rising importance of the Baltic Sea region

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4/2014 Hans-Peter Bartels Dr., Member Chairman of the Defence Committee German Bundestag Germany

Cooperation in European security policy with the prospect of a European army, and the topical relevance of this debate for the Baltic Sea region

4/2014 Jette Nordam Ambassador of Denmark in Finland The importance of cooperation across the Baltic Sea region

4/2014 Riitta Hemmi Consul, Environment Consulate General of Finland in St. Petersburg Russia

Hazardous waste landfill near the Baltic Sea

4/2014 Katariina Kiviluoto Project Coordinator The ARCHOIL-project Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland

Cooperation vital in insular oil spill response

4/2014 Ksenia Yudaeva First Deputy Governor Bank of Russia Russia

Introduction of inflation targeting in Russia

4/2014 Lene Espersen Chairman Baltic Development Forum Former Minister of Foreign Affairs Denmark

Bridging the Baltic Sea

4/2014 Hanna Ekman Development Director Centrum Balticum Finland

Centrum Balticum – making the most of the Baltic Sea region

4/2014 Marie-Louise Rönnmark

Mayor City of Umeå Chairperson Capital of Culture committee Sweden

Aiming for growth in the far north – Umeå’s goal as Capital of Culture 2014

4/2014 Paweł Adamowicz Mayor City of Gdańsk Poland

A strong brand is fundamental

4/2014 Johanna Reiman Executive Director Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association - WHO Collaboration Centre for Healthy Cities and Urban Health in the Baltic Region Finland

Health in All Policies needs a boost in the Baltic Sea region

4/2014 Jaakko Lehtonen Director General Finnish Tourist Board Finland

The appealing Maiden of Finland

4/2014 Anu Valtonen Professor of Cultural Economy University of Lapland Finland

Tourism insights from the Arctic Circle

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4/2014 Teija Raninen Film Commissioner West Finland Film Commission Finland

Turku – a European film city

4/2014 Juha Aaltonen Airport Manager Turku Airport Finland

Turku Airport

4/2014 Frøystein Gjesdal Rector NHH Norwegian School of Economics Norway

Baltic Management Institute – a success story in executive education

4/2014 Per Holten-Andersen

President Copenhagen Business School Denmark

Copenhagen Business School in the Baltics – where university means business

4/2014 Kalman Kalotay Economic Affairs Officer United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Switzerland

The Crimean crisis and the future of Russian outward foreign direct investment

4/2014 Andrii Chubyk Energy Analyst Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI Ukraine

European gas rebus

4/2014 Hannu Arkonsuo Managing Director Arewcon-Development Oy Finland

EU-Russian energy relations and Ukraine crisis

4/2014 Edward Hunter Christie

Research Partner Pan-European Institute University of Turku Finland

Russia sanctions – the need for new EU solidarity mechanisms

4/2014 Ole Gunnar Austvik Professor BI Norwegian Business School Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) Norway

Will economic sanctions work?

4/2014 Stanislav L. Tkachenko

Professor of Economics School of International Relations Saint-Petersburg State University Russia

Russia’s innovation economy and impact of Western sanctions

4/2014 Klaus Wittmann Dr., Brigadier General (retired) Security Policy Expert Senior Fellow Aspen Institute Lecturer of Contemporary History Potsdam University Germany

Thinking beyond Putin

145

4/2014 Louis Clerc Senior Lecturer Department of Political Science and Contemporary History University of Turku Finland

Atlantism versus gaullism? The sale of French Mistral-class ships to Russia in the context of French foreign policy

4/2014 Henrik Ringbom Adjunct Professor (Docent) of Maritime Law and the Law of the Sea Department of Law Åbo Akademi Finland Professor II Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law University of Oslo Norway

Regulating the Baltic Sea

4/2014 Üllas Ehrlich Professor of Environmental Economics Tallinn University of Technology Estonia

Current challenges of environmental economics in Estonia

4/2014 Thomas Schneider Head EU-Russia Dialogue Representative to Estonia Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Germany

Russian minority in Estonia – social co-existence, educational transformation and the labour market

4/2014 Evgeny Gontmakher Dr., Prof., Deputy Director Institute of World Economy and International Relations Russian Academy of Science Russia

The Russian labor market – European tendencies and national features

4/2014 Jadwiga Rogoża Senior Fellow Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) Poland

Kaliningrad’s paradoxes

4/2014 Yuri Babkin Development Director Kaliningrad Region Development Corporation Russia

Kaliningrad region establishes favourable conditions for international business

4/2014 Kristiina Tõnnisson Dr., Director of European College University of Tartu Estonia

Where did we lose the students while teaching EU?

146

4/2014 Lyudmila Kulikovskaya Anastasia Kuznetsova

Director Institute of International Programmes Director Barents EU Centre Petrozavodsk State University Russia Director European Union Information Centre Coordinator Barents EU Centre Petrozavodsk State University Russia

The EU Centre in the Barents Euro-Arctic region

4/2014 Toomas Varrak PhD, DSc, Senior Researcher Tallinn University of Technology Professor, Head of the Chair of Political Science and International Relations Euroacademy Estonia

Considering the stake of science in politics

4/2014

Tālis J. Putniņš Arnis Sauka

Assistant Professor Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Latvia Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow University of Technology in Sydney Australia Assistant Professor Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Latvia

Shadow economies in the Baltic countries – recent trends

4/2014 Victor Voronov Dr. hab., Leading Researcher Institute for Social Research Daugavpils University Expert in Sociology and Economics Science Council Latvian Academy of Sciences Latvia

Systemic difficulties in Latvia – causes and possible solutions

4/2014

Theresa Weiss Vassilen Iotzov

Joint Technical Secretariat South Baltic Programme Poland

Live and let die?! Corporate social responsibility as a sustainable business concept

3/2014 Kari Mäkinen The Most Revd Dr The Archbishop of Turku and Finland The Evangelical Lutheran Church Finland

The Baltic Sea – a meeting point for ecclesial traditions

3/2014 Petteri Orpo Member of Parliament Chairman of Executive Board Regional Council of Southwest Finland Finland

Turku and Southwest Finland – active in business and cross-border cooperation

147

3/2014 Juho Savo Region Mayor Regional Council of Southwest Finland Finland

The Baltic Sea – on my mind

3/2014 Aleksi Randell Mayor City of Turku Chairman Centrum Balticum Foundation Finland

Turku Pro Baltic – long term commitment for Baltic Sea cooperation

3/2014 Kari Häkämies Director-General Regional State Administrative Agency for Southwestern Finland Former Minister of the Interior Finland

Work before everyday security is rewarding

3/2014 Kalervo Väänänen Rector University of Turku Finland

The future lies in the hands of the youth

3/2014 Mikko Ketonen Chairman of the Board TS-Yhtymä Oy Finland

Economic growth is the best guarantee for the protection of the Baltic Sea

3/2014 Kari Takanen Rear Admiral Commander of the Finnish Navy Finland

Maritime security at the Baltic Sea

3/2014 Jukka Savolainen Captain (N) Commander of West Finland Coast Guard District Finland

Coast guards – cooperating internationally for the security of the Baltic Sea area

3/2014 Tapio Huttunen Police Chief Southwestern Finland Police Department Finland

The Baltic Sea – a sea of cooperation

3/2014 Arto Honka Director Turku Customs Finland

Customs as a facilitator of trade from the early days of history to the present and the future – with a Turku twist

3/2014 Pekka Sundman Director City Development Group Central Administration City of Turku Finland

The role of Finnish marine industry in Baltic Sea area

3/2014 Kari Vainio Senior Editor-in-Chief Turun Sanomat Finland

Turku lies at the heart of the Baltic Sea

3/2014 Rikumatti Levomäki

CEO Turku Science Park Ltd Finland

Life science city Turku ‒ real triple helix

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3/2014 Hanna Halme Vice President, General Manager PerkinElmer Diagnostics EMEA Finland

Global human and environmental health company

in Turku ‒ making a difference, every day

3/2014 Jaakko Saari Director Igence Oy Ab Finland

Growing opportunities in eCommerce all around the Baltic region

3/2014 Vesa Marttinen Managing Director Turku Repair Yard Ltd, part of BLRT Grupp Chairman of the Board Finnish Marine Industries Finland

Regional marine industry

3/2014 Bo Österlund Commodore (one star admiral) ret. Finland

Our national economy relies on our maritime traffic – true or not?

3/2014 Hannu Kottonen President, CEO HKScan Group Finland

HKScan – from Turku to the Baltic Rim markets

3/2014

Sam Hansén Ilpo Mantere

MD

COB Lahtinen Mantere Saatchi & Saatchi Finland

Surfing on the waves of emotion across the Baltic

3/2014 Anne-Marget Hellén Director of Tourism Turku Touring Southwest Finland Tourist and Convention Bureau City of Turku Finland

The Baltic Sea – a top travel destination of the future

3/2014 Sari Ruusumo Convention Manager Turku Touring Southwest Finland Tourist and Convention Bureau City of Turku Chair Congress Network Finland Finland

Destination for friendship

3/2014 Janne Tienpää Senior Sales Manager Sokotel Ltd, part of S-Group Hotels Finland

Focus on tourism – case Finland

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3/2014 Mikko Lohikoski Director External Affairs City of Turku Secretary General Centrum Balticum Foundation Coordinator Turku Process Finland

Cities as key actors in regional cooperation – the Turku Process as example

3/2014 Kauko Jämsén Director, Ambassador Turku Centre in Saint-Petersburg

Small is beautiful in the Baltic Sea region

3/2014 Krista Taipale Head Turku-Southwest Finland European Office in Brussels

Smart development of Baltic Sea region at the core of EU funding programmes 2014–2020

3/2014 Tapio Reponen Vice-Rector University of Turku Finland

University of Turku has an active participation in Baltic Sea region development

3/2014 Juha Kettunen Rector Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland

A glimpse at the migration flows in the Baltic Sea region

3/2014 Markus Granlund Dean, Professor Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Looking at research and education in business and economics from local and global perspectives

3/2014 Urpo Kivikari Professor (emeritus) of International Economics University of Turku Finland

Turku – “Baltic city”

3/2014 Niklas Österlund CEO HC TPS Turku Oy Finland

Sports – a bridge across the seas

3/2014 Juha Järvinen Principal Turku Conservatory of Music and Dance Choir conductor Male Choir LY in Turku 2013 Luvia Male Choir 2001–2012 Finland

Communities, individuals and cultural history among Baltic and Nordic male choirs

3/2014 Kari Immonen Museum Director Turku Art Museum Finland

Monuments for men or monuments men? (Best) possible scenarios for visual arts

3/2014 Maija Palonheimo Managing Director Linnateatteri Finland

Film city Turku

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3/2014 Raija-Liisa Seilo Artistic advisor Director (2008–2013) Turku City Theatre Member Arts Council of Varsinais-Suomi Finland

Turku and changing cultural climate in the Baltic Sea region

3/2014 Riitta Ahdan Coordinator Head of INTERACT Point Turku Project Director INTERACT ENPI Finland

Cooperation challenges in the regional context

3/2014 Björn Grönholm Head of Secretariat Union of the Baltic Cities Commission on Environment Finland

Increasing role of cooperation – again

3/2014 Salla-Maria Lauttamäki

Coordinator Baltic Sea Challenge Executive Manager Protection Fund for the Archipelago Sea Centrum Balticum Finland

A clean, productive and shared Baltic Sea

3/2014 Kari Liuhto Director Centrum Balticum Foundation Director Pan-European Institute Professor Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Build common strategies to avoid common tragedies

2/2014 Siim Kallas Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Transport

Rail Baltic – a vital transport link to connect East and West

2/2014 Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson

Prime Minister Iceland

Together we stand stronger – the importance of regional co-operation

2/2014 Joachim Zeller Member European Parliament

Giving up Russia?

2/2014 Kristiina Ojuland Member ALDE group European Parliament

EU-Russia relations – on the verge of breaking

2/2014 Carl Schlyter Member Swedish Green Party

Member Vice President Committee of Environment European Parliament

Time to focus on human growth instead of economic growth

151

2/2014 Henrik Normann President and CEO Nordic Investment Bank

NIB – supporting sustainable growth in the Baltic Sea region

2/2014 Ari Korhonen Mayor City of Raisio Finland

Member Council of European Municipalities and Regions

A crucial time for Europe

2/2014 Anita Lehikoinen Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education and Culture Finland

Strong internationalization safeguards quality of higher education

2/2014 Ilpo Kokkila Chairman of the Board Confederation of Finnish Industries EK Finland

Paving the way for more business with Russia

2/2014 Alexander Y. Panychev

Rector Petersburg State Transport University Russia

High speed rail lines as a factor of development of science, innovative technologies and education

2/2014 Mika Joukio CEO Metsä Tissue Finland

Metsä Tissue seeking for strong growth in Poland

2/2014 Mikko Söderlund Managing Director SRV St. Petersburg

Finnish real estate investment vehicles in St. Petersburg

2/2014 Aleksei Novitsky Director Gasum Oy Energy Trading Unit Finland

GEK Insights – Natural Gas Outlook 2014

2/2014 Alexander Starchenko

Chairman Supervisory Board Non-commercial partnership Energy Consumers Association Russia

Distributed generation in Russia – menace or opportunity?

2/2014 Elisa Markula Senior Vice President Paulig Group

Managing Director Gustav Paulig Ltd Finland

Paulig – promoting the role of coffee in the Baltic Sea region

2/2014 Pekka Heikonen CEO, President Pemamek Oy Ltd Finland

Baltic welding companies to reach competitiveness through automation

152

2/2014 Pekka Mattila Group Managing Director, Associate Dean Aalto University Executive Education

Professor of Practice Aalto University School of Business Finland

Building a Nordic hub for leadership and organizational development

2/2014 Igor Kogut Director Ukrainian School of Political Studies Ukraine

Political prospects of Ukraine in the context of “Revolution of Dignity”

2/2014 Arseniy Svynarenko Lecturer in Ukrainian Studies University of Helsinki Finland

Ukraine after Euromaidan – country on the path of reforms in the conditions of deep economic and political crisis

2/2014 Niklas I.M. Nováky Ph.D. Candidate Department of Politics & International Relations University of Aberdeen The United Kingdom

EU military crisis management – the need for common funding

2/2014 Minna Jokela Dr. (Soc.Sc.), Researcher The Finnish Border and Coast Guard Academy Finland

Border security as a field of practice between Finland and Russia

2/2014 Jukka Manner Professor, Ph.D. Department of Communications and Networking Aalto University Finland

From IT security to cyber security – bits destroying our physical world

2/2014

Jacek Bełdowski Jan Fidler

Dr., Scientific Project Coordinator Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN) Poland Project Coordinator, Managing Director Biuro Projektów Fidler Germany

Danger remains from World War II in our shared waters

2/2014 Helena Kyster-Hansen

Senior Advisor Tetraplan A/S

Project Manager BTO2030 study Denmark

Baltic Transport Outlook 2030

2/2014 Karlis Bukovskis Deputy Director Latvian Institute of International Affairs Latvia

The lost and found for Latvia – 10 years of European Union membership

153

2/2014 Ivars Ijabs Associate Professor of Political Science University of Latvia Latvia

Geopolitics of a minority – Latvian Russian-speakers in the shadow of Crimea

2/2014 Daina Ruduša Rīga2014 International Media Coordinator The Latvian Institute Latvia

A positive force majeure of culture in Rīga 2014

2/2014

Pavel Cheshev Virpi Herranen

Ph.D., Advisor Tekes Russia, Moscow Tekes - Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation Head Tekes Russia, St. Petersburg Tekes - Finnish Funding Agency for Innovation

Finnish-Russian innovation cooperation – growing on

2/2014 Tomi M. Virtanen Assistant Manager Turku Chamber of Commerce Finland

Finnish technology startups and traditional manufacturing industry

2/2014 Aleksandr Loktev Director RVC Infrafund Russia

Soft infrastructure for the innovative companies

2/2014 Alexander Galitsky Co-Founder and Managing Partner Almaz Capital Partners Russia

Public-private partnerships – fostering innovations in Russia

2/2014 Alexander Khasi Co-founder MedStart Russia

MedStart – helping biomedical start-ups succeed

2/2014 Alexey Kostrov Executive Director Moscow Seed Fund Russia

Moscow Seed Fund – increasing start-up investments in the region

2/2014 Anastasia Tyurina Head of Innovation Department National Research University - Higher School of Economics Russia

Sustainable development of Russian technology parks – next step in the way

2/2014 Andrew Vvedenskiy Director of Infrastructure and Regional Development RVC Russia

Innovation infrastructure as the key element of sustainable venture ecosystem in Russia

2/2014 Artour Baganov CEO Global TechInnovations Russia

Surviving the “Valley of Death” – start-up acceleration programs

2/2014 Denis Sosnovtsev Channel Solution Manager IBM Russia

Towards a smarter planet

154

2/2014 Dmitry Chikhachev Managing Partner Runa Capital Russia

Developing Russian venture industry

2/2014 Elena Kasimova Business Development Director Bioprocess Capital Partners Russia

Biotech funds – achieving the maximum results

2/2014 Evgeny Kuznetsov Director Strategic Communications Department RVC Russia

Innovation ecosystem in Russia – entering the global competition

2/2014 Gulnara Bikkulova Director Technology Capital and Markets Access Department RVC Russia

Business of Innovative Technologies (BIT) – the largest innovation contest in Russia

2/2014 Igor Rozhdesvenskiy

CEO Ingria Business Incubator Russia

Business incubators and technoparks – connecting the elements of the innovative ecosystem

2/2014 Konstantin Fokin CEO Centre for Innovation Development City of Moscow

CEO/President National Business-Angels Association Russia

Flying with the wings of business angels

2/2014 Maria Podlesnova CEO & Cofounder RusBase Russia

RusBase – single point of entry to the Russian technological media space

2/2014 Michael Kharuzin Investment Director RVC Seed Fund Russia

RVC Seed Fund – sawing into success

2/2014 Natalia Polyakova Head of Institutional Department RVC Russia

Intellectual property in technology development in Russia

2/2014 Renat Garipov GreenfieldProject Co-founder Russia

Russian Startup Rating – ranking the success stories

2/2014 Victor Sidnev General Director TECHNOSPARK Nanotech Center in Troitsk Russia

Regional innovative cluster – Troitsk Innovation Center

155

2/2014

Stanislav Babich Dmitry Vasilenko

Associate Professor Department of Regional Economics St. Petersburg State University of Economics Russia Associate Professor Department of International Economic Relations Vice-Rector on International RelationsSt. Petersburg State University of Economics Russia

The perspectives of the Russian-EU cooperation in the field of use of the LNG as motor fuel in the Baltic Sea region

2/2014 Alexey Kuznetsov Deputy Director Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

Corresponding Member Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor MGIMO University Russia

The Russian FDI in the Baltic Sea region

2/2014 Anna Beitāne Associate Fellow Latvian Institute of International Affairs Latvia

The soft power dimension of Russia’s foreign policy towards the Baltic States

2/2014

Andrey Makarychev Alexander Sergunin

Professor of International Relations University of Tartu Estonia Professor of International Relations St. Petersburg State University Russia

Russia’s Baltic policies – what kind of soft power?

2/2014

Juhana Lounela Tapio Riihinen

Senior Lecturer Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland Managing Partner, Senior Consultant ManagEast Oy Finland

Western companies promoting transformation of leadership culture in Russia

2/2014 Yury Zverev Dr., Associate Professor Head Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Spatial Development Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia

The Kaliningrad region – a search for a new model of economic development

2/2014 Kaja Tampere Ph.D., Professor of Communication Management Tallinn University Estonia

Strategic Communication Management (CM) in the post-communist Baltic Sea region

156

2/2014 Jari Kaivo-oja Research Director Finland Futures Research Centre Turku School of Economics University of Turku

Adjunct Professor Faculty of Science University of Helsinki Finland

Cross external debt position analysis in the Nordic and in the Baltic Sea countries – quartiles 2011Q4-2013Q3

2/2014 Joanna Żukowska Ph.D., Assistant Professor Warsaw School of Economics Poland

Modern marketing communication on the Polish market

2/2014 Małgorzata Ludwiczek

Director of the Secretariat Youth of the Westpomeranian Region Poland

Coordinator Working Group on Youth Policy Baltic Sea States Subregional Cooperation

The future of youth cooperation in the Baltic Sea region

2/2014

Marcin Chełminiak Wojciech Kotowicz

Dr., Adjunct Professor Institute of Political Science Dr., Adjunct Professor Institute of Political Science University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn Poland

Local border traffic between Poland and the Kaliningrad region – international and cross-border determinants

2/2014 Walter Leal Filho Professor, Chair Regional Centre of Exprertise in Hamburg

Head Research and Transfer Centre Applications of Life Sciences Faculty of Life Sciences Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Germany

Fostering sustainability and university networking – a case study from the RCE Hamburg and Region

2/2014 Piotr Masiukiewicz Ph.D., Professor Warsaw School of Economics Institute of Value Management

Former President of Polish banks Poland

Crisis taxes – threats and opportunities

2/2014 Alexander Fehér Professor BUP National Centre

Department of Sustainable Development Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra Slovakia

A BUP motivated system of education for sustainable development in Slovakia

157

2/2014 Visvaldas Varžinskas

Associate Professor Kaunas University of Technology Institute of Environmental Engineering (APINI) Lithuania

Kaunas University of Technology – steps towards sustainable university

2/2014

Remigijus Čiegis Linas Kliučininkas

Professor Department of Business Economics and Management Kaunas Faculty of Humanities Vilnius University Lithuania Professor Department of Environmental Engineering Faculty of Chemical Technology Kaunas University of Technology Lithuania

Assessment of sustainable university development

2/2014 Thomas S. Grindsted Kaisu Sammalisto Tove Holm

Ph.D. student Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change Roskilde University Denmark Ph.D., MBA, Associate Professor Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development University of Gävle Sweden M.Sc., Environmental Coordinator Novia University of Applied Sciences Finland

ESDAN – with quality management systems towards sustainability

2/2014

Murat Zh. Nurushev Dana Aikio

Professor, Doctor of Biology Eurasian National University Member Academy of Sciences RAEN Kazakhstan Ph.D. of Economics LST Group Finland

Development prospects for trade and economic relations between Kazakhstan and Finland in a short run

2/2014 Irina Lyutomskaya Senior Lecturer, Teacher of English and Russian Foreign Languages Department Petersburg State Transport University Russia

Durham and St. Petersburg – university partners

158

2/2014 Kari Liuhto Professor of the Russian economy Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Despite the NATO membership of the Baltic States their exports to Russia grown faster than those of Finland between 2004 and 2013

1/2014 Štefan Füle European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy

EU-Belarus –

relations conditioned on respect for values and based on contacts with people

1/2014 Vladimir Makei Minister of Foreign Affairs The Republic of Belarus

Belarus and Finland – forging a brighter future

1/2014 Filip Kaczmarek Chairman EP Delegation for Relations with Belarus European Parliament

EU-Belarus relations

1/2014 Evgeni Kirilov Co-President Euronest Parliamentary Assembly

Member European Parliament since 2007 from the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats

Member EP Committees on Foreign Affairs, Security and Defence, Regional Development

Member EP Delegations for relations with the countries from the South Caucasus and with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Honourable Member Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

The EU’s Eastern Partnership and Belarus

1/2014 Qimiao Fan Country Director for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine The World Bank

Belarus needs bold and comprehensive reforms to achieve sustainable growth

1/2014 Maira Mora Ambassador Head of Delegation Delegation of the European Union to Belarus

EU-Belarus – necessary partnership

1/2014 Francis Delaey Head Minsk Resident Office EBRD

Unleashing Belarus’ potential

1/2014 Alexander Ostrovsky

Ambassador of Belarus to Finland Eurasian integration – benefits for European businesses

159

1/2014 Sergey V. Ablameyko

Rector Belarusian State University

Doctor of Science

Academician National Academy of Science Belarus

Belarusian-Finnish cooperation in education and science – case of BSU

1/2014 Juha Hämäläinen Juuso Viitikko

Chairman Director Finnish Belarusian Chamber of Commerce Finland

Belarus – developing economy

1/2014 Antti O.K. Nieminen

Ph.D., Adjunct Professor Managing Director Kiilto Oy Finland

Kiilto Oy – first steps in the adhesives business in Belarus

1/2014

Topi Paananen Andrei Naumovich

CEO Peikko Group Corporation Finland Managing Director Peikko BelRus FLLC Belarus

Peikko Group and Belarus

1/2014 Pavel Laschenko Country Managing Partner for Belarus Ernst & Young Belarus

Business environment in Belarus today

1/2014 Halina Shmarlouskaya

Doctor of Economics Professor of Economics

Dean School of International Economic Relations Belarus State Economic University Belarus

External economic potential of the Republic of Belarus – economic outlook

1/2014 Irina Yeremeyeva Dr., Associate Professor Belarusian State Economic University Belarus

EU-Belarus relations – threats and political opportunities

1/2014

Sierž Naūrodski

Uladzimir Valetka

President

CASE Fellow

CASE Belarus Belarus

Securities market in Belarus – still undisclosed potential

160

1/2014

Aleksei Bykov

Anna Zezulkina

Dr. in Economics, Professor

Belarus State Economic University Belarus

Measuring risks of regional development – case of Belarus

1/2014 Elena A. Dostanko Director Center for International Studies Belarusian State University Belarus

Belarusian-Finnish relations

1/2014 Hanna Smith Researcher Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Eurasian integration as a defining factor in Belarusian foreign policy

1/2014 Uladzimir Rouda Ph.D. in Political Science Professor European Humanities University Lithuania

The crisis of the Belarusian economic model

1/2014 Dzmitry Kruk Researcher Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Centre Belarus

Belarus – a chance to convert past mistakes into new advantages

1/2014 Galina Gavrilko Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Department of International Economic Relations Belarusian State University Belarus

Integration on the territory of the former Soviet Union – a search for an optimum model

1/2014 Kari Liuhto Professor, Director Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

How the Finnish firms view the Belarus business environment?

7/2013 Lauri Ihalainen Minister of Labour Finland

The Finnish marine industry in the midst of structural change

7/2013 Ari Puheloinen General Commander Finnish Defence Forces Finland

Security in the Baltic Sea area

7/2013 Eeva-Johanna Eloranta

MA, MSSc Member of Parliament of Finland Member of the City Council of Turku Member of the Nordic Council Finland

The Baltic connection

7/2013 Jukka Kopra Member of Parliament National Coalition Party Chairman of the Board Regional Council of South-Carelia Finland

Economic growth in South-Eastern Finland

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7/2013 Ritva Koukku-Ronde

Ambassador of Finland to the United States of America

The Baltic Sea region has a role in transatlantic relations

7/2013 Elisabeth Kerher Austrian ambassador in Finland Austria and Finland – a partnership with room for improvement

7/2013 Björn Carlson Valery Gergiev Juha Nurminen Esa-Pekka Salonen Michael Tydén

Founder and Chairman of the Board Baltic Sea2020 Foundation Counductor Artistic and General Director of the Mariinsky Theatre and co-founder of the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm Founder and Chairman of the Board John Nurminen Foundation Composer and conductor Co-founder of the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm General Manager of Berwaldhallen Co-founder of the Baltic Sea Festival in Stockholm

The Baltic Sea orchestra is playing out of tune

7/2013 Alex Prilutskii Dr., Rev., General Secretary The Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Ingria Russia

Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Ingria

7/2013 Ilya Ermakov Senior Adviser: Economic Cooperation, Maritime Policy, Energy Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS)

CBSS Expert Group on maritime policy – towards better coherence among actors in the Baltic Sea region

7/2013 Janne Laine Mayor Savonlinna Finland

Cooperation with Russia benefits Eastern Finland

7/2013 Maksim Meyksin Chairman Committee for Industrial Policy and Innovations City of St. Petersburg Russia

Innovation development of St. Petersburg

7/2013 Irina Gladysheva Minister of Economic Development and Competition Policy The Arkhangelsk region Russia

Territory available for investors

7/2013 José Valanta Business Development Director City of Vantaa Finland

Vantaa – Finland's link with the world

162

7/2013 Juhani Pekkala Managing Director Finnish Commerce Federation Finland

The Baltic is a challenge to trade

7/2013 Kari Häyrinen CEO & President Finpro Finland

Finland welcomes foreign investors

7/2013 Timo Pietiläinen Head of Representative Office Finnvera Plc, St. Petersburg Russia

Finnvera promotes the internationalisation of SMEs in Russia

7/2013 Yuri Piskulov Dr. (Econ.), Professor Russian Foreign Trade Academy and Russian State Academy of Intellectual Property Rights

Editor Journal “Mezhdunarodnaya ekonomika” Russia

The joint global competitiveness – an ambitious goal of trade policy between Russia and Finland

7/2013 Petri Lahesmaa Director, EU Affairs The Beneficiaries of Finnish Lottery Belgium

Responsible gaming system – the most efficient way to prevent money laundering

7/2013 Markku Kivikoski President Tampere University of Technology Finland

Technology for the benefit of people and the environment

7/2013 Leonids Ribickis

Arturs Zeps

Rector

Advisor to the Rector

Riga Technical University Latvia

Role of advisory council in developing competitive technological universities

7/2013 Matti Manninen Rector University of Jyväskylä Finland

University of Jyväskylä – ahead of its time for 150 years

7/2013 Anatoly Voronin Rector Petrozavodsk State University Russia

Petrozavodsk State University cooperation with the Finnish universities and organizations

7/2013 Kalle-Antti Suominen

Professor in Physics Vice-rector for Research University of Turku Finland

University of Turku – with research to better future

7/2013 Hannu Salmela Vice Dean Turku School of Economics Finland

The future of business education in the Baltic Sea region

7/2013 Matti Lievonen President & CEO Neste Oil Finland

An oil company’s perspective on operating in the Baltic Rim

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7/2013

Klaus Töpfer Carolin Sperk

Professor, Executive Director Research Assistant Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies Potsdam Germany

Germany’s energy policy – responsibility and chance for sustainable development

7/2013 Frank Apel Senior Vice President Sales Central Europe and Nordic Countries AREVA GmbH

AREVA in a key position to support Baltic Rim countries in their future energy strategy

7/2013 Jukka Ruusunen President and CEO Fingrid Oyj Finland

Towards a Northern Dimension electricity market?

7/2013 Denis Kolchin Associate Professor Investment and Innovation Chair Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation Russia

Risks and opportunities analysis in the oil and gas industry of Russia

7/2013

Artur Usanov Alexander Kharin

Strategic Analyst The Hague Centre of Strategic Studies The Netherlands Lecturer Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad Russia

Oil production in Kaliningrad

7/2013 Jānis Bērziņš Director National Defence Academy of Latvia Center for Security and Strategic Research Latvia

Financial markets and the threat for European security

7/2013 Sakari Martimo Capt (N) Commandant Finnish Naval Academy Finland

The Finnish Naval Academy – international cooperation

7/2013 Tomasz Szatkowski President National Centre for Strategic Studies Foundation Poland

Asmus Fellow German Marshall Fund of the United States

Poland and prospects for defence cooperation with Nordic countries

7/2013 Kari Huhta Diplomatic Editor Helsingin Sanomat Finland

Debating NATO in Finland and Sweden – some wind, less motion

7/2013 Lauri Kontro Editor-in-Chief Maaseudun Tulevaisuus Finland

Northern Europe as a model region for agriculture

164

7/2013 Anna Scherbakova St. Petersburg bureau chief Vedomosti Russian business daily

Guest lecturer School of Journalism and Mass Communications of St.Petersburg State University Russia

Investment climate of St. Petersburg in the mirror of media

7/2013 Jürgen Sorgenfrei Dr., Director Consulting IHS Global Germany

German Baltic ports – forecast 2030

7/2013 Sturla Henriksen CEO Norwegian Shipowners’ Association Norway

High North – high stakes: maritime activities in the Arctic

7/2013 Stephen Blank Senior Fellow American Foreign Policy Council The United States of America

The Arctic as a manifestation of international transformation

7/2013 Ulrika Larpes Attorney-at-law Representative for the Shipowners´ Foundation Finland

Shipping as a strategic enabler for Finnish industry

7/2013 Beata Madejska Lawyer BSR InnoShip project Poland

Lower emissions from ships in the light of provisions of “sulphur directive” adopted by the European Union

7/2013 Jaakko Mäkikalli Marketing Manager Turku Fair & Congress Center Finland

The power of personal and genuine encounters – the key to the success of fairs

7/2013 Shinichiro Tabata Professor Slavic Research Center Hokkaido University Japan

Will the boom in Japan-Russia economic relations continue?

7/2013 Henrikki Tikkanen D.Sc., Professor Aalto University School of Business Finland

Professor Stockholm University School of Business Sweden

Visiting Professor Asian Institute of Technology Thailand

Large Finnish companies’ international business strategies – an outlook

7/2013 Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen

Professor of Finnish history University of Turku Finland

Maternity health – political issue in 18th century Finland and Sweden

165

7/2013 Jukka Korpela PhD, Professor of History Head of the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies University of Eastern Finland Finland

Positive and negative market forces in university life

7/2013 Yuri Mazurov Professor Moscow State Lomonosov University Russia

Sport in modern society – reflections on the eve of the Olympic Games in Sochi

7/2013 Petri Minkkinen Dr., Researcher and Chair Science and Art Association KAKTUS Finland

Karelia in the Finnish-Russian relations

7/2013 Kirsti Virtanen International Relations Manager Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland

Russian cooperation in Finnish universities of applied sciences

7/2013 Dmitry Gudimenko CEO, Capital Development Group Ltd. Member of the board, Construction Company SUART Helsinki – St. Petersburg

Urban development cooperation in the Baltic region

7/2013 Tomas Janeliūnas Associate Professor Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilnius University Lithuania

Third party in the EU EaP Programme

7/2013 Ihor Lishchynskyy Head of International Relations Department Ternopil National Economic University Ukraine

International relations of Ternopil National Economic University and Baltic Rim universities

7/2013 Matthew Broad Dr., Associate Lecturer Department of History University of Reading UK

Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Political History University of Turku Finland

Anglo-Nordic relations – past, present, future

166

6/2013 Jochen Schulte Roger Jansson

Member of Parliament Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Rapporteur of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference BSPC on Integrated Maritime Policy Former Chairman of the BSPC Working Group on Integrated Maritime Policy Vice President of the Åland Parliament Rapporteur of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference BSPC on Integrated Maritime Policy Former Vice Chairman of the BSPC Working Group on Integrated Maritime Policy

The maritime agenda of the Rapporteurs of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference on Integrated Maritime Policy

6/2013 Janne Tamminen Executive Secretary CPMR Baltic Sea Commission

The future of maritime regions around the Baltic Sea

6/2013 Gun Rudeberg Chris Wooldridge

Legal Counsel and Head of Environmental Affairs at Ports of Stockholm Chairman of the European Sea Port Organization’s Sustainable Development Committee Dr., Honorary Senior Research Fellow Cardiff University, UK Science Coordinator & Senior Trainer Eco-SLC

Clean Baltic Sea – the role of ports

6/2013 Emil Arolski Project Manager LNG in Baltic Sea Ports & Baltic Ports Organization Baltic Ports Organization c/o Actia Forum Ltd

LNG in Baltic Sea Ports Project

6/2013 Stefan Jankowski Maritime University Szczecin Poland

Possibilities for the use of LNG as a fuel on the Baltic Sea

6/2013 Gonçalo Carneiro Programme Manager / Consultant NIRAS International Consulting Stockholm Sweden

Maritime spatial planning – a new layer in integrated marine management

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6/2013 Michael Baldauf Dr.-Ing, Associate Professor Maritime Safety and Environmental Administration, Chief Instructor Maritime Simulation MaRiSa – Research group 'Maritime Risk and System Safety' World Maritime University Malmö Sweden

e-Navigation – a key for safe, efficient and sustainable shipping

6/2013 Proshanto K. Mukherjee

Professor Lund University Sweden

The international legal framework of MONALISA

6/2013 Mikko Varjanne M.Sc. Economics Chief Operative Officer SHIPSU.com

Using modern web-based solutions in connecting marine industry professionals

6/2013 Raphaël Baumler Dr., Associate Professor World Maritime University

Containership gigantism – reaching the limits of uncertainty

6/2013 Neil Bellefontaine Ilias Visvikis

Professor, Vice President (Academics) Associate Professor Director of Executive and Professional Development World Maritime University

The current and future needs of postgraduate maritime education

6/2013 Urszula Kowalczyk Head of Economics and Law Department Maritime Institute Gdansk Poland

Current trends in the Polish maritime industry

6/2013 Alari Purju Eva Branten

Director Department of Logistics, Tallinn University of Technology Estonia Research Assistant Department of Logistics, Tallinn University of Technology Estonia

Maritime sector stakeholders and new regulations

6/2013 Sari Nyroos Training Manager Centre for Maritime Studies University of Turku Finland

SmartComp – Finnish perspective through national consultation days

168

6/2013

Esta Kaal

Kaja Tampere

SmartComp project partner

Professor of communication management SmartComp project consultant

Tallinn University Institute of Communication Estonia

Does the Central Baltic region maritime cluster need a brand?

6/2013 Tony Munoz Publisher & Editor-in-Chief The Maritime Executive The USA

Surging U.S. energy production revives maritime sector

6/2013 Arto Kuuluvainen PhD, Research Manager Centre for Collaborative Research Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Finnish marine SMEs in Brazil

6/2013

Makiko Kubo Takuma Matsuda

Researcher Japan Maritime Center Japan Researcher Japan Maritime Center Japan

Seafarer demand forecast based on economic conditions

6/2013 Ari Virtanen Head of Finland Trade Center Finpro South Korea

Korean marine industry and opportunities for Baltic region

6/2013

Jari Makkonen Sari Arho Havrén

Head of Trade Center Finpro China PhD, Consul (Innovation) Consulate General of Finland Shanghai TEKES China

Common value chains in East Asia – case shipbuilding

6/2013 Minghui Gao Research Assistant Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Skyrocketing Chinese maritime cluster and its future development with international partners

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6/2013

Eini Laaksonen Hanna Mäkinen

Project Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland Project Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

The booming maritime sector in the Far East – what’s in it for Finnish companies?

5/2013 Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga

President of Latvia (1999-2007) Latvia

What kind of Latvia in what kind of Europe?

5/2013 Algirdas Butkevičius

Prime Minister Lithuania

Lithuanian success – from crisis towards credible European Union

5/2013 Arvydas Pocius Lieutenant General Chief of Defense Lithuania

Back to the family – two decades of military-to-military U.S.-Baltic relationship

5/2013 Andris Vilks Minister of Finance Latvia

The euro – the key driving force in competition to promote sustainable growth

5/2013 Päivi Räsänen Minister of the Interior Finland

Finland prepares for increased eastern mobility and possible visa-free travel between EU and Russia

5/2013 Rein Lang Minister of Culture Estonia

Like minded Baltic cultures

5/2013 Hannes Swoboda President Alliance of Socialists & Democrats in the European Parliament

A new transatlantic alliance must be based on shared values and shared objectives

5/2013 Jouni Backman Member of Parliament Chairman of the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group Finland

The Silicon Sea?

5/2013 Anu Urpalainen Member of Parliament of Finland Member of City Council of Imatra Finland

The Russian border – yesterday´s curse, today´s possibility

5/2013 Ine Eriksen Søreide MP for the Norwegian Conservative Party (Høyre) Norway

The “non-race to the Arctic” – some observations from Norway

5/2013 Olli-Pekka Heinonen

State Secretary Prime Minister’s Office Finland

The change of the Arctic geography

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5/2013 Petteri Taalas Professor Director-General Finnish Meteorological Institute Finland

Baltic maritime safety and research know-how is applicable in the Arctic

5/2013 Alexander Sergunin Professor of International Relations St. Petersburg State University Russia

Is Russia a revisionist or status quo power in the Arctic?

5/2013 Jørg Willy Bronebakk

Ambassador Royal Norwegian Embassy in Finland

Managing the Arctic – challenges and opportunities

5/2013 Urban Rusnák Secretary General Energy Charter Secretariat

Shifting the parameters of the debate on global energy challenges – investment needs to become the buzzword

5/2013 Galymzhan Koishybayev

Ambassador Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the Republic of Finland

New opportunities for cooperation with Kazakhstan

5/2013 Monika Sztajerowska

Trade Policy Analyst OECD

Russia’s first year in the WTO – hip, hip hooray?

5/2013 Yaroslav Kuzminov Isak Froumin

Rector National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow Academic Supervisor HSE Graduate School of Education National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Moscow Russia

Universal higher education and its social and economic impact – case of Russia

5/2013 Jyri Häkämies Director General Confederation of Finnish Industries, EK Finland

Baltic Sea market – new era, new challenges

5/2013 Antti Sippola CEO (acting) SOK Finland

S Group seeks growth from its neighbouring countries

5/2013 Markku Andersson Mayor City of Jyväskylä Finland

Jyväskylä and the Union of the Baltic Cities

5/2013 Jukka Savolainen Capt (CG) Commander of West Finland Coast Guard District Finland

West Finland coast guard district – slimming down with help of synergies and technical applications

5/2013 Jarkko Saksa Deputy DG Finnish Customs Finland

Maritime traffic at the threshold of the new customs regime

171

5/2013 Juha Mutru Managing Director Finnish Port Operators Association Mutru Finland

Finnish harbours in Russia's transit traffic

5/2013 Katri Pynnöniemi Researcher The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

A new matrix for Russia’s shipbuilding industry? Civilian-military and public-private partnerships

5/2013 Veijo Hyvönen Managing Editor, Economic and Business News Turun Sanomat (the third largest daily newspaper in Finland) Finland

Eurozone's model student Finland fell into a debt trap

5/2013 Jānis Ikstens Director Advanced Social and Political Research Institute University of Latvia Latvia

Latvia and euro – a window of opportunity

5/2013 Kim Talus Professor of European Law University of Eastern Finland Finland

Regulatory exemption for the Finnish–Baltic gas markets – the impact of an LNG terminal

5/2013 Joseph Dutton Global Gas Security Project University of Leicester The UK

The global gas revolution – why European shale might not matter

5/2013 Mikhail I. Levinbuk Dmitry Yu. Murzin

Professor Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Moscow Russia Professor Åbo Akademi University, Turku Finland

Oil refining in Russia – time for a change

5/2013 Rafal Bajczuk Expert Department for Germany and Northern Europe Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), Warsaw Poland

Germany’s energy transformation and the coal ‘renaissance’

5/2013 Ionut Purica Dr., Senior Researcher Institute for Economic Forecasting The Romanian Academy Romania

From the Varangians to the Greeks – critical infrastructures interconnector

5/2013 Päivi Ilves Programme Director South-East Finland – Russia ENPI CBC 2007-2013 Finland

Development of regional cooperation between South-East Finland and St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region

5/2013 Heikki Aalto CEO Bothnian Arc Finland

Bothnian Arc – vital cross-border area in northernmost part of the Baltic Sea

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5/2013

Roland Trill Anna-Lena Pohl

Dr., Professor for Business Studies, Hospital Management and eHealth Management Secretariat of the eHealth for Regions Network Flensburg University of Applied Sciences MA, Management Secretariat of the eHealth for Regions Network Flensburg University of Applied Sciences Germany

Cross-border cooperation in eHealth issues in the Baltic Sea Region – the eHealth for regions network as facilitator and booster

5/2013 Aniela Tejchman Head of International Relations Office Gdansk University of Technology Poland

Gdansk University of Technology and its cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region

5/2013 Michael Alexeev and Robert Conrad

Professor of Economics Indiana University/Bloomington

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Economics Duke University

The USA

Russia’s small business tax regimes

5/2013

Johanna Aaltonen Graham Appleby María Fernanda Bocángel Taina Laiho

Subproject Manager University of Turku Finland Industrial Liaison Officer DESY Germany Communication Manager Invest in Skåne Sweden Project Researcher University of Turku Finland

Science Link adds value to BSR's industry and SMEs

5/2013 Eero Aro Senior Scientist Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute Finland

Sustainable exploitation of the Baltic Sea fish resources require integration of thinking

5/2013 Henrik Meinander Dr., Professor of History University of Helsinki Finland

Context matters

5/2013 Veikko Saksi MA (Econ.), Editor-in-Chief Karjalan Kuvalehti Finland

Finnophobia replaces finlandization

5/2013 Helene Carlbäck Associate Professor in History former Director of the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies Södertörn University Sweden

Gender equality the Nordic way – an asset in soft diplomacy towards the Baltic Sea Region?

173

5/2013 Li Bennich-Björkman

Johan Skytte Professor in Eloquentia and Political Science Research Director Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Uppsala University Sweden

Baltic States – choices on citizenship and Western integration

5/2013 Oleg Bukhovets Doctor of History Science, Professor Head of the Department of Political Sciences Belarus State Economic University Belarus

How can the post-Soviet countries use the Belarusian subsurface regulations?

5/2013 Valentina Simkhovich

Doctor of sociology, Professor Dean of the Faculty of Management Belarus State Economic University Belarus

Belarus is pregnant with charity

5/2013 Kari Liuhto Professor at the University of Turku Director of the Centrum Balticum Foundation Finland

NATO occupies a half of Russia’s foreign economic relations

4/2013 Merja Kyllönen Minister for Transport Finland

Developing the competitiveness of Finnish maritime cluster

4/2013 Michael Prehn Deputy Director Danish Maritime Denmark

Maritime industry in the North

4/2013 Elena G. Efimova Professor of World Economy Department St. Petersburg State University Russia

Russian shipbuilding industry – inside the WTO

4/2013 Heikki Liimatainen Researcher Transport Research Centre Verne Tampere University of Technology Finland

Baltic Sea 2030 – trends and scenarios

4/2013 Vesa Marttinen Managing Director Turku Repair Yard Ltd. part of BLRT Grupp Finland

North-European marine industries – lifecycle business with local shipping, infrastructure and natural resource operators

4/2013 Kimmo Iljin CEO Turku Stevedoring Oy Finland

Port of Turku as part of the development of the maritime cluster in the Baltic Sea region

4/2013 Kimmo Mäki Managing Director Port of Helsinki Finland

Port of Helsinki foresees growth in traffic to Tallinn

4/2013 Annemari Andrésen Manager PBI Research Institute Finland

Finnish logistics cluster

174

4/2013 Jussi Mälkiä President Meriaura Group Finland

Baltic short sea shipping – a strategy for survival

4/2013 Eija Kanto Executive Adviser Finnish Shipowners’ Association Finland

Shipping is the greenest transportation mode but is faced to be even greener

4/2013 Teemu Makkonen Postdoctoral Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Innovation and competitiveness – the future of the maritime companies

4/2013 Kari Laine Dr., Principal Lecturer Satakunta University of Applied Sciences Finland

Open innovation between firms and universities

4/2013 Maria Mustonen Project Manager TFK Transport Research Institute Sweden

The dilemma of vessel noise

4/2013 Jouni Saarni Project Researcher Centre for Collaborative Research Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Dynamic capabilities in Finnish maritime industry during the years of weak demand and uncertainty from 2009 to 2012

4/2013 Teijo Niemelä Editor and Publisher Cruise Business Review The USA and Finland

Shipbuilding industry needs a sustainable orderbook to survive

4/2013 Kimmo Juurmaa Managing Director Offshore Technology Center Oy Finland

Finnish maritime industry – observations from the IFCO project

4/2013 Eini Laaksonen Hanna Mäkinen

Project Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland Project Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

How to support the competitiveness and networking of the maritime clusters in the Central Baltic region?

3/2013 Joaquín Almunia Vice President responsible for Competition Policy European Commission

Government subsidies and the internal market – another evolutionary step for Europe’s State aid policy

3/2013 Jari Koskinen Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Finland

Finland will meet the renewable targets with forest energy

3/2013 Urmas Paet Minister of Foreign Affairs Estonia

NATO and the Baltic Sea Region – an Estonian perspective

175

3/2013 Viktor Mayko Deputy Minister Ministry for Foreign Affairs Ukraine

Ukraine – in search of success in the modern world

3/2013 Romana Jordan Slovenian Member European Parliament

The role of nuclear energy in European sustainable energy mix

3/2013 Sampo Terho Member European Parliament

The Baltic Sea: stable and safe – for now

3/2013 Vilja Savisaar-Toomast

Member Committee on Transport and Tourism European Parliament

Rail Baltica and Baltic-Adriatic Growth corridor influence to the regional cohesion policy

3/2013 Nils Torvalds Member European Parliament

In a sea of challenges

3/2013 Tom Packalén Member of Parliament Finland

Security policy in the north

3/2013 Arto Satonen Member of Parliament, Vice-Chairman National Coalition Party’s Parliamentary Group Finland

Tuition fees in Finland for foreign students outside of EU/EEA -area

3/2013

Janusz Niesyto

Jari Vilén

Ambassador of Poland in Finland

Ambassador of Finland in Poland

Baltic Sea region at the heart of Poland's and Finland’s foreign policy

3/2013 Arthur König Dr., Mayor City of Greifswald Germany

Greifswald and its international activities within the Baltic Sea Region

3/2013 Sverker Göranson General, Supreme Commander Swedish Armed Forces Sweden

Security in the Baltic Sea region

3/2013 Jaakko Kaukanen Chief of the Finnish Border Guard Lieutenant General Finland

The Baltic Sea countries are fore-runners in cooperation in coast guard functions

3/2013

Arunas Molis Florinda Giacomelli

Dr., Chief Strategic Analysis and Research Division NATO ENSEC COE Lithuania MIREES Master student University of Bologna Italy Intern NATO ENSEC COE Lithuania

Operational energy security in NATO context – looking to the future

3/2013 Claes Levinsson Director Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS) Uppsala University Sweden

Baltic security – a word of caution

176

3/2013 Slava Khodko Scientific Adviser Center on Cross-Border and Interregional Cooperation Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg branch Russia

The Baltic Sea Region – strategies, projects and cooperation

3/2013 Kai Paananen CEO SET Group Oy Finland

Opportunities for Finland – the Arctic and Russia

3/2013 Esko Mustamäki Managing Director Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Inc. Finland

The Arctic shipbuilding market – a real opportunity or a distant dream?

3/2013 Kari Liuhto Member of Board of Directors Helsinki Sustainability Center Professor, Director Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

The Nordic Countries on the top of the world in snow-how

3/2013 Carsten Ørts Hansen

Associate Professor CBS Maritime Copenhagen Business School Denmark

Shipping in the Baltic Sea – stormy waters ahead?

3/2013

Olli-Pekka Brunila Anni Anttila

Researcher University of Turku Centre for Maritime Studies Maritime Logistics Research Unit in Kotka Finland Project manager Kymenlaakso University of Applied Science Finland

Green co-operation in the eastern Gulf of Finland

3/2013 Juha Kalli Project engineer Centre for Maritime Studies University of Turku Finland

Baltic maritime transport on rough sea

3/2013 Marc Auboin Counsellor Economic Research and Statistics Division WTO

The WTO Academic Programme and Saint-Petersburg State University

3/2013 Fredrik Erixon Director, Co-founder European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) (a world-economy think tank based in Brussels) Belgium

Russia in the World Trade Organisation – improving the chances of success

177

3/2013

Sergey F. Sutyrin

Olga Y. Trofimenko

Professor, Head, WTO Chair holder Associate Professor World Economy Department St. Petersburg State University Russia

Does Russian accession to the WTO matter for the competitiveness of domestic companies?

3/2013 Vladimir Salamatov Vladimir Salamatov Director General World Trade Center Moscow Russia

Evolution of regulatory measures – from tariff to non-tariff

3/2013 Ihar Hancharonak Tatyana Prannik

Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs PhD, Associate Professor Director of the Centre for International Cooperation and Educational Programmes Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus

Educational integration for sustainable economic development

3/2013 Sergey Kizima Head Department of International Relations Academy of Public Administration under the aegies of the President of the Republic of Belarus

Chinese vector of Eurasian integration

3/2013 Olga S. Shimova Dr. hab. (Economics), Professor Belarus State Economic University Belarus

Environmental economics for sustainable development

3/2013 Eduard Simchanka Professor Institute for Parliamentary and Entrepreneurship Minsk Belarus

Small and medium enterprises in Belarus – status and problems

3/2013

Elena Dadzerkina Maria Usik

PhD, Doctoral Candidate The Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Belarus Student The 5th course of The Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus

Status and prospects for development of rail transport in Belarus

3/2013

Daria Lipatova

Pekka Viljakainen

Evgenia Mayer

Sergey Blintsov

Partner Projects Manager, RVC

Advisor to the President Skolkovo Foundation

Head of Partner Department, RVC

Head of Zvorykinsky Project

Russia

Russian startup tour – bringing international experience to Russian regions

178

3/2013 Ilkka Linnakko and Tomas Rosin

Partner CEO, Partner TRIDARA

The TRIPADA concept – a road map for concretely turning Russian innovations to local and global benefits!

3/2013 Tero Piispanen Program Director Finnish HealthBIO cluster VP ScanBalt Finland

Early stage growth financing is needed in the growing Life Sciences sector

3/2013 Sari Autio-Sarasmo PhD, Research Coordinator Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Technology transfer between East and West and Russia’s economic modernisation

3/2013 Nikolay M. Megevich Simon J. Chernyak

Doctor of Economics, Professor Master of European Studies St. Petersburg State University Russia

Cross-border innovation strategies – Russian-Finnish experience

3/2013 Arkady Ryabichenko

Junior Research Fellow Social and economic Studies centre Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia

Russian innovative ambitions as positive factor for country image in Nordic

3/2013 Vlad Ivanenko Senior energy economist Canadian Ministry of Natural Resources Canada

Is the price of Russian natural gas inflated for the Baltic Rim?

3/2013 Venelin Tsachevsky PhD, Professor, Director Contemporary Foreign Policy Studies Centre Former Bulgarian Ambassador to Finland and Estonia Bulgaria

Energy development in South-East Europe and the Baltic Sea region – similar problems, similar prospects

3/2013 Gennady Kretinin Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Director REC Baltic region Manager Baltic Research and Information Center Russian Institute of Strategic Research Russia

On the perspectives of building nuclear power plant in Lithuania

3/2013 Elena Paltseva Research Fellow SITE Stockholm School of Economics Sweden

Visiting Professor New Economic School Russia

Supply diversification and allocation of bargaining power in the EU-Russia gas relationship

3/2013 Vladimir Feygin President Institute for Energy and Finance Russia

On interactions between energy markets

179

3/2013 Pekka Hakanen Editor on Financial Affairs Turun Sanomat Finland

Russian roulette with gas

3/2013 Simonas Klimanskis Deputy Director Lithuanian Institute of Development of Social Market Economy Lithuania

The Baltic Sea Region – the positive steps towards ensuring energy security

3/2013 Romas Švedas Independent Expert, Lecturer Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilnius University Lithuania

Energy in Baltics – the last phase of Eurointegration

3/2013 Mihails Rodins, Aleksandr Gaponenko Inna Dovladbekova

Professor Institute of European Studies Dr.oec., Director Institute of European Studies Faculty of European Studies Rigas Stradins University Latvia

Lithuania's energy sector – trends and problems of development

3/2013 David Dusseault Senior Market Analyst Gasum OY Finland

Global energy markets – the view from Espoo

3/2013 Nikolay Dobronravin

Professor School of International Relations St.Petersburg University Russia

Energy politics in the Baltic Sea Region – new Russian perspectives?

3/2013 Jack Sharples PhD Candidate University of Glasgow The UK

Gazprom and the development of spot-pricing on the EU gas market

3/2013 Juho Rahkonen PhD, Research Manager Taloustutkimus Oy Finland

Visa-free travel between EU and Russia might be true in the near future

3/2013 Andrei Yakovlev Director Institute for Industrial and Market Studies National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Vice President Association of Russian Economic Think Tanks (ARETT) Russia

In search of new mechanisms for state-business interaction

3/2013 Kalman Kalotay Economic Affairs Officer United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

The 2013 Cyprus bailout and the Russian foreign direct investment platform

180

3/2013 Wladimir Andreff Professor Emeritus University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne Honorary Member of the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies France

Russian multinational companies and state capitalism

3/2013 Morten Hansen Head of Economics Department Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Latvia

Joining the Eurozone – Latvia’s destiny?

3/2013 Timo Hellenberg CEO Hellenberg International Limited Finland

From enlargement to enhancement – towards a civil security financial instrument of the Baltic Sea Region?

3/2013 Marek Dabrowski Fellow CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research Warsaw Poland

Inflation and monetary policy in CIS countries

3/2013 Erkki Laukkanen DSc (Econ), Chairman Transparency Finland Finland

Corruption line in Baltics – the key differences between key countries

3/2013 Lars Johannsen PhD, Associate Professor Department of Political Science and Government Business and Social Science Aarhus University Denmark

Bumps ahead

3/2013 Stanisław Bieleń Professor Institute of International Relations University of Warsaw Editor of the Journal Stosunki Międzynarodowe-International Relations Poland

The chances for reconciliation between Poland and Russia

3/2013 Johanna Reiman Executive Director Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association – WHO Collaboration Centre of Urban Health and Healthy Cities in the Baltic Region Finland

15 years of support for cities’ urban health planning in the Baltic Region

3/2013 Helmut Klüter Dr., Professor Institut für Geographie und Geologie Germany

Rural areas of Eastern Germany

3/2013 Ivan Gumeniuk Dr., Research Associate The Institute of Environmental Management, Territorial Development and Urban Construction Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia

The Interreg IIIB BSR programme as a tool for developing a unified transport system in the Baltic macroregion

181

3/2013

Anatoly Anishenko

Aigars Rostovskis

Deputy General Director Nizhny Novgorod Region Chamber of Commerce and Industry Russia

PhD, Chairman Development Council Turiba University Latvia

Promoting business education in the Baltic Sea Region – the case of the Latvian-Russian cooperation

3/2013 Gennady Fedorov Professor, Director Institute of Environmental Management, Spatial Development and Urban Planning Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Russia

New opportunities for Kaliningrad in the development of Russia-EU relations

3/2013 Vladimir Balobaev Researcher Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Kaliningrad Russia

Possible strategies for the Kaliningrad region 2013

2/2013 Klavs A. Holm Under-Secretary for Arctic Affairs Ministry of Foreign Affairs Denmark

The Arctic – regional challenges with global consequences

2/2013 Hannu Halinen Ambassador for Arctic Affairs Finland

Arctic cooperation and business

2/2013 Martti Hahl President Barents Center Finland Oy Finland

What’s next in the Arctic?

2/2013 Kirsi-Maarit Poljatschenko

Head of Trade Center Finpro ry, Operations and Network Finland Trade Center in St. Petersburg Russia

Arctic of Russia – freezing hot business topic

2/2013 Kari Synberg Ph.D in Geography University on Eastern Finland Committee member of Geographical Society of Finland

Russia and the Arctic

2/2013 Katri Pynnöniemi Researcher The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Russia’s new Arctic strategy identifies vulnerabilities but targets modernization

2/2013 Timo Koivurova Research professor, Director The Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law Arctic Centre, University of Lapland Finland

Resource exploitation in the Arctic: incorrect diagnoses, misinterpretations and wrong solutions – how to avoid these?

182

2/2013 Vladimir Didyk and Larissa Riabova

Research Director of the IES KSC RAS Head of department of social policy in the North Luzin Institute for Economic Studies The Kola Science Centre Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Socio-economic development of the Murmansk region – trends and prospects

2/2013 Vesa Rautio Academy Research Fellow Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

The Russian North going global

2/2013 Morten Anker Principal Pöyry Management Consulting AS Norway

The Norwegian Barents Sea adventure

2/2013 Geir Hønneland Research Director Fridtjof Nansen Institute and University of Tromsø Norway

The Barents Sea – successful fisheries management

2/2013 Lawson W. Brigham

PhD, Distinguished Professor of Geography and Arctic Policy University of Alaska Fairbanks The USA

Arctic marine transport driven by natural resource development

2/2013 Yrjö Myllylä Jon McEwan

Senior Research Scientist, Ph.D. RD Aluekehitys Oy Independent researcher, Master’s student International Program of Human Geography at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu Finland

Finland’s world class Arctic marine technology know-how

2/2013 Eini Laaksonen Project Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Business prospects for the Finnish maritime industry in the Arctic

2/2013 Adam Grydehøj Director of Island Dynamics Copenhagen Denmark

Opportunities for local development in a nationally contested Arctic – when Nordic communities engage with Asian economies

2/2013 Masahiro Tokunaga Ph.D., Associate Professor Kansai University Japan

Japanese-Russian business on a brink – how to go with Gazprom?

183

2/2013 Timothy Heleniak The American Geographical Society Associate Research Professor The Department of Geography The University of Maryland The USA

The migration of people in the Arctic

1/2013 Per Westerberg Speaker Swedish Parliament Sweden

The Baltic Sea Region – a Swedish perspective

1/2013 Zoran Milanovic Prime Minister The Republic of Croatia

Croatia – becoming the 28th member state of the European Union

1/2013 Maria Lohela Member (The Finns Party) Parliament of Finland Finland

Mutual trust and reciprocity – a key to success in the Baltic Sea Region

1/2013 Katja Taimela Member Parliament of Finland Finland

Towards a more responsible Baltic Fisheries Policy

1/2013 Xing Huang Ambassador Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Finland

Maintaining a sound all-win relationship between China-Finland in the future

1/2013 Veiko Spolitis Parliamentary secretary The Latvian Ministry of Defence Latvia

Latvian defence planning in transforming security environment – political perspective 2011–2013

1/2013 Hannu Miettunen Head News Department Turun Sanomat Finland

Finland and Sweden – military allies? Never and yet for all times

1/2013 Erwin Sellering Prime Minister Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Germany

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and its relations with the countries of the Baltic Sea Region

1/2013 Alexander Khudilainen

Head The Republic of Karelia Russia

Cooperation of the Republic of Karelia with Finland at the present stage of development

1/2013 Janne Virtanen Acting Director Regional Promotion Regional Council of Southwest Finland

Northern growth corridor – an opportunity for Southwest Finland

1/2013 Sergei Guriev Professor of Economics and Rector New Economic School Russia

Is Russian economy overheated?

1/2013 Piia-Noora Kauppi Managing Director Federation of Finnish Financial Services Finland

Nordic-Baltic financial zone needs a well-functioning banking union

184

1/2013 Leszek Balcerowicz Aleksander Łaszek

Professor of Economics, Head International Comparative Studies Department Ph.D. Candidate Warsaw School of Economics Poland

Internal devaluation can work

1/2013 Vlasta Macku Chief UNCTAD Virtual Institute United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Academic capacity building on trade for development in Belarus and Russia –contribution of the UNCTAD Virtual Institute

1/2013 Jan Lundin Director General CBSS International Secretariat

The Council of the Baltic Sea States in the era of regional strategies, networks and projects

1/2013 Kari Liuhto Professor Turku School of Economics University of Turku

Director Pan-European Institute, Centrum Balticum Finland

The Baltic Sea region and the Pan-European Institute

1/2013 Hans Brask Director Baltic Development Forum Denmark

Energy efficiency in Russia – experiences from Kaliningrad region

1/2013 Eero Toivainen Senior Consultant Finpro, Life Sciences Finland

FinlandCare – health from Finland

1/2013 Alan Riley Professor City Law School City University The United Kingdom

Gazprom on the antitrust ropes

1/2013 Taavi Veskimägi CEO Elering AS Estonia

Liberalisation of the Estonian gas market

1/2013 Irina V. Zeleneva Professor Department of World Politics School of International Relations Saint Petersburg State University Russia

Russian geostrategy in the energy sphere in the Baltic Sea region

1/2013 Agnia Grigas PhD, CEO OneGo Inc. Author of “The Politics of Energy and Memory between the Baltic States and Russia” The USA

Gas – the last frontier in the bilateral relations between the Baltic States and Russia

185

1/2013 Reinis Āboltiņš Researcher Centre for Public Policy PROVIDUS Latvia

A game of power – the Baltic States and energy security

1/2013 Mikhail Krutikhin Partner, Analyst RusEnergy independent consultancy Russia

Gas and oil reserves in Russian Arctic seas remain out of reach to all but two state-run giants

1/2013 Maria L. Lagutina PhD, Senior Lecturer World Politics Department School of International Relations St. Petersburg State University Russia

Nord Stream pipeline – an energy dialogue or deadlock?

1/2013 Tomas Malmlöf Scientist Department for Security Policy & Strategic Studies Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) Sweden

Interpretations of energy security in the Baltic Sea region

1/2013 Satu Viljainen

Olga Gore

Mari Makkonen

Professor (Electricity markets)

M.Sc., Researcher

M.Sc., Researcher

Lappeenranta University of Technology Finland

Russian electricity market reform – deregulation or re-regulation?

1/2013 Eero Vanaale Consultant Drewry Shipping Consultants The UK

The Baltic Sea ports – resonance of trends in the container shipping

1/2013 Tuomas Kiiski Doctoral student Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

The Northern Sea Route – a viable alternative to Suez Canal Route as a liner shipping route?

1/2013 Viacheslav M. Shavshukov

Doctor of Economics, Professor St. Petersburg State University Russia

Immediate tasks for G20, regional associations and international economic organizations

1/2013 Ilmari Larjavaara Dr.Soc.Sc, BBA Adviser EUROFACTS Ltd. Finland

“Clash of civilizations” in the Finnish-Russian relations?

1/2013 Vladimir G. Sherov-Ignatyev

Associate Professor World Economy Department St. Petersburg State University Russia

Eurasian integration – a positive view

1/2013 Elina Kahla PhD, Director The Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg

Finnish window in St.Petersburg – beyond its size?

186

1/2013 Inari Helle

Sakari Kuikka

Researcher

Professor

Fisheries and Environmental Management Group (FEM) Department of Environmental Sciences University of Helsinki Finland

The challenge of keeping the Gulf of Finland clean from oil – what should we do?

1/2013 Kari Hyytiäinen Principal Research Scientist MTT Agrifood Research Finland

Does it pay to combat eutrophication in the Baltic Sea?

1/2013 Vanessa Ryan Marine Conservation Officer WWF Finland Finland

Oil transportation in the Baltic Sea – environmental impacts and future challenges for maritime transport

1/2013 Markku Kotilainen Dr., Research Director Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) Finland

What explains foreign direct investment in the Baltic Sea Region?

1/2013 Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen

Professor of Sociology Stockholm Centre on Health of Societies in Transition (SCOHOST) School of Social Sciences Södertörn University Sweden

The East is – empty

1/2013 Ruslanas Iržikevičius

Editor-in-Chief The Lithuania Tribune

Director BaltoScandia Media Lithuania

Lithuania's Berlusconi – the Viktor Uspaskich phenomenon in Lithuania

1/2013 Jordan Gans-Morse Assistant Professor Political Science Northwestern University The USA

Evolving threats to property rights in Russia

1/2013 Sergey Balandin President FRUCT Oy Finland

FRUCT – Academia-to-industry cooperation engine and incubator of new competences and businesses

1/2013 Julija Bendikienė Deputy Director Marine Science and Technology Centre Klaipėda University Lithuania

The marine valley in Klaipėda – for development of Lithuanian maritime sector

1/2013 Irina Ledchenkova Head of Project Office International Cooperation Centre Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (YKSUG) Belarus

The Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (YKSUG) and its international projects in the Baltic Sea region (BSR)

187

1/2013 Karri Kiiskinen PhD student European ethnology University of Turku Finland

Borders to define a Baltic Sea region

6/2012 Mikhail V. Myasnikovich

Prime Minister The Republic of Belarus Professor, Doctor in Economics and Associate Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

Belarus – joining Europe and Eurasia together (Integration of Integrations concept)

6/2012 Pekka Salminen and Hannamaria Yliruusi

Project Manager Project Manager Union of the Baltic Cities Commission on Environment Finland

Direct investments in city-to-city cooperation between Belarus and EU

6/2012 Artis Pabriks Dr., Minister of Defence The Republic of Latvia

Security issues in the Baltic Sea region

6/2012 Petri Sarvamaa Member The European Parliament

Rail Baltica as a stimulant to Baltic economies

6/2012 Jessica Polfjärd Member of Parliament Moderate Party Chair Committee on industry and trade Sweden

Nordic competitiveness in trade and commerce – a strong and secure future established by growth

6/2012 Franz Thönnes MP, former Parliamentary State Secretary Deutscher Bundestag Member of the BSLF Steering Committee Germany

The Baltic Sea Labour Forum (BSLF) is working

6/2012 Ann-Kristine Johansson

Member of Parliament Chair of the Nordic Council Environment Committee Sweden

A cleaner Baltic Sea – a task for parliamentarians across borders

6/2012 Hannu Himanen Ambassador of Finland to the Russian Federation

The reluctant partner – Russia in WTO

6/2012 Maimo Henriksson Ambassador of Finland to Norway

The dynamic corner of Europe – the High North as a strategic survival strategy for Finland

6/2012 Riho Terras Brigadier General Commander The Estonian Defence Forces Estonia

Security and defense in the Baltic Sea region – what to expect?

6/2012 Stephen Blank Professor Strategic Studies Institute The USA

European and Asian rivalries over the Arctic

6/2012 Timo Rautajoki CEO Lapland Chamber of Commerce Finland

The great future of Murmansk is still based on visions

188

6/2012 Anneli Ahonen Finnish journalist based in St. Petersburg Times are changing for the Northern Russian town of Pechenga

6/2012 Martti Hahl President Barents Center Finland Finland

The bridge over troubled waters of North West Russia

6/2012 Philip Lowe Director-General DG ENERGY European Comission

Baltic energy infrastructure – from isolation towards integration

6/2012 Torstein Indrebø Secretary General International Gas Union, IGU

Natural Gas, LNG and the Baltic Sea

6/2012 Esa Härmälä Director General Energy Department Ministry of Employment and the Economy Finland

Europe needs energy investments

6/2012 Rokas Masiulis CEO Klaipėdos Nafta AB Lithuania

LNG terminal in Lithuania – a small solution to a very large problem

6/2012 Monika Rozmarynowska

Assistant Department of Transport and Logistics Gdynia Maritime University Poland

LNG import terminals in Baltic Sea Region – review of current projects

6/2012 Juha Kettunen Rector Turku University of Applied Sciences Finland

Environment projects in the Central Baltic Programme

6/2012 Markus Granlund Director, Professor Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Responsible university education of business and economics in the BRE

6/2012 Janis Stonis Administrative Director University of Latvia Latvia

Link in the Baltic Sea region chain

6/2012 Ari Niemi Editorial Writer Turun Sanomat, Daily Newspaper Finland

Child welfare with a double-headed eagle as a partner

6/2012 Hannele Pokka Permanent Secretary Ministry of the Environment Finland

Why Gulf of Finland Year 2014?

6/2012 Kari Häkämies Director-General Regional State Administrative Agency for Southwestern Finland Finland

Integration of the Baltic Sea labour market

6/2012 Stefan Herms Director General Department International and European Affairs

Senate Chancellery Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Germany

Cooperation between Hamburg and other partners in the Baltic Sea region

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6/2012 Heikki Pälve CEO Finnish Medical Association Finland

Patient mobility in the Baltic region

6/2012 Jussi Järventaus Managing Director Federation of Finnish Enterprises Finland

Entrepreneurship as a source of growth and competitiveness in the Baltic Sea Region

6/2012 Hans Skov Christensen

Chairman Baltic Development Forum Denmark

The almost forgotten digital single market

6/2012 Thomas Steger University of Regensburg Editor-in-chief Journal for East European Management Studies Germany

Management research on Central and Eastern Europe

6/2012 Pauls Raudseps Commentator Weekly magazine Ir Latvia

Latvia and the euro – a date with destiny

6/2012 Hiski Haukkala Professor of International Relations University of Tampere Finland

The Baltic Sea region needs more mutual trust

6/2012 Christian Ramberg Managing Director Port of Turku Finland

Port of Turku takes strongly part in LNG projects

6/2012 Ulrich Bauermeister Dr., Managing Director Rostock Port Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock mbH Germany

Port of Rosrock – serving the Baltic Sea

6/2012 Jaakko Tikka CEO Forum Marinum Foundation Finland

Maritime memories, history and experiences at the same place

6/2012 Julian Cooper Professor of Russian Economic Studies Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham The United Kingdom

Eurasian Economic Integration – different this time?

6/2012 Irina V. Starodubrovskaya

Department Director Political economy and regional development Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Russia

Do Russian innovators need creative cities?

6/2012 Marko Torkkeli Professor of Technology and Business Innovations Faculty of Technology Management LappeenrantaUniversity of Technology

Director of Publications at International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) Finland

Innovation in and for Russian markets

190

6/2012 Anni Kangas Academy of Finland Post-Doctoral Research Fellow School of Management (International Relations) University of Tampere Finland

Neoliberalism meets economic nationalism – the Skolkovo innograd

6/2012 Teemu Makkonen Postdoctoral Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

The geography of innovation in the Baltic Sea region

6/2012 Alexander Dynkin Professor, Director IMEMO, Institute of World Economy and International Relations Russia

Russia and WTO – challenges after accession

6/2012 Grigory Dudarev Partner Evli Bank Plc Finland

Russia as an investment destination – the recent accession of Russia to WTO and its impact on the investment in Russia

6/2012 Lilia Shevtsova Senior Associate Moscow Carnegie Centre Russia

Associate Fellow Russia and Eurasia Program The Chatham House The United Kingdom

Russia – is there a way out of the dead end?

6/2012 Tommi Lappalainen Major, Lecturer Department of Strategic and Defence Studies National Defence University Finland

Russia increasing its military expenditure

6/2012 Irina Novikova Professor, Dean School of International Relations Saint-Petersburg State University Russia

Russia’s WTO entry – consequences for higher education

6/2012 Jari Jumpponen Head of rep. office East Office of Finnish Industries Advisor to Co-Chairman of the NDBC

How to get more boost to the Northern Dimension?

6/2012 Katja Novikova

Maija Kuiri

Director for Russian Affairs

Project Manager

Lappeenranta University of Technology Finland

Russian higher education reform – designed to approach world top universities

6/2012 Sean P. Roberts Dr, Researcher The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Party-system reform in Russia

191

6/2012 Roger Roffey Senior Scientist Division of Defence Analysis The Swedish Defence Research Agency FOI Sweden

Russia and migration in the light of the demographic crises

6/2012 Roland Gustbée President Euroregion Baltic

Euroregion Baltic – tool to tackle common challenges in the South Baltic area

6/2012 Torben Dall Schmidt

Professor in Regional Economics Department of Border Region Studies University of Southern Denmark Denmark

Borders and foreign labor – the importance of foreign labor at the Danish-German land border

6/2012 Robert Hall Head of Baltic Sea Unit Swedish Institute Sweden

The Swedish Institute’s role in Baltic Sea cooperation

6/2012 Kristi Raik Researcher Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Estonia and Finland diverge over Europe, but cherish Nordic-Baltic ties

6/2012 Anna Zasova Research Fellow Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies Latvia

Slow recovery of Latvian labour market – shaped by lack of demand, not by labour market institutions

6/2012 Jessica Ålgars-Åkerholm

Communications Manager Regional Council of Southwest Finland

What is the WOW of your region?

6/2012 Sari Ruusumo Convention Director City of Turku Turku Touring Southwest Finland Tourist and Convention Bureau Finland

Important meetings and passion since 1229

6/2012 Mika Kallioinen Lecturer of Finnish History University of Turku Finland

The Hanseatic League – past and present

6/2012 Anna Karhu Doctoral Student Department of Marketing and International Business Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Pharmaceutical retail as a part of healthcare provision in the future

5/2012 Eini Laaksonen Project Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Introduction to SmartComp – Smart Competitiveness for the Central Baltic region

5/2012 René Sirol Capt., Deputy Director General, Head of Maritime Safety Division Estonian Maritime Administration

Factors for safer shipping in the Baltic Sea

192

5/2012 Karl-Heinz Breitzmann

Prof., Dr Managing Director Baltic Institute of Marketing, Transport and Tourism at the University of Rostock Germany

Baltic maritime transport – tense relationship between logistics and environmental regulations

5/2012 Pentti Kujala Professor Department of Applied Mechanics School of Engineering Aalto University Finland

Increasing marine traffic challenges the Baltic Sea

5/2012 Monika Stankiewicz

Executive Secretary HELCOM (Baltic Sea Marine Environment Protection Commission)

Marine nature does not have an owner – reflections on the future of the Baltic maritime sector

5/2012 Jerzy Hajduk PhD, Master Mariner, Professor Dean of Navigation Faculty Maritime University of Szczecin Poland

The future of vessel traffic safety in the Baltic Sea

5/2012 Robert Aps Dr, Head of Marine Systems Department Estonian Marine Institute University of Tartu Estonia

Sea transportation of oil in the Baltic Sea – enhancing safety and security

5/2012 Juhani Talvela Lic.tech, Research Director Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences Finland

Enhancing logistics competitiveness on a regional scale

5/2012 Rima Mickeviciene Dr, Assoc. Professor in Marine Engineering, Dean Faculty of Marine Engineering Klaipeda University Lithuania

Maritime technology industry – to fit for the green future

5/2012 Elisa Holma Researcher Centre for Maritime Studies University of Turku Finland

Baltic Sea cargo volumes at their highest in 2011

5/2012 Eva Branten and Alari Purju

Research Associate Professor of Public Economics Department of Public Economics Tallinn University of TechnologY Estonia

Recent developments in the Estonian maritime cluster

5/2012 Hanna Mäkinen Project Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

The current state and future of the Finnish maritime cluster

5/2012 Ulla Tapaninen Ph.D., Expert in International Logistics City of Helsinki Finland

Finnish foreign trade will find new transport routes

193

5/2012 Mervi Pitkänen

Juha Valtanen

Programme Director

Programme Manager

Machine Technology Center Maritime Cluster Programme Finland

Finnish maritime industry – innovating the future

5/2012 Jukka Seppänen

Mirva Salokorpi

Project Manager of CAFE project

Research Manager of maritime and logistics

Kymenlaakso University of Applied Science Finland

EU-project develops skills and increases safety capital of maritime domain

5/2012 Lan Le Nina Luostarinen Timo Parkkola

Project Producer Kaleidoskooppi Project Planner TKI-HUMAK Meri RDI Manager TKI-HUMAK Meri Finland

Uncharted waters

4/2012 László Andor Commissioner European Commission

Employment and social development in the EU and in particular in the Baltic Sea region

4/2012 Edgars Rinkēvičs Minister of Foreign Affairs Latvia

Why Eastern Partnership still matters?

4/2012 Edit Herczog Member of the European Parliament East-West pipelines – integrating Europe

4/2012

Marjo Matikainen-Kallström

DI, eMBA, Member of Parliament Parliament of Finland

Chairperson Finnish Karelian League Finland

Controversial real estate ownership

4/2012 Christel Happach-Kasan

Dr. MP Chairwoman of the German-Baltic Friendship Group The German Bundestag

A view on the German Presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States

4/2012 Mikaela Nylander Member of Parliament Parliament of Finland

Minorities around the Baltic Sea

4/2012 Kimmo Tiilikainen Chairman The Finnish Centre Party Parliamentary Group

Member of Parliament Parliament of Finland

Building sustainable growth in the Baltic Sea region

4/2012 Walter Deffaa Director-General Regional Policy DG European Commission

The EU strategy for the Baltic Sea region – the next phase of the strategy

194

4/2012 Pauliina Haijanen Member of the Committee of The Regions Member of the Board of The Regional Council of Southwest Finland

Updated European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea region

4/2012 Jukka-Pekka Ujula Mayor City of Porvoo Finland

The City of Porvoo in Baltic area cooperation

4/2012 Ricardo Carvalho Bruno Ferreira

Policy Officer European Commission – DG Education and Culture

University business cooperation in education

4/2012 Philipp Schwartz Dr., Head of the Joint Technical Secretariat Central Baltic INTERREG IV A Programme 2007-2013

Use the “today” to shape the “tomorrow” or the impact of 2007– 2013 on 2014 – 2020

4/2012 Gabriel Alvarez Communication Officer INTERACT Point Turku Finland

Territorial cooperation in the Baltic Sea region and the supportive role of INTERACT Point Turku

4/2012 Kai Paananen CEO SET Petrochemicals Oy / SET Group Finland

Oil spill risks can be reduced through concrete cooperation

4/2012 Olli-Pekka Brunila Researcher University of Turku Centre for Maritime Studies Maritime Logistics Research Unit in Kotka Finland

Development of oil transportation in the Gulf of Finland

4/2012 Anders Åslund Senior Fellow The Peterson Institute for International Economics The USA Author of the book “Russia’s Capitalist Revolution”

Russia’s future reforms

4/2012 Kari Liuhto Professor on the Russian economy Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku Finland

Russia after Putin?

4/2012 Mikhail Dmitriev Svetlana Misikhina

President Center for Strategic Research Russia Director Center of Social Policy of the Institute of the Applied Economic Research The Russian Academy of National Economy and Civil Service Russia

Good-bye, poverty – Russia’s quiet social revolution

4/2012 Vesa Korhonen Senior economist Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT) Finland

Russia’s budget priorities shaped by the leadership, and the outcome by an uneven inflation landscape

195

4/2012 Tom Colbjørnsen President BI Norwegian Business School

BI Norwegian Business School and its activities in the Baltic Sea region

4/2012 Agata Wierzbowska-Miazga

Expert Russian Department Centre for Eastern Studies Poland

The limits of Eurasian integration

4/2012 Filip Hamro-Drotz Senior Advisor Confederation of Finnish Industries EK Finland

The Baltic Sea region and business – a model for European macro regions?

4/2012 Jorma Alanne Executive Vice President Baltic Banking Pohjola Bank plc Finland

Pohjola’s growing interest in the Baltic markets

4/2012 Keijo Koskinen Key Account Manager AEL Finland

Why some companies succeed

4/2012 Janne Tienpää MSc in Geography and Economics Senior Sales Manager S-Group Hotels Finland

Event sourcing: a new approach to destination marketing – case City of Turku, Finland

4/2012 Janne Hirvonen Analyst East Office of Finnish Industries, Helsinki Finland

State-financed investment – the Achilles’ heel of Russia’s rents-addicted economy?

4/2012 Markku Sippola Postdoctoral Researcher Karelian Institute University of Eastern Finland

The impact of investment climate on the ease of investment: a comparison between Russia and the Baltic States

4/2012 Martin Hurt Member of the Executive Board International Centre for Defence Studies Estonia

Nordic-Baltic defence cooperation: opportunities and challenges

4/2012 Jonas Grätz M.A., Researcher Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich Switzerland

Unconventional resources and energy security in the Baltic Sea region

196

4/2012 Mikhail Grigoryev Co-owner and Director Consultation Centre GECON

Expert Scientific Council of Security Council of the Russian Federation

Member Coordination Council on Cross-Border and Interregional Cooperation under the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation to the Northwest Federal District

Chairman Expert Group concerning Development of Mineral Resources and Development of Transport System in Arctic Regions The Russian Federation

Euro-Arctic cross-border cooperation for development of the Russian Arctic offshore oil & gas reserves

4/2012 Eva Hjälmered Head of Secretariat UBC Energy Commission Union of Baltic Cities

The ”small” actors are the major actors

4/2012 Eugenijus Uspuras

Vaclovas Miskinis

Director

Head

Laboratory of Energy Systems Research Lithuanian Energy Institute

Energy infrastructure projects in Lithuania

4/2012 Frederic Hauge President The Bellona Foundation Norway

Plans for Baltic nuclear power plant financially unviable and ecologically hazardous

4/2012 Marijuš Antonovič MA in International Relations and Diplomacy Vilnius University Lithuania

The political project of the Baltic nuclear power plant

4/2012 Bo Österlund Commodore (One Star Admiral, retired) Finland

A drastic change to be expected in the energy map of the Baltic region

4/2012 Vitaliy V. Yermakov

Director, Russian and Caspian Energy IHS CERA Russia

Cold February of 2012 – European gas system passes test, but questions remain

4/2012 Kari Liuhto Professor Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku

Director Centrum Balticum Finland

The revolution of gas logistics in the Baltic Sea region?

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4/2012

Olli-Pekka Hilmola Eugene Korovyakovsky

Professor Department of Industrial Management, Kouvola Unit Lappeenranta University of Technology Finland Head of Department Department of Logistics and Commercial Operations St. Petersburg State Transport University Russia

Russian railway sector transformation – opportunity for larger Europe

4/2012 Vladas Sturys Consultant, Researcher in transport and logistics

Director Baltic R&D Centre Lithuania

Baltic transport research agenda – a strong demand

4/2012 Ilya Shegelman

Pavel Shchukin

Administration Counselor, PhD, Professor

Head of Innovation Projects and Innovative Infrastructure Developing Department, PhD

Petrozavodsk State University Russia

Environmentally safe transportation and packaging unit for transportation and storage of spent nuclear fuel

4/2012 Egon G. Nordström PhD, Docent Åbo Akademi University Senior Officer Ministry of Environment Finland

Sustainable water management in the Baltic Sea region and the Kingisepp phosphorus case

4/2012 Anna Korppoo Postdoctoral Researcher of the Academy of Finland Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku Finland

Senior Research Fellow Fridtjof Nansen Institute Norway

What next in Russia’s climate policy?

4/2012 Tuomas Räsänen PhD Student Department of General History University of Turku Finland

Environmental lessons from the past

4/2012 Vera Barinova Head of Innovation Economy Department Center for Real Sector Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Russia

Fostering innovation in Russia – time to set priorities

4/2012 Virpi Herranen Director FinNode Russia

Finland and Russia – how good partners may contribute in developing innovations

198

4/2012 Liliana Proskuryakova

Researcher Laboratory for S&T Studies National Research University “Higher School of Economics” Russia

Science and innovation policy of the new Russian cabinet

4/2012 Natalya Volchkova Professor New Economic School Russia

Russia – an unattainable goal of diversification

4/2012 Triin Kask CEO BluNavi Estonia

The real challenges of start-ups who want to make people’s lives better

4/2012 Dovile Jakniunaite Associated Professor Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilnius University Lithuania

Baltic States – three states, but no region

4/2012 Ralph Tuchtenhagen Professor, Dr. Chair of Cultural Studies Deputy Head Department of North European Studies Humboldt University, Berlin German

The Baltic Sea Dimension at the Department of North European Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

4/2012

Tatjana Muravska

Roswitha King

Jean Monnet Professor Director Centre for European and Transition Studies University of Latvia

Associate Professor of Economics University of Latvia Ostfold University College Norway

Peripheral regional universities – what role within the Baltic Regional Forum?

4/2012

Markku Jokisipilä

Tarja Hyppönen

Academic Director University of Turku

Coordinator University of Turku

BSRS – making sense of regional realities for 15 years

4/2012 Elżbieta Fonberg-Stokłuska

Head of International Centre Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) Poland

The Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) and its collaboration within the Baltic Sea region (BSR)

4/2012 Tiina Tervaniemi Project Manager Best practices in the Baltic Sea Area Regional Council of Pohjois-Savo Finland

Knowledge, networks and regional growth through best practices within the Baltic Sea region

4/2012 Regina Karvelienė Director The Department of International Programmes and Relations Šiauliai University Lithuania

Internationalisation process in high education – a practise of Šiauliai University

199

4/2012 Alyson JK Bailes Adjunct Professor Faculty of Political Science University of Iceland Visiting Professor at the College of Europe

Iceland facing the Artic – Baltic lessons?

4/2012 Aleksandra Kuźmińska-Haberla Marcin Haberla

Ph.D., Lecturer Department of International Economic Relations Ph.D., Lecturer Department of Marketing Research Wroclaw University of Economics Poland

EURO 2012 in Poland – was it worth it?

4/2012 Pauli Heikkilä Research Fellow University of Tartu Estonia

Paneuropean and Baltic Estonian Diplomat

3/2012 Ilkka Räisänen Lic.Sc.(Econ) Minister Counsellor Head of Liaison Office of the Embassy of Finland

How Belarus could gain of the Eurasian economic integration and of the WTO membership?*

3/2012 David R. Marples Distinguished University Professor University of Alberta Canada

Belarus – back to mother Russia?

3/2012 Alexander Brakel Country Representative Belarus Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

The “ambassador war” – lessons learned from a recent episode in European–Belarusian relations

3/2012 Sergey A. Kizima Head of Department of International Relations Academy of Public Administration Belarus

Lost chances of the EU for cooperation with Belarus

3/2012 Kataryna Wolczuk PhD Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham UK

The EU strategy on Belarus – in need of ‘smart pragmatism’

3/2012 Anaïs Marin Researcher The Finnish Institute of International Affairs (Helsinki) Finland

EU–Belarus relations – which way out of the vicious circle?

3/2012 Torbjörn Becker Director Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) Stockholm School of Economics Sweden

Belarus – expect no free lunches

3/2012 Alexander Chubrik Director of the IPM Research Centre CASE Fellow Belarus

Belarusian economy after the balance of payments crisis – time to change the model

200

3/2012 Kateryna Bornukova

Research fellow Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC) Ukraine

Currency crisis in Belarus – social impact and redistributive effects

3/2012 Irina Yeremeyeva PhD, Associate Professor Belarusian State Economic University Belarus

Budget deficit in Belarus, ways of reducing

3/2012 Olga Malashenkova PhD, Associate Professor Department of International Economic Relations of the Belarusian State University Belarus

The consolidated budget of the Republic of Belarus

3/2012 Andrei Rusakovich Chairman of the Board Public Association «Foreign Policy and Security Research Center» Belarus

Investment advantages of the Republic of Belarus in connection with its participation in the Eurasian integration

3/2012 Helen Semak PhD, Associate Professor Department of International Economic Relations of the Belarusian State University Belarus

Russian investments in the economy of the Republic of Belarus

3/2012 Pavel Shvedko Senior researcher Institute of Economics National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

Belarusian–Chinese trade and economic cooperation

3/2012 Aleksandra Hiachai PhD, Associate Professor Department of International Economic Relations of the Belarusian State University

Energy sector of the Republic of Belarus

3/2012 Hanna Smith Researcher Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Belarus at a crossroads

3/2012 Kamil Klysinski Specialist in Belarusian Affairs Department for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW)Poland

The paradoxes of Alyaksandr Lukashenka’s foreign policy

3/2012 Matthew Frear Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham UK

Opposition strategies for the 2012 elections in Belarus

3/2012 Anna Maria Dyner Specialist in Eastern European affairs Polish Institute of International Affairs Poland

The future of Belarus

3/2012 Grigory Ioffe Professor Department of Geospatial Science Radford University The United States

Belarusian identity

201

3/2012 Jovita Neliupšienė Lecturer Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilnius University Lithuania

Belarus – stuck between the nation and state building processes

3/2012 Per A. Rudling Postdoctoral research fellow Department of History Lund University Sweden

Nationalism in modern Belarus

3/2012 Jussi Seppälä Chairman Finland-Belarus Society Finland

Belarus in our minds – a point of view from the level of the civil society

2/2012 Pascal Lamy Director-General World Trade Organization

WTO membership will change Russia

2/2012 Tunne Kelam Member The European Parliament The Chairman of the Baltic Europe Intergroup The European Parliament

Challenges for the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

2/2012 Gunnar Hökmark Member The European Parliament

The Baltics can move Europe ahead

2/2012 Morten Løkkegaard Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Vice-chair of the Education and Culture Committee (Denmark, the ALDE group)

The Baltic Pioneer

2/2012 Joanna Mucha Dr., Minister of Sport and Tourism Ministry of Sport and Tourism The Republic of Poland

What can Poland gain from hosting Euro 2012?

2/2012 Egemen Bagis Minister for European Union Affairs and Chief Negotiator Turkey

Turkey as a key to Europe's energy diversification

2/2012 Pirkko Mattila Member of Parliament Muhos, Finland

Turning global into local – distributed bio-based energy production

2/2012 Vladimir Drazhin Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus in Lithuania and Finland

Development of economic ties of Belarus and EU in the light of relations with Lithuania and Finland

2/2012 Andres Lipstok Governor of Eesti Pank Member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank Estonia

Changeover to the Euro – the Estonian experience

2/2012 Minna Arve Chairman City Board of Turku Finland

Turku – connecting Baltic Cities

2/2012 Monika Stankiewicz

Executive Secretary Helsinki Commission Finland

Setting the goals, measuring the progress – HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan

202

2/2012 Tellervo Kylä-Harakka-Ruonala

Director, Business Infrastructure Confederation of Finnish Industries EK Finland

The Baltic Sea transport corridor – changes ahead?

2/2012 Kari Liuhto Editor-in-Chief Baltic Rim Economies review Director Pan-European Institute Director Centrum Balticum Professor on the Russian Economy Turku School of Economics at the University of Turku Finland

One thousand and one articles on the Baltic Rim Economies

2/2012 Leszek Jesień Dr., Lecturer Collegium Civitas University Warsaw, Poland

Change the Euro pattern and strategy

2/2012 Leonid Grigoryev Anna Chaplygina

Professor, Chair of World economy HSE, Moscow Russia Ph.D (Econ.), Consultant to the World Bank and the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Russia

Russia – at the door of WTO

2/2012 Sergei F. Sutyrin Professor, Head World Economy Department St.Petersburg State University The WTO Chair Holder Russia

Russian way to the World Trade Organization (WTO) – why did it take so long?

2/2012 Karina Pētersone Director Latvian Institute Latvia

Where to look for the Baltic Sea region identity?

2/2012 Richard Connolly Dr., Lecturer in Political Economy Centre for Russian and East European Studies School of Government and Society University of Birmingham The United Kingdom

The development of the nanotechnology industry in Russia

2/2012 Mikko Kaarela Pekka Koponen

Senior Consultant Spinverse Ltd. Finland CEO Spinverse Ltd. Finland

Commercialization as the bridge from Russian science to prosperity

203

2/2012 Olga Garanina Ph. D., Associate Prof. Head of the Center for Energy Policy Research and Training St Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance Russia

Energy security, oil prices and modernization in Russia

2/2012 Alexander Ghaleb Energy security Ph.D. student Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy Central European University Hungary

Bribe Europe’s center, divide the Euro-Atlantic Alliance, and rule the periphery – Putin’s grand strategy for a strong Russia

2/2012

Marek Maciejowski

Silvija Juscenko

Head of the NDPHS Secretariat

Senior Adviser NDPHS Secretariat

NDPHS urges for more health on the regional agenda

2/2012 Meelis Mandel Editor-in-Chief The Estonian business daily Äripäev Estonia

Feared loan – unused opportunity for Estonia

2/2012 Epp Lauk Professor of Journalism Department of Communication University of Jyväskylä Finland

What is happening to (foreign) ownership in the Baltic media markets?

2/2012 Konstantin von Eggert

MBE, Commentator and Host Kommersant FM radio in Moscow Russia

For Putin and Russia the moment of truth approaching fast

2/2012 Konstantin Sonin SUEK Professor of Economics and Vice Rector New Economic School Russia

Russia 2012 – is the glass half full or half empty?

2/2012 Gabriele Kötschau Dr., Deputy Managing Director Hamburg Chamber of Commerce Head of the representation in St. Petersburg Germany / Russia

Hamburg and St. Petersburg – two metropolises in the Baltic Sea region

2/2012 Niko Kyynäräinen Business Development Director City of Turku Finland

Turku Region – for future success

2/2012 Stephan Stein Dr., Head of the representative office of the Chamber of Commerce of Hamburg in Kaliningrad Head of the board of the Association of Foreign Investors in Kaliningrad Member of the board of the Baltic Sea Forum, Pro Baltica Germany / Russia

Rise, fall and resurgence of the Special Economic Zone of Kaliningrad/Russia

2/2012 Marko Joas Professor in Public Administration Prefekt (Dean) Department of Political Sciences Åbo Akademi University Finland

Baltic Sea region networking – the road ahead?

204

2/2012 Anu Keltaniemi Project Manager c/o Union of the Baltic Cities Environmental and City Planning Department Environmental Protection Office Turku, Finland

New opportunities for the Central Baltic maritime cluster through SmartComp project

2/2012 Alexander Sergunin Professor of International Relations St. Petersburg State University Russia

Russia’s Baltic policy – new horizons?

2/2012 Lidia Puka Researcher The Polish Institute of International Affairs Poland

Energy policy of Norway and its implications for the Baltic Sea region

2/2012 Maritta Hiltunen Ain Hinsberg

Project Manager Turku Touring Finland Member of Innovative Marketing WP and Follow-up Task Force Head of R&D Unit Estonian School of Hotel and Tourism Management EHTE Estonia

Cultural tourism 2011 – reaching beyond capitals of culture and cultural tourism in the Baltic Sea region

2/2012 Christian Krötzl Professor of History School of Social Sciences and Humanities University of Tampere Finland

Networks across the Baltic – back to history?

2/2012 Jens E. Olesen Professor, Dr. Chair of Scandinavian and Finnish History University of Greifswald Germany

History of the Baltic Sea region

2/2012 Kari Alenius Associate Professor University of Oulu Finland

The Second World War as a problem between the Baltic countries and Russia

2/2012 Kristian Gerner Professor of History (Emeritus) Lund University Sweden

The Baltic States – an imagined community turned real

2/2012 Ainars Lerhis Dr. (Hist.), Chairman of the Board Centre for East European Policy Studies Latvia

Latvia and the U.S. – potential for strengthening energy security

2/2012 Christer K. Lindholm

Researcher in Economics The Åbo Akademi School of Business and Economics Finland

Does austerity work? Lessons from the Latvian crisis in 2008–2010

2/2012 Tiina Ritvala Dr., Researcher, Program Director Department of Management and International Business School of Economics Aalto University Finland

The Baltic Sea and the quest for authentic leadership

205

2/2012 Petri Kahila Dr., Docent Senior Research Fellow Nordregio

Quality of life in urban-rural interference

2/2012 Panu Kalmi Andro Roos

Professor of Economics University of Vaasa Finland Chairman of Management Board Tartu Credit Union Researcher University of Tartu Estonia

The development and potential of financial co-operatives in Estonia

2/2012 Luis Felipe Mohando Toomas Prangli

Associate Regional Knowledge Management Lawyer SORAINEN Estonia Partner Regional Head of the M&A and Private Equity Team SORAINEN Estonia

Baltic M&A studies suggest trends for the future

2/2012 Mekhail Mustak Doctoral Researcher Turku School of Economics Finland

When the focus is on international students, Finland can do better!

1/2012 Günther Oettinger EU Energy Commissioner European Commission

Europe's energy future is in gas and in Central Asia

1/2012 Gediminas Kazlauskas

Minister Ministry of Environment Lithuania

The Baltic Sea protection – a challenge for Lithuania and for the whole Baltic Sea region

1/2012 Lambert van Nistelrooij

Member of the European Parliament Joint efforts in the Baltic Sea Strategy

1/2012 Alexander Graf Lambsdorff

German Liberal Party Member of the European Parliament Vice President of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)

EU-Ukraine relations – a decisive year ahead

1/2012 Vladimir Chizhov Ambassador Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the European Union

The Russia-EU Partnership for Modernisation

1/2012 Juris Bone Ambassador of Latvia to Finland From Baltic Tiger to Baltic Phoenix

1/2012 Jussi Huttunen Region Mayor Regional Council of Pohjois-Savo Finland

Mobilising the regional assets through joint efforts – Pohjois-Savo looks at the Baltic Sea region in cooperation

1/2012 Nikolay Tsukanov Governor The Kaliningrad region The Russian Federation

Energy deficit of Kaliningrad region is passing

206

1/2012 Jan Owe-Larsson President East Sweden Region Sweden

Territorial cooperation – an asset for East Sweden and the Baltic Sea region

1/2012 Pekka Myllymäki 2nd Deputy Chairman of the Managing Board The Regional Council of Southwest Finland Chairman of the Municipal Council of Mynämäki Finland

Rural Mynämäki community on the way to competitiveness, employment and safe energy supply

1/2012 Akko Karlsson Vice chairman Kalmar Regional Council Member of ERB Sweden

Territorial review and regional development in the Baltic area

1/2012 Slava Khodko Vice-President, Chairman of the Executive Committee Association North-West Russia

Cooperation development in the Baltic Sea region

1/2012 Boedker Andersen President Union of the Baltic Cities, UBC

Union of the Baltic Cities 20 years – inspired by the past, heading for the future

1/2012 Jyrki Myllyvirta Mayor The City of Lahti Finland

The power of two metropoles

1/2012 Mikael Pentikäinen Editor-in-Chief The Helsingin Sanomat Finland

Water flows down from Russia’s mountains

1/2012 Börje Svanborg Vice President, Regional Cooperation Invest Sweden Sweden

Cooperation within Baltic Sea region (BSR)

1/2012 Kaisa Kononen Dr., Executive Director BONUS Finland

Towards the Rio+20 in the Baltic Sea region

1/2012 Allan Alaküla Head Tallinn European Union Office Estonia

BSR deserves a communication strategy

1/2012 Anna Saarentaus Senior Consultant Pöyry Management Consulting Oy Finland

Communication is the key – towards a successful network

1/2012 Alain Roggeri Former Head of Unit Estonia, Finland and Latvia D.G. REGIO European Commission

EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region – from good intentions to effective implementation and results

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1/2012 Ellinor Ivarsson

Tommy Holm

Fredrik Gunnarsson

Expert - cohesion policy

Expert - cohesion policy

Expert - cohesion policy

Growth and Community Development Division Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions Sweden

The municipal authorities and the Baltic Sea Strategy – conditions for greater local involvement

1/2012 Colin Wolfe

Malgorzata Pekala

Head of Unit

Programme Assistant

DG Regional Policy European Commission

The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region – "business as usual" in the EU?

1/2012 Janne Jõesaar-Ruusalu

National Contact Point of the Baltic Sea Strategy Ministry of Foreign Affairs Estonia

The European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region – where do we stand today?

1/2012 Rikard Bengtsson Associate Professor, Department of Political Science Deputy Director, Centre for European Studies Lund University Sweden

The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region in 2012 – implementation challenges

1/2012 Eeva Rantama PhD, Project Team Leader Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013 Joint Technical Secretariat Germany

The EU Baltic Sea Region Programme as major start-up support to the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

1/2012 Gunnel Gustafsson Professor and Director NordForsk

Research collaboration – a way to turn grand challenges into opportunities

1/2012 Levan Mindeli Professor Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science Director of Institute for the Study of Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

The role of science in Russia's modernisation

1/2012 Jan Widberg Head of Secretariat Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, BSPC

Multi-dimensional challenges and governance in the Baltic Sea region

1/2012 Janne Tamminen Executive Secretary CPMR Baltic Sea Commission

CPMR Baltic Sea Commission as a developer of the Baltic Sea Area

1/2012 Jaakko Henttonen NDEP Manager EBRD Regional Office St Petersburg Russia

NDEP – a partnership delivering concrete results for the Baltic and Barents Seas

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1/2012 Bernd Henningsen Professor, Dr. Nordeuropa-Institut Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Germany

Germany and the Baltic Sea region

1/2012 Gunnar Lassinantti Member of the board The Swedish OSCE-network Sweden

Baltic Sea region cooperation at a crossroad

1/2012 Bjarke W. Bøtcher Chief Adviser Danish Maritime Authority Priority Area Coordinator for maritime safety in the EUSBSR Denmark

Growth in vessel transport necessitates regional cooperation on maritime safety and security

1/2012 Mervi Pitkänen Programme Director The Finnish Maritime Cluster Programme (OSKE) Finland

Baltic Sea region clusters as platforms for a global maritime growth potential

1/2012 Julian Skelnik M.Com., Marketing Director Port of Gdansk Authority SA BPO President, ESPO Vice Chairman Poland

Regional and European determinants in favour of the development of the port of Gdansk

1/2012 Gunnar Prause Professor Wismar Business School / Tallinn University of Technology Germany / Estonia

Air cargo in the Baltic Sea region

1/2012 Jussi Rautsi Counsellor, Spatial Planning Ministry of the Environment Finland

The new EU Territorial Agenda – a Baltic Sea region perspective

1/2012 Tobias Etzold Dr., Researcher Baltic Sea and Northern Europe Studies Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, German Institute for International and Security Affairs Germany

Nordic cooperation – the adaptation process continues

1/2012 Johanna Reiman M.Sc. (Agriculture) and M.Sc. (Economics), Executive Director The Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association - WHO Collaboration Centre of Urban Health and Healthy Cities in the Baltic Region Finland

WHO Healthy Cities promote cross-sectoral work to tackle unhealthy lifestyles

1/2012 Jacob Carstensen Professor Department of Biosciences Aarhus University Denmark

The Baltic Sea below the surface

1/2012 Grazyna Sapota Assistant Professor Maritime Institute in Gdansk Poland

Sustainable Development Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

209

1/2012 Andrzej Jagusiewicz

Ph.D., Chief Inspector Environmental Protection Poland

“Three in one”– the recipe to save the Baltic waters and its ecosystems

1/2012 Lotta Nummelin Coordinator for the Baltic Sea Challenge City of Helsinki Environment Centre Finland

The Baltic Sea and cities – the flow goes both ways

1/2012

Andrzej Tubielewicz Marcin Forkiewicz

Professor Gdansk University of Technology Faculty of Management and Economic Poland Professor Assistant Gdansk University of Technology Faculty of Management and Economic Best Agers – GUT team leader Poland

How an age friendly environment can be promoted in the Baltic Sea region

1/2012 Agata Mężyńska Director Economic Information Department Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency Poland

What is there in between competition and competition? – investment promotion in Policy Action Plan for the Marketing of the Baltic Sea Region

1/2012 Daniel de Graaf PhD , SPIN Project Manager Federal Environment Agency Germany

Boosting sustainable production in SMEs in the Baltic Sea region – challenges and solutions identified by the SPIN project

1/2012 Agnieszka Kowalcze

Director Scandinavian-Polish Chamber of Commerce Poland

Why stay in the Baltic Sea region?

1/2012 Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen

Professor in Russian energy policy Aleksanteri Institute / Department of Social Research University of Helsinki Finland

Russia as an environmentally responsible energy superpower?

1/2012 Leonid Karabeshkin PhD, Associate Professor, Acting Dean Faculty of International Relations Euroacademy Estonia

Energy nationalism and cooperation in the Baltic Sea region

1/2012 Jörg Hackmann DAAD Alfred Döblin Professor of East European History Dept. of History and International Relations University of Szczecin Poland

Does history pose an obstacle to Baltic identity?

6/2011 Štefan Füle European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy European Commission

A renewed approach to the Eastern Partnership

6/2011 Konrad Niklewicz Spokesman for the Polish Presidency of the EU Council Poland

Six months of the Polish Presidency

210

6/2011 Andrii Deshchytsia Ambassador Embassy of Ukraine to Finland

Ukraine-EU relations – overview of the recent developments and perspectives for the nearest future

6/2011 Stanisław Koziej Head National Security Bureau Republic of Poland

Towards a new European Security Strategy

6/2011 Beata Wojna PhD, Head of Research Polish Institute of International Affairs Poland

The Polish Presidency and the Eastern Partnership

6/2011 Agnieszka Łada PhD, Head of the European Programme Institute of Public Affairs in Warsaw Poland

Polish EU Council Presidency – efficient presidency in the difficult times

6/2011 Adam Eberhardt Dr., Deputy Director OSW (Centre for Eastern Studies) Poland

Eastern Partnership and Poland’s EU presidency

6/2011 Alex Nice Coordinator Russia and Eurasia Programme Chatham House, London UK

Belarus and the Eastern Partnership in 2011

6/2011 Agnieszka Wójcicka Doctor of Political Science Until 2010 Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań Poland

Guest researcher and scholar of European Economic Area (EEA) & Norway Grants within the Scholarship and Training Fund (STF) at the University of Akureyri in Iceland (Háskólinn á Akureyri) in 2010/2011

The Polish Presidency in the European Union in 2011

6/2011 Rafał Sadowski Senior Analyst The Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) Poland

The Polish EU Presidency and the Eastern Partnership

6/2011 Janusz Wróbel Mayor of Pruszcz Gdański City of Pruszcz Gdański Poland

Together faster and more efficiently

6/2011 Agata Łoskot-Strachota

Energy Policy Analyst OSW (Centre for Eastern Studies) Poland

The European Union’s external energy policy and its relations with its neighbours to the East

6/2011 Adam Łukaszewicz Professor Institute of Archaeology University of Warsaw Poland

Between the Baltic and the Mediterranean

6/2011 Ewa Dziedzic Ph. D., Associate Professor, Chair of Tourism Warsaw School of Economics Poland

Poland as a tourism destination – looking for a place in the market

211

6/2011 Elzbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska

Prof. Dr, Vice Rector for International Co-operation Warsaw School of Economics Poland

Warsaw School of Economics and its international co-operation with Belarus and Ukraine

6/2011 Michael Gonchar President Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI Ukraine

Ukrainian mainstream and dream stream of Russian energy policy

6/2011 Andriy Chubyk Executive Director Centre for Global Studies Strategy XXI Ukraine

South Stream – behind rhetoric

6/2011 Anaïs Marin Researcher Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Belarus – the thwarted partnership

6/2011 Anton Lobach MBA, Researcher National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Belarus

Belarus's energy security

6/2011 Eduard Simchanka Candidate of Economy Independent researcher Belarus

Currency crisis 2011 in Belarus

6/2011 Murman Margvelashvili George Mukhigulishvili

Director of Energy Studies World Experience for Georgia Georgia Researcher in Energy Studies World Experience for Georgia Georgia

Georgia and its role in energy transit towards the West

5/2011 Jose Manuel Barroso

President of the European Commission Bringing EU-Russian relations to a new level

5/2011 Jyrki Katainen Prime Minister Finland

The great potential of the Baltic Sea cooperation

5/2011 Mart Laar Defence Minister Estonian Ministry of Defence Estonia

The new threats to Northern-Europe

5/2011 Diana Wallis Liberal Democrat MEP for Yorkshire & the Humber Vice President of the European Parliament responsible for the Northern Dimension including the Arctic and the High North

The stalemate in Spitsbergen could be used to Norway's advantage

5/2011 Olavi Ala-Nissilä Member of the European Court of Auditors, Dean European Court of Auditors

Challanges for the EU from the perspective of external audit and accountability

5/2011 Petteri Orpo Parliamentary representative National Coalition Party Finland

Our common bond – ties that bind us

5/2011 Matthew Lodge Ambassador British Embassy Finland

A shared vision for promoting sustainable growth

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5/2011 Aleksi Randell Mayor, City of Turku Chairman, Centrum Balticum Foundation Finland

The Turku process – promoting concrete cooperation with Russian partners

5/2011 Henry Lindelöf Mayor City of Kotka Finland

The City of Kotka looks to the East

5/2011 Veli-Jukka Pennala Rear Admiral, Commander Finnish Navy Finland

Maritime situational awareness across borders

5/2011 Detlef Müller Member of Parliament of the Landtag Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Chairman of the Committee on European and Legal Affairs Member of the Committee of the Regions Germany

“Friction generates heat” – tourism, cooperation and the Baltic Sea identification factor

5/2011 Jorma Korhonen Director-General Department of External Economic Relations Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

The Baltic Sea and the Arctic will increase their importance in the energy security for the European Union

5/2011 Suvi Innilä Programme director Turku 2011 Foundation Finland

Positioning Turku on the world map – the city’s year as the European Capital of Culture

5/2011 Arne Grove Director Nordic Council of Ministers Information office Kaliningrad Russia

Role and achievements of the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM) on environment and energy in North-West (NW) Russia, as a part of the Baltic Sea Region

5/2011 Bo Österlund Commodore (retired) Finland

Piracy is a menace to international sea traffic

5/2011 Nina Vaskunlahti Director General Department for Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

Russia and the European Union – a multilayered relationship

5/2011 Sergey Dubinin Chairman of the Supervisory Council JSC VTB Bank Russia

Russian finance system on the waves of global finance crisis

5/2011 Mika Kaukonen CEO VMP Group Finland

Finland needs a strategy for immigration

5/2011 Irinja Paakkanen Head of International Affairs University of Turku Finland

Current trends of internationalisation within the University of Turku

5/2011 Mathias Bergman Ph.D., Doc Secretary General Baltic Sea Action Group/Foundation for a Living Baltic Sea Finland

Not why?, not when? – but how! – innovative solutions for the Baltic Sea

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5/2011

Vicente Carabias Karel Haegeman Alexander Sokolov Manfred Spiesberger Klaus Schuch Irina R. Kuklina

Scientific Officer JRC-IPTS Institute for Prospective Technological Studies European Commission Scientific Officer JRC-IPTS Institute for Prospective Technological Studies European Commission Deputy Institute Director HSE Higher School of Economics Moscow Russia Project Manager & Researcher ZSI Centre for Social Innovation Austria Managing Director ZSI ZSI Centre for Social Innovation Austria Executive Director ICISTE International Centre for Innovations in Science, Technology and Education Russia

Foresight for EU-Russia S&T and innovation cooperation

5/2011 Marina Bouianov Lis.Sc. (Tech.) Development Co-ordinator Business Development, CSC – IT Centre for Science Finland

Some observations on today’s European and Russian innovation process

5/2011 Charles Wessner Director Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship The U.S. National Academies USA

R&D procurement and the role of the SBIR program

5/2011 Ivan Bortnik Professor Chairman FASIE Russia

Innovative entrepreneurships in Russia

5/2011

Nikolai Puntikov Stanislav Tkachenko

President MIT Enterprise Forum of Russia Dr. Director of Diplomatic Studies Programme Saint-Petersburg State University Russia

Does the Russian economic system support technological entrepreneurship?

5/2011 Fredrik Westerlund Senior scientist at the Department for Security Policy & Strategic Studies Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) Sweden

Russian intelligence services can help domestic nanotechnology – by keeping at arm’s length

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5/2011 Andrei G. Zabrodskii

Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Director of the Ioffe Institute Russia

Ioffe Institute and its contribution in the development of nanotechnology in Russia

5/2011 Ruslan Shafiev Doctor of Economics, Professor Moscow (VNIKI) Russia

On innovation activity in Russia

5/2011 Kalman Kalotay Economic Affairs Officer United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

Internationalization of high-tech industries – lessons for the Russian government

5/2011 Adugna Lemi Associate Professor Department of Economics University of Massachusetts Boston USA

Internationalization of R&D – implications for Russia

5/2011 Kari Liuhto Member The Working Group “Transition to Innovation-based Growth” contributing to the 2020 Strategy for the Russian Government

Professor Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Some policy proposals based on the Finnish-Russian innovation collaboration

5/2011 Irina Sarno Kandidat Nauk Russia-team leader project manager The Baltic Institute of Finland Finland

Learning economy in the Baltic Sea region – an experience of the Finnish-Russian cooperation

5/2011 Sergey Tsybukov General Manager LLC SPA on plastic processing named after ‘Komsomolskaya Pravda’ Russia

The "Triple Helix" of the Polymer Cluster

5/2011 Alasdair Reid Director Technopolis Group (Brussels & Tallinn) Belgium & Estonia

Integrating national innovation strategies to leverage the potential of the Baltic Sea region

5/2011 Eero Vuorio Professor, Director Biocenter Finland Finland

Biocenter Finland – a novel way to restructure national research infrastructures

5/2011 Pekka Ihalmo Ph.D. Project Manager HealthBIO Centre of Expertise Culminatum Innovation Ltd Finland

Culminatum works to develop an attractive innovation environment for biotechnology in the BSR

5/2011 Sergey Shishkin Dr. Sc., Professor The National Research University Higher School of Economics Moscow Russia

Modernization of public health care system in Russia

215

5/2011 Simo Mannila Dr, Senior Expert International Affairs, National Institute for Health & Welfare Finland

Future perspectives of Finnish-Russian cooperation in neighbouring areas in the field of social affairs and health

5/2011 Maarit Valo Professor, Department of Communication, University of Jyväskylä Chair of the Finnish Union of University Professors Finland

Technologically-mediated communication in working life – a rich area for both basic and applied research

5/2011 Jorma Nieminen PhD student Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

The emergence in the 1970s of the Nordic mobile phone services and industry – learnings for today

5/2011 Anna Wziątek-Kubiak

Professor Head of Department Institute of Economics Polish Academy of Science Poland

Heterogeneity of innovation strategies of Poland’s firms

5/2011 Marjukka Mäyry Chairperson of the Union of the Finnish-Polish Associations in Finland Finland

Friendship between Finland and Poland

5/2011 Hans Langh Maritime Counsellor, Honorary Honorary Doctorate in Economic Sciences Founder and Managing Director Oy Langh Ship Ab Finland

Maritime transport in winter is necessary for Baltic Sea states

5/2011 Elisa Holma Researcher Centre for Maritime Studies at the University of Turku Finland

Strong recovery in maritime transport volumes stalled with economic uncertainty

5/2011 Vladimir Miklashevsky

Analyst East Office of Finnish Industries Ltd. Helsinki Finland

Real investment in Northwest Russia – Ground Zero for reindustrialization?

5/2011

Kim Wikström Elena Ganskau

Professor at Åbo Akademi University Founder of PBI Research Institute Finland Dr. and Managing Director PBI Research Institute St. Petersburg Russia

Adaptation of business models to local conditions in Russia – five Nordic companies' experience

5/2011 Esa Rautalinko President and CEO Honkarakenne Oyj Finland

Implementing a luxury strategy in Russia

5/2011 Pekka Kuusniemi President and CEO Oras Group Finland

Sanitary ware market differences in the Baltic Sea region

216

5/2011 Nodari Simoniya Full member of Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Russia – facing new challenges on the world gas markets

5/2011 Viesturs Ozolins Export Director Gebwell Ltd Finland

Russia towards energy saving and renewable energy

5/2011

Svetlana Avdasheva Guzel Yusupova

Vice-Director Institute of Industrial and Market Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia Researcher Institute of Industrial and Market Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics Russia

Antitrust cases against Russian oil companies – battle for cheap petrol is under way

5/2011

Stanislav Tkachenko Dmitry Tkachenko

Dr., Director of Diplomatic Studies Programme Saint-Petersburg State University Russia School of Economics Saint-Petersburg State University Russia

Special Economic Zones in Russia – new trends

5/2011 Lena Jonson PhD, Head of Russia Research Program Swedish Institute of International Affairs Sweden

Six more years with Vladimir Putin

5/2011 Kirill Rodionov Research Associate Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Russia

The outline of political reforms in future Russia

5/2011 Anaïs Marin Researcher Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Belarus – no economic miracle for free

5/2011 Barbro Widing Chief Counsellor Ministry of Employment&Economy Finland

Economic cooperation around the Baltic Sea – in search of efficiency and good governance

5/2011 Dmitri Lanko Associate Professor St. Petersburg State University Russia

Russia’s 2012/2013 CBSS Presidency

5/2011 Ismo Söderling Director Institute of Migration Finland

Finland, and migration in the Baltic Sea Region

217

5/2011

Malla Paajanen Riitta Kosonen

Project Manager Aalto University School of Economics Center for Markets in Transition, Helsinki Finland Professor, Director Aalto University School of Economics Center for Markets in Transition, Helsinki Finland

Joint promotion of the Baltic Sea Region – triple helix cooperation in practice

5/2011 Liisa Rohweder CEO, PhD (Econ.) WWF Finland Finland

Words cannot save the Baltic Sea

5/2011 Mikko Nikinmaa Professor Department of Biology University of Turku Finland

Dioxin in Baltic salmon and herring – is it a toxicological problem?

5/2011 Kim Jordas Managing Director Finnish Fishermen´s Association Finland

The challenges of professional fishery in the Baltic Sea – a Finnish point of view

5/2011 Irina Sennikova Dr.oec., Asoc. Prof. Rector RISEBA (Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration) Latvia

Intellectual entrepreneurship as a way to innovation economy

5/2011

Erik Terk Jüri Sakkeus

Professor, Director Tallinn University Estonian Institute for Futures Studies H-T Transplan Research Coordinator Tallinn University Estonian Institute for Futures Studies Estonia

Future of North-South connections – about transportation, but not only transportation

5/2011 Esa Sallinen Independent researcher Turku School of Economics Finland

How to select international distribution channels for business software products?

4/2011 Martti Ruokokoski Consul Murmansk Office of the Consulate General of Finland in St Petersburg

Tourism in the Arctic region and the Kola Peninsula

4/2011 Clive Archer Emeritus Professor in Politics Manchester Metropolitan University UK

The United Kingdom and the Arctic

4/2011 Lev Voronkov Doctor of History Professor of the Chair of European Integration at the MGIMO – University Russia

Russia as the partner in the Arctic

218

4/2011 Gleb Yarovoy Member of the Thematic Network on Arctic Geopolitics and Security PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of the International Relations Petrozavodsk State University Russia

Russia’s Arctic – a call for the new Arctic thinking

4/2011 Marlène Laruelle Research Professor Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) The Elliott School of International Affairs George Washington University

Russia’s narrative on the Arctic – from patriotic rhetoric to the Arctic ‘brand’

4/2011 Lassi Heininen Chairman of the Northern Research Forum University Lecturer and Adjunct Professor (Docent) Faculty of Social Sciences University of Lapland Finland

Globalization and Arctic Strategies indicators of a new significant geopolitical change in the Arctic region

4/2011 Charles Emmerson Senior Research Fellow Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs) UK

Inside out – the emerging geopolitics of a changing Arctic

4/2011 Alyson JK Bailes Adjunct Professor Faculty of Political Science University of Iceland

Why does the Arctic matter for the Baltic (and the Baltic States)?

4/2011 Alf Håkon Hoel Regional Director Institute of Marine Research Norway

International cooperation in the Arctic – 20 year anniversary

4/2011 Regis Rouge-Oikarinen

Research Director ThinkBarents-project University of Lapland

What future for Barents cooperation?

4/2011 Kristine Offerdal Dr., Associate Professor Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies Norwegian Defence University College

New optimism in the Barents Sea

4/2011

Tatiana Petrovna Skufina Sergey Vladimirovich Baranov

Professor (of economy) The Luzin Institute for Economic Studies (Kola Science Centre of RAS) Ph.D. (Physics-Mathematics) Senior Researcher The Luzin Institute for Economic Studies (Kola Science Centre of RAS) Russia

Complex estimation of socio-economic development of municipalities of Murmansk Region

4/2011 Frank Sejersen Ph.D., Associate Professor Waterworlds, funded by ERC Center for Anthropological Climate Research Department of Anthropology University of Copenhagen Denmark

Climate change and the emergence of a new Arctic region

219

4/2011 Erik Gant Executive Secretary Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples Secretariat (IPS)

Arctic strategies – from an indigenous perspective

4/2011 Liisa Holmberg Rector Sámi Education Institute Inari, Finland

Arctic indigenous peoples and innovations

4/2011 Tamara Semenova Senior Researcher Russian Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage named after Dmitry Likhachev Moscow, Russia

What future awaits indigenous peoples in Russia?

4/2011 Stefan Walter PhD, Researcher Arctic Centre University of Lapland

Resource management in the North

4/2011 Frédéric Lasserre Project Director ArcticNet Laval University Canada

Arctic shipping – the ships will come, but not for transit

4/2011 Tero Vauraste CEO Arctia Shipping Finland

Strong Arctic marine expertise from Finland

4/2011 Eini Laaksonen University Teacher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Identifying challenges of Finnish companies in entering the Murmansk region

4/2011 Jingchao Peng Research Assistant China and Global Security Programme Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

What is China doing in the Arctic?

4/2011 Sanna Kopra PhD Candidate University of Tampere Finland

The rise of China and international politics on climate change

4/2011 Mia Bennett Arctic Blogger Foreign Policy Association USA

Canadian and American perspectives on the Arctic

3/2011 Eero Heinäluoma Speaker of the Parliament Finland

The Nordic-Baltic cooperation

3/2011 Guido Westerwelle Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs Germany

The importance of the Baltic Sea region for Germany – priorities of the German presidency of the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) 2011/2012

3/2011 Ingrid Nestle Member of the German Bundestag Spokeswoman on energy industries of the Green Parliamentary Group Germany

Germany’s future energy policy

220

3/2011 Mikko Pukkinen Director General of the Confederation of Finnish Industries (EK) Finland

Finnish business and the Baltic Sea region

3/2011 Timo Rajakangas Ambassador for Baltic Sea Issues Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

Instead of three no’s it is four aye’s that apply to the EUSBSR

3/2011 Sten Nordin Mayor City of Stockholm Sweden

Stockholm calls for greater commitment to the well-being of the Baltic Sea

3/2011 Vladimir Kuzin PhD in Economics Head of the Economic Development Department Kaliningrad City Administration Russia

Post crisis economic growth in Kaliningrad region

3/2011 Andrey Klemeshev Dr of Political Science, Professor Rector of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad) Russia

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University as an example of EU-Russia cooperation

3/2011 Bernard Lammek Professor, Rector University of Gdańsk Poland

The University of Gdańsk – the largest institution of higher education in Northern Poland

3/2011 Edgar Öhberg Director The Baltic Sea Fund

The importance of fishery

3/2011 Mika Vehviläinen President and CEO Finnair

The Baltic Boutique and the future of air travel

3/2011 Anneli Pauli Deputy Director-General Innovation and ERA Directorate General for Research & Innovation European Commission

EU-Russia cooperation in promoting innovation

3/2011 Riitta Mustonen Vice President for Research Academy of Finland Finland

Significance of international activities to the research system

3/2011

Michael Schlicht Marion Mienert

Director Division 213: Cooperation with Russia, CIS Federal Ministry of Education and Research Head of Unit: Cooperation with Russia and CIS countries International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

German-Russian collaboration in research and innovation

221

3/2011 Vladimir V. Okrepilov

Corresponding Member of RAS Deputy Chairman of St. Petersburg Scientific Center of RAS Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the “Skolkovo” Foundation General Director of FGI “Center for Testing and Certification - St. Petersburg” Russia

Economic development based on the economics for quality

3/2011 Frank Schauff CEO Association of European Businesses in the Russian Federation

Russia-EU partnership for modernisation – words and reality

3/2011 Oleg Luksha Senior consultant, Chairman of the board Russian Technology Transfer Network Russia

Russian Technology Transfer Network – gate to Russia’s innovations

3/2011 Igor Kuprienko CEO, European-Russian InnoPartnership Head, Lappeenranta Representative Office in St.Petersburg Director, Finnish-RussianInnovation Centre St.Petersburg Russia

Finnish-Russian Innovation Centre – main results of activities

3/2011 Turo Uskali Senior research Scholar Department of Communication University of Jyväskylä Finland

Innovation and journalism – convergence

3/2011 Hanna Mäkinen Doctoral Student Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics University of Turku Finland

Innovations – a key to the future competitiveness of the Baltic Sea region

3/2011 Richard Connolly Lecturer in Political Economy Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham United Kingdom

Financial constraints on the modernization of the Russian economy

3/2011 Alexander Chulok Head of Division Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Using Foresight as an instrument for constructing future vision for key sectors of Russian economy – results and lessons

3/2011 Anders Björnsson Editor-in-Chief Baltic Worlds

Science as an engine of integration – academic environments as common public spheres

222

3/2011 Klaus Schuch George Bonas Jörn Sonnenburg

ZSI – Centre for Social Innovation International Center for Black Sea Studies and National Hellenic Research Foundation Greece International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research at the Project Management Agency c/o German Aerospace Center (DLR)

International science and technology cooperation in Eastern European countries

3/2011 Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius

Professor, Department of History, University of Tennessee, USA Director, Center for the Study of War and Society President, Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies

War and conflict in the Baltic Sea region – a historical perspective

3/2011 Artur Usanov Strategic Analyst The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies

Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant – economics and geopolitics

3/2011 Pekka Salomaa Director, Electricity Supply and Trading Finnish Energy Industries Finland

The electricity market around the Baltic Sea – still political

3/2011 Bo Petersson Professor of International Migration and Ethnic Relations Malmö University Sweden

Master of the house – Putin, the presidency and political myth in Russia

3/2011 Konrad Popławski Analyst – German Desk Centre for Eastern Studies

Is Russia still a bric country – exports to Russia during the global crisis from German perspective

3/2011 Urban Wråkberg PhD, MScMetE, Senior Researcher The Barents Institute of the University of Tromsø Norway

The challenges of forecasting Arctic energy projects

3/2011 Mai-Brith Schartau Associate professor in political science Södertörn University, Stockholm Sweden

The work of German environmental organization in the Baltic Sea region

3/2011 Timo Korpela Director, Joint Biotechnology Laboratory University of Turku Finland

Joint Biotechnology Laboratory, twenty-two years Finnish-Russian successful collaboration in biotechnology

3/2011 Erik Bonsdorff Department of Biosciences, Environmental and Marine Biology Åbo Akademi University, Turku Finland

Some ecological and political challenges for the Baltic Sea

3/2011 Mia Crawford Senior Adviser & Head Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat

Baltic Sea region rides on the green economic wave

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3/2011 Eero Yrjö-Koskinen Executive director Finnish Association for Nature Conservation Finland

From voluntary to legally binding measures in the Baltic Sea

3/2011 Níels Einarsson Director of the Stefansson Arctic Institute Akureyri Iceland

Fisheries governance, equity, and externalities in post-crisis Iceland

3/2011 Wolf Born Coordinator of Priority Area Tourism, EUSBSR Head of Unit in the State Chancellery, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Germany

After two years of implementation – The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea region at a crossroads?

3/2011 Juha Aaltonen Airport Manager Turku Airport Finland

Turku Airport

3/2011 Arto Asikainen Area manager Finnish Tourist Board (Visit Finland) Finland

Russian tourists in Finland – national success story of Finland

3/2011 Juhana Tuomola Information Officer Europe Information Finland

EU information services in the Baltic Sea region

3/2011 Petteri Siika-aho Planning Officer University Planning and Development University of Turku Finland

Multidisciplinary university and societal interaction

3/2011 Timo Koivumäki Managing Director Business Park Vyborg Ltd

Industrial business parks – SMSE employment platform in Russia

3/2011 Tero Vauraste President and CEO Arctia Shipping Ltd.

Efficiency gains through combination of oil spill recovery, icebreaking and cross-border cooperation

3/2011 Tero Hemmilä CEO Yara Suomi Oy

Towards environmental friendly and productive agriculture – Yara’s solutions for a cleaner Baltic Sea

3/2011 Pasi Lähdetie Vice President, Green Economy Raisio Group

Enough food to feed the world?

3/2011 Elisabeth Lind Elisabeth Lind Communication and Marketing Manager AB Bostaden in Umeå

Affect peoples energy consumption by design?

3/2011 Katri Savijärvi Marketing Manager Molok Oy

A better solution for waste management

2/2011 Karel De Gucht Trade Commissioner European Commission

Overview of current EU-Russia trade and investment relations

2/2011 Artis Pabriks Dr., Minister of Defence Latvia

Challenges and solutions to the regional security

224

2/2011 Dirk Ahner Director-General Directorate General for Regional Policy European Commission

Completing the Circle – Russia and the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

2/2011 Björn Grönholm Head of Secretariat Union of the Baltic Cities – Commission on Environment

Cooperation in change in the Baltic Sea Region

2/2011 Marko Pomerants Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Estonia 2009-2011 Member of the Riigikogu 2011- Head of the Legal Affairs Comittee Pro Patria and Res Publica Union faction Estonia

About the underlying documents that have shaped Estonia’s policy of internal security

2/2011 Aino-Maija Luukkonen

Mayor City of Pori Finland

Pori–Riga – cooperation in the future

2/2011

Fred Karlsson Henrik Lax Henrik Meinander

Professor of General Linguistics University of Helsinki Finland Member of the European Parliament 2004-2009 and the Parliament of Finland 1987-2004 Finland Vice Dean and Professor of History University of Helsinki Finland

Finland in need of a strategy for promoting language skills

2/2011 Andrea Goldstein Head Global Relations OECD Investment Division

Big business in the BRICs

2/2011 Kai Mykkänen Economist East Office of Finnish Industries Oy Finland

Russia’s WTO accession might be a game-changer

2/2011 Vladimir Baranovsky

Deputy Director Institute of World economy and International Relations (IMEMO) Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

What is bringing the United States, Europe and Russia together

2/2011 Mikko Ruohonen and Lea Ahoniemi

Professor

Adjunct Professor, Ph.D.

Center for Research on Information, Customer and Innovation Management University of Tampere Finland

China is ruling rare earth elements and oxide production

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2/2011 Anders Blom

Ossi Tuusvuori

Chairman Supervising Board

Advisor

Europe Foundation Finland

The Europe Foundation focuses its future action on the Baltic Sea Region – Baltic Sea strategy and protection is a priority area in Europe

2/2011 Silke Lorenz Katariina Röbbelen-Voigt

Project Coordination Education and Training Service for Hamburg Businesses (BWH) Project Manager BSLN Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg Ministry of Science and Research Germany

Forum for social dialogue in the Baltic Sea Region – a model for Europe

2/2011 Marko Lönnqvist Journalist Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE Finland

Shale gas can shake up the European gas market

2/2011 Lars Petter Lunden Researcher Econ Pöyry Norway

Russian gas price reform and its impact on exports to Europe

2/2011 Markku Kivinen Professor, Director The Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Energy superpower of business as usual?

2/2011 Pentti-Oskari Kangas

Steamship Captain s/s Ukkopekka Old Master of the archipelago estate Herrankukkaro Extra hand and part-time pensioner (only 12 hours/day of work) THE HAPPY MAN Finland

I am a happy man

2/2011 Seppo Knuuttila Senior Research Scientist SYKE Finnish Environment Institute Marine Research Centre / State of the Marine Environment Finland

Can the Baltic Sea recover from eutrophication?

2/2011 Juha Salonen Managing Director Salonen Bakery (Leipomo Salonen Oy) Finland

Eating bread to clean up the Archipelago Sea

2/2011 Irina A. Shmeleva PhD, Associate Professor School of International Relations Saint Petersburg State University Russia

Sustainable development of Saint Petersburg – goals, problems, strategies

2/2011 Ilppo Vuorinen Professor Environmental Research Centre University of Turku Finland

Climate change in the Baltic Sea marine environment

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2/2011 Stanislav E. Shmelev

Ph.D., Research Associate Oxford Department of International Development Queen Elizabeth House Oxford University UK

Dynamic sustainability assessment – the case of Russia in the period of transition (1985-2007)

2/2011

Martti Komulainen Katariina Kiviluoto

Project Manager BalticSeaNow.info project Finland Project Coordinator BalticSeaNow.info project Finland

Baltic Sea needs public involvement

2/2011 Aleksandr Nikitin Chairman ERC (Environmental Rights Centre) «Bellona» (St.Petersburg) Russia

Nuclear problems of the North-West of Russia (from Fukushima perspective)

2/2011

Anne Gry Rønningen Ksenia Vakhrusheva

Project manager The Bellona Foundation, Oslo Norway Project Manager The Environmental Rights Center Bellona, St. Petersburg Russia

Renewable future in the Russian Barents Region

2/2011 Ingmar Oldberg Associate Researcher Swedish Institute of International Affairs Sweden

Security challenges in the Baltic Sea region – a Swedish perspective

2/2011 Mikhail Belkin Assistant to Director General ROSATOMFLOT Russia

Northern Sea Route enters international shipping business

2/2011 Yrjö Myllylä Doctor of Social Sciences Senior Researcher Finland Futures Research Centre University of Turku Finland

The North-East Passage is already a fact

2/2011 Valery Mitko President Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Arctic Public Academy of Sciences

Chairman of Saint-Petersburg Branch of Geo-Policy and Safety Section Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Russia

Evolution of geopolitical factors, determining innovative directions of the Arctic regions sustainable development

2/2011 Julian Cooper Professor Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham UK

Russia’s human capital and the task of modernisation

227

2/2011 Valdar Liive Director Enterprise Estonia Helsinki

Estonian-Finnish cooperation in the fields of innovation, and R&D as a start-up company

2/2011

Jukka Viitanen Martti Launonen

Dr., CEO Hubconcepts Inc. Finland Dr., Chairman Hubconcepts Inc. Finland

Transferring innovation system knowledge to every-day best practices

2/2011 Henri Vogt Professor of International Politics University of Turku Finland

Estonia – ever more firmly in the nation-liberal course?

2/2011 Laura Kauhanen

Pekka Koponen

Consultant, Dr.

CEO

Spinverse Oy Finland

Materials technologies transform Estonian economy

2/2011

Irina Busygina Mikhail Filippov

Director Center for Regional Political Studies Professor Moscow State Institute of International Relations Russia Professor Department of Political Science Binghamton University (SUNY) USA

Modernization and innovative development in Russia – what lacks?

2/2011 Päivi Karhunen

Riitta Kosonen

Dr., Head of Research

Prof. , Director

Center for Markets in Transition Aalto University School of Economics Finland

Russia’s modernization program as opportunity for Baltic Rim economic cooperation

2/2011 Sinikukka Saari Dr., Researcher The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

The boom and crash of modernisation zeal in EU–Russia relations

2/2011 Sergey Filippov Dr., Assistant Professor of Innovation Management Delft University of Technology The Netherlands

Innovation strategies of emerging Russian multinational companies

2/2011 Katja Weckström University Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law Faculty of Law University of Turku Finland

Law in the information society – a platform for cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region

228

2/2011 Csaba Makó Péter Csizmadia Miklós Illéssy Ichiro Iwaskai Miklós Szanyi Péter Csizmadia

Institute of Sociology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Debrecen University Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Hungary Institute of Sociology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungary Institute of Sociology Hungarian Academy of Sciences Hungary Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubahsi University (Tokyo) Japan Institute for World Economics Hungarian Academy of Sciences Debrecen University Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Hungary Institute for World Economics Hungarian Academy of Sciences Debrecen University Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Hungary

Innovation and knowledge development in the knowledge intensive business service sector (cross-country comparison – Hungary versus Slovakia)

2/2011 Leena Lehtinen D.Sc.(Business Adm.), LL.Lic. Docent, University of Turku Legal Expert Law Firm Lex Leena Lehtinen Tampere Finland

Are there any landowners in Russia?

2/2011 Jukka Pietiläinen Postdoctoral researcher Aleksanteri-Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Is a new glasnost era beginning?

2/2011 Galina Shmarlouskaya

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Economics Dean of School of International Economic Relations Belarus State Economic University Belarus

Benefits and challenges in developing regional integration (the case of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan)

2/2011 Matthew Frear Dr. Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham UK

The EU and Belarus after the 2010 presidential election

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1/2011 Solvita Āboltiņa Speaker The Saeima The Republic of Latvia

Stability, partnership, responsibility – Latvia’s way out of the global financial crisis

1/2011 Olli Rehn Member of the European Commission responsible for Economic and Monetary Affairs

Working for revival of the European economy

1/2011 Riikka Manner Member of European Parliament (Centre Party) Member of European Parliament Committee on Regional Development

Regional policy ensures an intact future for the European Union

1/2011 Ulla-Maj Wideroos Member of Parliament Finland

Nordic cooperation – as important as ever

1/2011 Arja Karhuvaara Member of Parliament (National Coalition Party) Member of the Employment Committee Finland

The many faces of natural gas

1/2011 Krista Kiuru and Vera Lindman

Member of Parliament STETE’s Chair

Secretary General STETE Finland

Arctic – the world’s new playground

1/2011 James Zhan and Astrit Sulstarova

Director

Economic Affairs Officer

Investment and Enterprise Division, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Foreign direct investments in Baltic States – lessons learned and prospects for the future

1/2011 Maria Gaidar Deputy Governor The Kirov Region Russia

Health care reform in the Russian Federation

1/2011 Volker Schlotmann Minister for Transport Building and Regional Development of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Germany

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as logistics hub for Baltic Sea transport

1/2011 Knud Andersen Member of the BSSSC Board Member of the Board of Danish Regions Denmark

Baltic Sea organisations put budgetary pressure on EU decision-makers

1/2011 Hannu Halinen Arctic Ambassador Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

Arctic challenges – a Finnish view

1/2011 Valery Shlyamin Doctor of Economics Trade Representative of the Russian Federation in Finland Russia

Modernisation of Russian economy in collaboration with Finnish partners

1/2011 Olli Perheentupa Consul General of Finland in St. Petersburg Finnish presence in St. Petersburg

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1/2011 Ramune Zabuliene Deputy Chairperson Bank of Lithuania Lithuania

Lithuania – the adjustment process towards the euro

1/2011 Maria Kaisa Aula The Ombudsman for Children in Finland The Office of the Ombudsman for Children in Finland

It pays to invest in the welfare of children and families

1/2011 Tuula Teeri President Aalto University Finland

Aalto University – think again

1/2011 Tapio Reponen Vice-rector University of Turku Finland

The University of Turku has its roots far behind and a look into the future

1/2011 Marja Makarow Chief Executive European Science Foundation France

Professor of Applied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Helsinki Finland

The European Research Area needs to go global

1/2011 Joseph Nye Professor Harvard University USA

Russia and reform

1/2011 Fyodor Lukyanov Editor Russia in Global Affairs Russia

Russia at another cross-road

1/2011 Seija Lainela Senior Economist Bank of Finland – BOFIT Finland

Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan on way to closer economic co-operation

1/2011 Sergei F. Sutyrin Professor, Head World Economy Department St.Petersburg State University The WTO Chair Holder Russia

Russia and World Trade Organization (WTO) – end of journey or endless one?

1/2011 Jukka Ruusunen President and CEO Fingrid Oyj Finland

Baltic Sea electricity market needs a functioning grid infrastructure – EstLink 2 will be one of the main electricity highways in the region

1/2011 Aloyzas Koryzna Director General LIETUVOS ENERGIJA Lithuania

Lithuanian Energy after the decommissioning of the Ignalina nuclear power plant

1/2011 Sergei Pereslegin

Artiom Zheltov

Director

Senior Analyst

Non-profit public think-tank Encyclopaedia Russia

A new nuclear race

231

1/2011 Alan Riley Professor City Law School, City University, London The United Kingdom

Whither Gazprom – can Gazprom survive in a shale gas world?

1/2011 Jaanus Mutli Member of the board Foundation Tallinn 2011 Estonia

Tallinn 2011 invites the world to hear its sea and its people

1/2011 Anne-Marget Niemi Director of Tourism Turku Touring – Southwest Finland tourist and convention bureau Finland

Through great commitment a new tourist destination in the Baltic Sea is created!

1/2011 Wolfgang Blank

Leonas Grinius

Peter Frank

BioCon Valley and Chairman of ScanBalt

Lithuanian Biotechnology Association

ScanBalt

Creation of a healthy and wealthy Baltic Sea Region (BSR)

1/2011 Pirjo Karhu Manfred Janoschka

Chairman of the Board Konsu ACCOUNTOR GROUP Finland-Russia-Ukraine CEO/Managing Partner Konsu ACCOUNTOR GROUP

New trends in business in Moscow–St. Petersburg

1/2011 Markku Mylly Managing Director Finnish Port Association Finland

Port development in the Baltic Sea Area

1/2011 Karl-Heinz Breitzmann

Prof., Dr., Managing Director Baltic Institute of Marketing, Transport and Tourism University of Rostock Germany

Impact of the recession on Baltic maritime transport

1/2011 Natalia Ivanova First Deputy Director Institute of World Economy and International Relations Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Russia’s innovation policy and modernization agenda

1/2011 Marja-Liisa Tenhunen Irja Leppisaari

Rector, PhD (Econ) Principal Lecturer, PhD (Ed) Central Ostrobothnia University of Applied Sciences Finland

The National Innovation Strategy’s impact on university of applied sciences learning environments

1/2011 Leonid Polishchuk Professor Higher School of Economics Russia

“Modernization from above” in historical perspective

1/2011 Markku Kangaspuro

Dr, Director of Research Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Russia's search for modernizaton

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1/2011 Karri Hautanen Head of Services Technopolis

Founder The Finnish Mobile Association Finland

Baltic Region will be the Silicon Valley of Europe

1/2011 Manfred Spiesberger Researcher & project manager Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI) Austria

R&D and innovation – a window of opportunity for enhanced cooperation with Russia?

1/2011 Jukka Pietiläinen Postdoctoral researcher Aleksanteri-Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Russian modernisation – technological or socio-cultural one?

1/2011 Félix Krawatzek MSc Candidate Russian and East European Studies University of Oxford United Kingdom

Modernisation of Russia – moving beyond rhetoric?

1/2011 Thorsten Posselt Mathias Rauch

Dr., Director Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Leipzig Professor for Innovation: Management and Economics University of Leipzig Deputy Director Fraunhofer Center for Central and Eastern Europe Leipzig Germany

Internationalization activities of German cluster initiatives – the role of CEE

1/2011 Sam Inkinen Media Scholar, Futures Researcher, Senior Consultant Finland

Innovation and “innoflation” – challenges of creative processes, systemic innovations, and ubiquitous technologies

1/2011 Alexey Ignatiev Program and Development Director Kaliningrad Regional Economic Development Agency Russia

The Kaliningrad Region as a modernization model of modern Russia

1/2011 Jouko Grönholm Free lance editor Finland

How to make the challenges of Kaliningrad to become true?

1/2011 Tatiana Chekalina Doctoral Student European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR) Mid-Sweden University Sweden

Kaliningrad as an international tourism destination – still a challenge

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1/2011

Ivan Samson Marina Krasilnikova

Professor of Economics UPMF, University Grenoble France Sociologist, Research Director Levada Centre Moscow Russia

The middle class in Russia – emerging reality or old myth?

1/2011 Andrey Pavlov Ph.D., Associate Professor Chair of the Master Program “Strategic Studies” School of International Relations Saint-Petersburg State University Russia

Russian military reform – what’s next?

1/2011 Joachim Diec Adjunct Professor, dr hab. Chair of Russian History and Political Thought Institute of Russia and Eastern Europe Department of International and Political Studies Jagiellonian University Cracow, Poland

The perspectives of Russian radical nationalism

1/2011 Markku Jokisipilä Academic Director Baltic Sea Region Studies Master’s Programme University of Turku Finland

Kremlin takes its sport seriously

1/2011 Thomas Lundén Professor of Human Geography (em.) Center for Baltic and East European Studies Södertörn University Sweden

Szczecin – center of a truncated border region with geopolitical dilemmas

1/2011 Markku Ollikainen Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics Department of Economics and Management University of Helsinki Finland

Protecting the Baltic Sea – a challenge to the international environmental policy

1/2011 Håkan Knutsson Managing Director Sustainable Business Hub Scandinavia AB Sweden

Baltic Rim countries in pole position in the eco-efficiency race?

1/2011 Juha Ruokonen Manager, Market Analysis and Policy Design GreenStream Finland

Carbon markets in transition – opportunities and challenges

1/2011 Sigitas Brazinskas Commercial attaché Embassy of Lithuania in Sweden

Through the integration in the Nordic Europe to the global value chains

234

1/2011 Andres Kasekamp Professor of Baltic Politics University of Tartu

Director Estonian Foreign Policy Institute Estonia

The Baltic States – moving together or apart?

1/2011 Päivi Toivanen Publishing Editor Europe Information Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

‘Focus on the Baltic’ book sums up the facts

1/2011 Alexander Kulakov Independent Analyst Ukraine

Political and social stability in Ukraine after the first year of Yanukovych’s presidency

1/2011 Markku Tuomola Lecturer Department of Management / Information Systems Science Turku School of Economics, University of Turku Finland

From industrial structures to agile global service networks – a disruptive revolution or led transformation?

6/2010 Egemen Bağış Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Republic of Turkey

The future of Europe and Turkey on the basis of the report of the EU reflection group

6/2010 Dainius Kreivys Minister Ministry of Economy Lithuania

Post-crisis Lithuania ­ lessons and recovery

6/2010

Hannu Takkula

Vesa Kangaslahti

MEd., Member of the European Parliament

Ph.D., Special Advisor at the European Parliament

Education in times of recession and at the age of innovation

6/2010 Igor Yurgens Chairman of the Management Board The Institute of Contemporary Development Russia

Russia’s modernization ­ a progress report

6/2010 Jaakko Iloniemi Chairman, M. Pol. Sc., Dr. Pol. Sc. h.c. Advisory Board Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Modernization of Russia

6/2010 Alexander V. Khoroshilov

Professor, Ph.D. Lomonosov Moscow State University Russia

ICT competence and HRD in public administration sector of Russian Federation

6/2010 Seppo Honkapohja Member of the Board Bank of Finland Finland

Economic prospects for Russia and its implications for the Baltic Rim region after the global crisis

6/2010 Gennady G. Melikiyan

First Deputy Chairman The Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia) Russia

Russian banking sector after global financial crisis

235

6/2010 Stefan Widomski Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland in Espoo/Finland

Chairman Forum Polonia Association

Former Senior Vice President / International Business Affairs Nokia Corporation

Finland

How to develop civic society in Eastern Europe? From an academic institute to a civic think tank. The example of activity of the Polish Gdańsk Institute for Market Economics.

6/2010 Niklas Mannfolk University of Turku Student Union Council President

Finland

Quo vadis, Evropa? ­ A look at the future of European energy production

6/2010 Cay Sevón Dr. Soc.Sc., CEO Turku 2011 Foundation

Finland

Turku 2011 European Capital of Culture in local and regional development

6/2010 F.V. Karmazinov Director General SUE “Vodokanal of St. Petersburg”

Professor, Doctor of Engineering

Russia

Best practices to improve water quality in the Gulf of Finland as exemplified by Vodokanal of St. Petersburg

6/2010 Maija Saijonmaa

Karl-Johan Lehtinen

Project Manager Carbon Finance and Funds

Senior Manager, Environmental Affairs

NEFCO Finland

NEFCO’s role in improving the environmental status of the Baltic Sea

6/2010 Juhani Tervala Director General The Finnish Transport Agency Finland

Minimising close calls with intelligent transport systems

6/2010 Matti Aaltonen Director Maritime Department / Traffic Management Finnish Transport Agency Finland

Safe shipping – the result of conserted effort

6/2010 Pekka Laaksonen Director, Tanker Safety project John Nurminen Foundation Finland

The biggest threat for the Gulf of Finland ­ oil catastrophe

6/2010 Tommi Kivilaakso Head of Eastern Customs District Finnish Customs Finland

Changes in the Finnish-Russian border traffic and customs cooperation

6/2010 Katri Pynnöniemi Researcher, Ph.D. The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

What makes modernization a political project?

236

6/2010 Einari Kisel Deputy Secretary General of Energy Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications Estonia

Decisive years in creation of the Baltic power market

6/2010 Antero Jännes CEO Gasum OY Finland

Gas around the Baltic Sea

6/2010 Matti Hilli Managing Director Vapo Oy Finland

Renewable energy markets in Baltic Sea region from a perspective of a bioenergy company

6/2010 Pami Aalto Jean Monnet Professor, Director The Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence University of Tampere Finland

How will Russia cope in the emerging new energy agenda?

6/2010 Joseph Dutton Energy Analyst Douglas-Westwood Ltd The United Kingdom

The Shale Gale – perfect storm or flitting breeze?

6/2010 Kalervo Väänänen MD, Ph.D., Academic Rector University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Finland

University of Eastern Finland, an example of Finnish university reform

6/2010 Antti Valle and Pirjo Kutinlahti

Head of Division

Ministerial Adviser

Ministry of Employment and the Economy Finland

Baltic Sea Region – a globally recognised innovation hub

6/2010 Ilya Romanovich Shegelman

Vice-rector for Innovations Professor, Doctor of Technical Engineering Petrozavodsk State University Russia

University in innovative space region

6/2010 Kai Savolainen Research Professor Nanosafety Research Centre Finnish Institute of Occupational Health Finland

Assuring safe use of engineered nanomaterials and nanotechnologies ­ a challenge for the future or today?

6/2010 Alexey Prazdnichnykh Kari Liuhto

Partner Strategy Partners Group Russia Professor, Director Pan-European Institute, University of Turku Finland

The Russian CEOs analyse the innovation activity of their company

6/2010 Jarosław Ćwiek-Karpowicz

Research Fellow, Ph.D. The Polish Institute of International Affairs Poland

Partnership for modernisation – incentive to revise the EU-Russia relations

237

6/2010 Pasi Malinen Prof., D.Sc. (Econ.&Bus. Admn.) BID Business Innovation and Development University of Turku Finland

Universities’ innovation and entrepreneurship activities at cross-roads in Baltic Sea Region – case Pskov

6/2010 Jari Lähteenmäki

Jarkko Heinonen

CEO

Assistant Manager

Turku Chamber of Commerce Finland

Finland should dare to take initiative ­ the strategy for the Baltic Sea region needs to be concretized

6/2010 Juha Stenholm Area Director Finnish-Russian Chamber of Commerce, Representative office in Moscow

Way out of the crisis ­ privatization of Russian federal property

6/2010 Sergey Stefanishin

Alexey Skvortsov

Yulia Tsykalo

Partner, Tax and Legal

Senior Manager, Tax and Legal

Senior, Tax and Legal

Ernst & Young (Moscow office) Russia

Game rules for foreign investments in strategic companies in Russia

6/2010 Heli Pellikka Senior Manager, Russia – Nordic Desk Ernst & Young Oy Finland

Combining the requirements of Russian Accounting Principles and IFRS – challenge for many international companies

6/2010 Krista Taipale Head of Office Turku-Southwest Finland European office Belgium

It has been a year since the implementation of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region started – how is the situation today?

6/2010 Aku Alanen Senior Statistician, Researcher Statistics Finland Finland

Large towns dominant in the economy of culture in Finland

6/2010 Marcus Svedberg Marcus Svedberg Chief Economist East Capital AB France

Herd mentality

6/2010 Irina Novikova Professor Center for Gender Studies University of Latvia Latvia

Gender equality in Latvia – achievements and challenges

6/2010 Keir Giles Director Conflict Studies Research Centre The United Kingdom

Russian military transformation – work in progress

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6/2010

Dominik P. Jankowski

Barbara Kirejczyk

Expert-Analyst The National Security Bureau of Poland The Editor-in-Chief of the Pulaski Policy Papers Poland

Project Manager for Scandinavia and the Baltic States The Eastern Institute in Warsaw Research Fellow Casimir Pulaski Foundation Poland

Baltic Sea sustained stability vs. Black Sea geopolitical struggle ­ myth or reality?

6/2010 Marat Terterov Director and Principal Founder, Dr. European Geopolitical Forum Belgium

Bringing Russia into NATO ­ a Trojan horse in the making

6/2010 Bo Österlund Former Navy Commodore Finland

On security management and precautions on municipal level

5/2010 Mykola Azarov Prime Minister of Ukraine Ukraine – Finland: European rapprochement

5/2010 Johannes Hahn Commissioner for Regional Development The European Commission

A look at the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea

5/2010 Norbert Röttgen Dr., Federal Environment Minister Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Germany

Germany – an important player in international Baltic Sea protection

5/2010 Knut Fleckenstein Member of the European Parliament Chairman of the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee

The EU-Russia modernisation partnership – what's in it?

5/2010 Bruce J. Oreck Ambassador Embassy of the United States of America Helsinki, Finland

New energy development in the Baltic

5/2010 Christer Michelsson Ambassador of Finland to Ukraine The relations between Finland and Ukraine in 2010

5/2010 Mikko Paatero National Police Commissioner, Chief of the National Police Board Finland

Baltic Sea Region Task Force on organised crime

5/2010 Jacqueline McGlade Professor, Executive Director European Environment Agency Denmark

The main environmental challenges of the 2010's in the Baltic Sea region

5/2010 Zygmunt Berdychowski

Chairman Economic Forum Programme Council

Economic Forum in Krynica, Poland – 20 years of rethinking the world and boosting the region

239

5/2010 Hans Brask Director Baltic Development Forum Denmark

The EU Strategy – keep focus on green and smart growth in the Baltic Sea Region

5/2010 Jaakko Kiander Managing Director The Labour Institute for Economic Research Finland

European imbalances and Baltic region growth potential

5/2010 Klaus Wittmann Brigadier General (ret.), Dr.

Germany

Towards NATO’s new Strategic Concept

5/2010 Derek Averre Dr., Director Centre for Russian and East European Studies University of Birmingham UK

Russia-NATO relations ­ time for a change?

5/2010 Riina Kaljurand Deputy Director of the International Centre for Defence Studies

Baltic Sea security ­ issue or non-issue?

5/2010 Risto Sulkava Ph.D., President of the Board Finnish Association for Nature Conservation Finland

What is the right price for nature?

5/2010 Anne Berner Managing Director Vallila Interior Chairman of the Board Finnish Family Firms Association Finland

Family business ­ does ownership matter?

5/2010 Harri Kerminen President & CEO Kemira Oyj Finland

Baltic Sea – Kemira at your service

5/2010 Aimo Eloholma Chairman of the Board of Directors “OJSC” MegaFon (Russia) Finland

Russia ­ affordable Internet access across the country

5/2010 Mikael Aro President and CEO VR Group Finland

Rail services connecting Finland and Russia

5/2010 Matti Miettunen M.Sc. (Econ. & Bus. Adm.) Managing Director Delta Freight Ltd. Finland

Take the A Train

5/2010 Darius Brekys The Board Member Lithuanian National Freight Association LINEKA Lithuania

Lithuania ­ a narrow corridor for heavy transit freight

5/2010 Miroslawa Ponczek Marketing Specialist C. Hartwig Gdynia S.A. Poland

Simplified customs procedures on EU territory in international transport of goods by sea

5/2010 Nikolay Shavrov Station manager Innovation Norway - St.Petersburg office Russia

Russian Maritime sector in 2010

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5/2010 Nikolay Dobronravin

Professor School of International Relations St.Petersburg University Russia

Maritime issues in Russia’s energy politics in the Baltic Sea Region

5/2010 Claus Lassen Managing Director DHL Express Denmark Denmark

DHL Express Denmark – competing for a great future

5/2010 Kai Mykkänen Economist East Office of Finnish Industries Oy Finland

What do Finnish investment in Russia tell us?

5/2010 Kalle Euro Business Development Director City of Turku Director of Turku Region Development Centre Finland

Russia – not such a mystery after all

5/2010 Alexander Karlik

Olga Garanina

Dr., Prof., Vice Rector for Scientific Affairs

Dr., Head of Center for Energy Policy Research and Training

St Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance Russia

Unconventional gas and Russia

5/2010 Matthew Hulbert Senior Fellow, Center for Security Studies ETH Zurich Switzerland

Europe’s lethargy ­ Russia’s opening

5/2010 Eric Brunat Vice-president in charge of European and international relations

Faculty of Law and Economics IREGE Research Center University of Savoie France

Successful scientific and technological ‘Modernizatsia’ in Russia requires institutional and economic changes

5/2010 Viatcheslav Morozov

Associate Professor of International Relations University of Tartu Estonia

Dmitry Medvedev’s modernisation from above

5/2010 Stefan Hedlund Professor Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies Uppsala University Sweden

Economies in transition and transition economics

5/2010 Riitta Pyykkö Chair of the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council FINHEEC Professor of Russian Language and Culture

University of Turku Finland

Common understanding of quality as a basis for the development of cooperation in higher education between Finland and Russia

241

5/2010 Louis Clerc Ph.D., University Lecturer Department of Political Studies University of Turku Finland

Trade, trade, trade ­ Russia from a French perspective in 2010

5/2010 Ilmari Larjavaara Dr. (Soc.Sc), Researcher Tampere University of Technology (TUT) Finland

Do we need better "institutional marketing" in Russian trade?

5/2010 Alexander Gogolevskiy

Professor, Doctor of History Rector Pskov State Pedagogical University Russia

Pskov State Pedagogical University on the way to the European higher education area

5/2010 Jesper Roine Associate Professor of Economics and Deputy Director Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) Sweden

The Russia-Belarus energy relationship – a reluctantly continuing affair

5/2010 Gabriele Kötschau Lawyer in Flensburg

Germany

Belarus ­ a Baltic Sea country?

5/2010 Juhani Salokannel Executive Manager Tuglas Society Finland

Two neighbours

5/2010 Pekka Räsänen Professor of Economic Sociology University of Turku Finland

ICT use and ageing populations in Baltic area

5/2010 Marko Lehti Senior research fellow, Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere Academic Director of Baltic Sea Region Studies, University of Turku Finland

Baltic success story – but what next?

5/2010 Xiaotian Zhang Ph.D. exp, Doctoral Researcher, Co-lecturer Faculty of Economics and Business Administration University of Tartu

Chairman & Founder Raatuse International Trade Estonia

“To Be or Not To Be” business relations between the Baltic States and China, example of Estonia

5/2010 Venelin Tsachevsky Ph.D., Professor, Director Contemporary Foreign Policy Studies Centre Bulgaria

Black Sea economic cooperation – how good example it is for the Baltic Region?

5/2010 Zeki Kütük Docent, researcher Tampere Peace Research Institute University of Tampere Finland

Turkey as an energy import corridor

242

5/2010 Andriy Chubyk Executive Director Centre for Global Studies “Strategy XXI” Ukraine

Ukraine and its future role in the EU-Russia gas transit

5/2010 Petteri Hannonen CEO Ampparit Oy Finland

Entering Russian markets – a point of view of a Finnish SME

5/2010 Timo Painilainen Master of Social Sciences Researcher Environmental Sociology University of Turku Finland

Finnish press presents an image of a nauseous Baltic Sea

4/2010 Vlad Filat Prime Minister The Republic of Moldova

Bringing Moldova closer to the European Union

4/2010 Libor Rouček Vice-President, S&D European Parliament

Endangered European security?

4/2010 Maud Olofsson Minister for Enterprise and Energy, Deputy Prime Minister Sweden

Energy co-operation in the Baltic Sea region

4/2010 Carl Haglund Member European Parliament

Vice Chair of the Parliament Intergroup for the Baltic Sea

EU and Russia – why they matter for the Baltic Sea

4/2010 Jenni Kuronen Researcher Centre for Maritime Studies University of Turku Finland

Fundamental changes are needed in the governance of maritime safety

4/2010 Ramūnas Vilpišauskas

Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilnius University

Former Chief Economic and Social policy Advisor to the President of Lithuania

Lithuania and euro – a second opportunity not to be missed

4/2010 Jukka Gustafsson Project Director Sales & Marketing STX Finland Oy Turku, Finland

Current challenges of Finnish and Russian shipbuilding – collaboration in R&D and building of ice class special tonnage

4/2010 Bo Österlund Navy Commodore (ret) Finland

The Arctic region is warming up as a result of climatic change, and the repositioning of security policy

4/2010 M. de Haas Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Senior Research Fellow The Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael The Netherlands

Russia’s future security stance versus friends and foes

243

4/2010 Seppo Ruohonen Lieutenant Colonel GS (ret) Finland

Changing Baltic Sea military threats

4/2010 Nikita Lomagin Professor World Economy Department, St.Petersburg State University Russia

Medvedev’s fourteen points – any added value for global security?

4/2010 Peter F. Johnston Strategic Analyst Defence Research and Development Canada – Centre for Operational Research and Analysis Canada

Arctic energy resources and security

4/2010 Timo Hellenberg Dr., Executive Director Hellenberg International Finland

How to secure the Arctic – more joint exercises, less high level declarations

4/2010 Katarzyna Zysk Dr., Senior Fellow Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies Norway

Visiting Research Scholar The U.S. Naval War College, Center for Naval Warfare Studies USA

Russian perspectives on Arctic security

4/2010 Teemu Palosaari Research Fellow Tampere Peace Research Institute University of Tampere Finland

Ice melts, peace prevails. The race for resources in the Arctic?

4/2010 Joan Nymand Larsen

Senior Scientist Stefansson Arctic Institute Iceland

Northern economies in a time of change

4/2010 Timo Koivurova LL.D., Research professor, director Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre University of Lapland Finland

Who should be governing the Arctic?

4/2010 Tatiana Romanova Dr, Associate Professor School of International Relations St. Petersburg State University School of International Politics and International Economics Higher School of Economics Russia

Russia in the Arctic area ­ more issues than it seems?

4/2010 Roderick Kefferpütz Associate Research Fellow Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Belgium

Putting Russia’s Arctic policy into perspective

4/2010 Yrjö Myllylä Managing Director, Doctor of Social Sciences RD Aluekehitys Oy Finland

Russia's geopolitical focus has moved to the North ­ the development of Murmansk region in the light of three scenarios

244

4/2010 Amelia Hadfield Professor of European Affairs Vrije Universiteit Brussels

Senior Research Fellow Institute for European Studies Belgium

Arctic adventures ­ cold shoulder or hot prospects?

4/2010 Anna Sirina Senior Researcher Department for Siberian and Northern Studies Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Indigenous peoples of the North in Russian politics today

4/2010 Eini Laaksonen Research Associate Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics Finland

The uncertain future of the Shtokman gas field project in the Barents Sea

4/2010 Sami Andoura Research Fellow Notre Europe France

Towards a European Energy Community ­ an opportunity for the Baltic

4/2010 Dmitry V. Vasilenko

Dr., Vice-Rector on International Relations St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance

Head of Organizing committee of the International scientific conference “Energetika XXI: economy, policy, ecology” Russia

The EU gas market ­ doomed to Kalakh game

4/2010 Susanne Oxenstierna

Doctor of Economics Senior Researcher Swedish Defence Research Agency Stockholm

The Russian nuclear renaissance

4/2010 Peter Lund Professor Aalto University School of Science and Technology Finland

It is time to think more with brain than muscles in the Baltic Sea Region energy debate

4/2010 Asta Salmi Professor of International Business, Aalto University School of Economics

Programme Manager for the Research Programme on Business Know-how, Academy of Finland Finland

Innovations and Finnish–Russian research co-operation

4/2010 Juha Väätänen Professor, International business & transitional economies Academic Director, Global Management of Innovation and Technology - Master’s Degree Programme

Faculty of Technology Management Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) Finland

How do Russian companies innovate?

245

4/2010 Kristiina Helenius Managing Director AmCham Finland

It’s time to step up FDI efforts

4/2010 Ralph Hirdina

Thomas Jost

Professor of Law

Professor of Economics

University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg

Germany

German investment in the Baltic States

4/2010 Tauno Taajamaa Managing Director FINTRA Finland

We should know how to do business with Russia – but do we really?

4/2010 Andrei A. Tatarinov Dr. Economics, Professor Department of Finance and Credit Sochi State University for Tourism and Recreation

Head of Laboratory of Regional Economics Sochi Research Centre Russian Academy of Sciences Russian Federation

Olympic winter games in Sochi – costs and expected benefits

4/2010 Kimmo Rentola Professor of Contemporary History University of Turku Finland

Post-Cold War politics of history

3/2010 Máire Geoghegan-Quinn

Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science

The European Commission's Europe 2020 vision for research and innovation

3/2010 Tõnis Lukas Minister of Education and Research Estonia

R&D in Estonia – capacity building in progress

3/2010 Mitro Repo MEP European Parliament

The Baltic Sea – at the cross roads of politics and religion

3/2010 Mart Laar Member of the Estonian Parliament Estonia

Estonia joins Euro zone

3/2010 Susanna Huovinen Representative (Social Democrat) Chair of the Environment Committee Parliament of Finland

The Baltic needs intensive measures

3/2010 Christina Gestrin MP Finland

Broad parliamentary support for Baltic Sea Region initiatives

3/2010 Alexander Prokhorenko

Chairman of the Committee for External Relations Saint Petersburg Russia

We are linked not only by pragmatics

3/2010 Armas Lahoniitty The Finnish St.Petersburg Foundation acting councel Former Lord Mayor of Turku Finland

Turku and St. Petersburg

3/2010 Dmitriy Lisenkov Managing Director RUSNANO Russia

Natural cooperation takes a substantial effort to start

246

3/2010 Markku Mattila

Laura Raaska

Professor, President

Adjunct Professor, Director

Academy of Finland

Science to the rescue of the Baltic Sea

3/2010 Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara

Director General, CEO Tekes – Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation Finland

EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and innovation policy

3/2010 Keith Silverang CEO Technopolis Plc Finland

Creating the world’s first global innovation hub chain: Technopolis is now operating in Finland, Russia and Estonia – and just getting warmed up

3/2010 N Tapani Saarinen Vice President, Business Development Turku Science Park Ltd Finland

Is there a new Finnish Innovation System?

3/2010 Simo Karetie Chief Policy Adviser Trade Policy and International Relations Confederation of Finnish Industries EK Finland

Chinese innovation and it’s significance for Finland

3/2010 Tuomo Airaksinen CEO Invest in Finland Finland

International companies can boost Finland's innovation system

3/2010 Lauri Lajunen Rector The University of Oulu Finland

The University-Business Partnerships

3/2010 Leonid Gokhberg First Vice-Rector, State University Higher School of Economics, and

Director, HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge Russia

Principles for a new-generation innovation policy

3/2010 Gennady Korolyonok

Vice-Rector, Research and Development Belarus State Economic University Republic of Belarus

Trade relations between the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Finland in progress

3/2010

Timur Gareev Igor Denisov

Vice-rector for Innovation Immanuel Kant State University of Russia (IKSUR) Russia Deputy director Kaliningrad Center of Technology Transfer (KCTT) Russia

Development of innovations in Kaliningrad Region ­ general characterization and overview of the perspectives

247

3/2010 Pirjo Vuokko Adjunct Professor Director for Corporate Links and Adult Education Turku School of Economics at University of Turku Finland

Branding the university ­ why and how?

3/2010 Jaak Treiman

Liisa Välikangas

Honorary Consul of Estonia for California

Professor Aalto University Finland

Estonia and the EU – political innovation and the quest for independence

3/2010 Kari Liuhto Leader of the project “Russia’s Innovation System” (Grant No. 118338) funded by the Academy of Finland

Professor, Director Pan-European Institute Finland

Rosnano and Skolkovo are Russia’s best innovation promoting measures, but they are not enough to modernise Russia as a whole

3/2010 Fraser Cameron Director The EU Russia Centre Belgium

The EU-Russia modernisation partnership

3/2010

Oleg N. Misko Sergei F. Sutyrin

Chancellor City Agency for Industrial Investments Government of St. Petersburg Professor, Head World Economy Department St. Petersburg State University Russia

Can Saint-Petersburg meet the challenge of innovation age?

3/2010 Hiski Haukkala Special Adviser The Unit for Policy Planning and Research The Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

The EU and Russia already have what it takes to succeed

3/2010 Igor Torbakov Senior Researcher Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Assessing the prospects of Russia’s modernization

3/2010 Stanislav Tkachenko

Dmitry Tkachenko

Dr., Professor of European Studies School of International Relations

School of Economics St. Petersburg State University Russia

Progress of the Special Economic Zones in North-West Russia

248

3/2010

Valtteri Kaartemo Kari Liuhto

Lecturer of International Business Turku School of Economics Finland Professor Turku School of Economics Finland

The bumps in Russia’s innovation chase

3/2010 Irina Dezhina Head of Economics of Science and Innovations Division, Ph.D.

Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RAS Russia

Big projects as a stimulus for innovation development in Russia

3/2010 Kaisa-Kerttu Peltola

Researcher Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics Finland

Developing the Russian innovation system – potential for increased cooperation with Finland

3/2010 Leena Aarikka-Stenroos

Birgitta Sandberg

M.Sc. (Econ.), M. Sc. (Hum.) University Teacher, Marketing

D.Sc. (Econ.) Assistant Professor, International Business Coordinator of the Global Innovation Management Master’s Degree Programme Turku School of Economics, University of Turku

Commercialisation of innovations requires co-operation and networks

3/2010 Jari Kaivo-oja PhD, Research Director Finland Futures Research Centre University of Turku Finland

Systemic innovation thinking as a tool for breakthrough innovations

3/2010 Tuomas Mylly Acting Professor of European Law Faculty of Law, University of Turku Finland

Does the European Union overprotect intellectual property?

3/2010 Igor Nevzorov Manager Ernst & Young, Legal Services Russia

Main peculiarities of the Russian intellectual property legislation

3/2010 Mika Aaltonen

Michael Loescher

CEO

CIO Research and Analysis Corporation (RAC) of Finland

The perfect storm

3/2010 Christopher S. Chivvis

Political Scientist RAND & Adjunct Professor Johns Hopkins, SAIS”v USA

NATO, Russia, and the future of the European security system

249

3/2010 Tatu Laurila CEO Greater Helsinki Promotion Ltd Finland

EU? Baltic Sea Region? Finland? Helsinki? There are many to choose from, but which one will succeed?

3/2010 Iikka Korhonen Director Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition, BOFIT Finland

Russia’s medium-term growth prospects still uncertain

3/2010 Ivan Korolev Deputy Director Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Russia ­ two years after the crisis

3/2010 Andreas Klein

Catja Gaebel

M.A., Director

The Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s regional office for the Baltic States based in Riga and in charge for the Baltic Sea Cooperation of the Foundation

Nordic Researcher

The London office of the Kondrad Adenauer Foundation

Raising Germany’s awareness of the Baltic Sea region

3/2010 Maria-Elena Cowell Consultant, entrepreneur Vice Group Secretary, Nordic Council Conservative Group

Nordic co-operation ­ fading to oblivion or resurrection through regionalism?

3/2010 Anne Erkkilä Director Centre for Maritime Studies University of Turku Finland

Comprehensive coordination of environmental monitoring is necessary for ecosystem-based management of coastal and marine areas

3/2010 Hardo Pajula Economist SEB Estonia

In search of a narrative

3/2010 Harri Melin Professor of Sociology Department of Social Research University of Tampere Finland

Enterprise´s social responsibility

3/2010 Jarkko Heinonen Assistant Manager, Economist Turku Chamber of Commerce BCCA Office Representative Finland

Business in the Baltic Sea Region­ future perspective

3/2010 Saara-Sofia Sutela

Antti Koskinen

Independent researcher

Independent researcher Turku School of Economics Finland

Increasing tourism in the Baltic Sea Region

3/2010 Andrey Shadurskiy Senior lecturer School of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University Russia

Unconventional gas­ is there a quite revolution and what does it mean for the Russian energy policy?

3/2010 Bo Österlund Commodore (ret) Finland

On energy dependence and service security

250

2/2010 Maria Damanaki Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Making the sea a safer place

2/2010 Sirkka-Liisa Anttila Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Finland

Measures of Finnish farmers to prevent the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea

2/2010 Jürgen Ligi Minister of Finance Estonia

Estonia and Euro ­ continuation of long-term policy of fiscal prudence

2/2010 Arvydas Sekmokas Minister of Energy Lithuania

Changing energy security environment in Lithuania ­ old challenges and new responses

2/2010 Sergei Martynov Minister for Foreign Affairs Belarus

Hopes and concerns over the Eastern Partnership­ the Belarus’ view

2/2010 Jutta Urpilainen Chairman SDP Finland

The success of the Baltic Sea region is anchored to communality

2/2010 Anneli Jäätteenmäki

MEP European Parliament

The EEAS is coming ­ do not expect a big bang

2/2010 Sergey L. Katanandov

Head of the Republic of Karelia Russia

Main vectors of cooperation

2/2010 Heikki Aurasmaa Undersecretary of State Ministry of Employment and the Economy Finland

The Baltic Sea ­ example for the whole Europe

2/2010 Oleg V. Fomichev Director Department of Strategic Management and Budgeting Ministry of Economic Development The Russian Federation

Innovation policy in Russia ­ new trends

2/2010 Vesa Häkkinen Deputy Director Passport and Visa Unit Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

No shortcut to visa-free travel

2/2010 Vilius Navickas Mayor Vilnius Lithuania

Vilnius city ­ for the admirers of modern life and unique traditions

2/2010 Arto Mustajoki Professor of Russian University of Helsinki Chair of the Board of the Finnish St Petersburg Foundation Finland

”Finnish House” in the heart of St Petersburg

2/2010 Lasse Paitsola President and CEO Nurminen Logistics Plc Finland

Those who adapt survive

2/2010 Katri Pynnöniemi Researcher The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Ten-year anniversary of the Russian international transport corridors ­ what lies ahead?

251

2/2010 Sigitas Brazinskas Commercial attaché Embassy of Lithuania in Sweden

Growing role of sustained transport links and contribution to region’s competitiveness ­ news from Lithuania

2/2010 Timo Laukkanen Senior Advisor Confederation of Finnish Industries EK Finland

The Baltic Sea Strategy and economic growth in the Baltic Sea Region

2/2010 Hans-Joachim Spanger

Dr, Member of the Executive and Head of Research Area Peace Research Institute Frankfurt Germany

De-securitize the Russia policy of the West

2/2010 Sven G. Holtsmark Dean of the Norwegian Defence University College Senior Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies Norway

Arctic security – beating the alarm for the wrong reasons

2/2010 Philip Hanson Professor, Associate Fellow Chatham House Russia and Eurasia Programme The Royal Institute of International Affairs The United Kingdom

Russia’s modernization campaign ­ towards a high-tech Potemkin village?

2/2010 Martin Vermeer Professor of Geodesy Aalto University Finland

Sea level rise in the Baltic Sea

2/2010 Philipp Schwartz Dr, Head of the Joint Technical Secretariat Central Baltic INTERREG IV A Programme 2007-2013 Finland

The beginning of the end of European integration?

2/2010 Nils Muiznieks PhD., Director Advanced Social and Political Research Institute (ASPRI) University of Latvia Latvia

Latvian-Russian relations ­ a new thaw?

2/2010 David J. Galbreath Senior Lecturer University of Aberdeen United Kingdom

Minority rights in the Baltic States

2/2010 Vilana Pilinkaite-Sotirovic

Dr. Center for Equality Advancement Lithuania

Limits of Europeanization ­ policy discourses on minority rights in Lithuania

2/2010 Marek Tiits Chairman of the Board The Institute of Baltic Studies Estonia

The Baltic economies after a perfect storm

2/2010 Kirsi Stjernberg Special Planner Regional Council of Southwest Finland Finland

EU Baltic Sea strategy: regions taking the chance – are they?

252

2/2010 Heiko Pääbo Head Centre for Baltic Studies University of Tartu Estonia

Baltic Studies ­ a changing research agenda

2/2010 Pellervo Erkkilä Chairman Finnish- Estonian Trade Association Finland

Finnish investments in Estonia

2/2010 Kimmo Elo Adjunct professor, lecturer of political science Department of Political Science and Contemporary History University of Turku Finland

The Baltic Sea ­ our common mare politicum

2/2010 Nina I. Bohdan Professor Belarus State Economic University Belarus

National innovative system in Belarus ­ glance at the regions

2/2010 Laurynas Kasciunas Expert Eastern Europe Studies Centre Lithuania

Interactions between a post-modern (the EU) and modern (Russia) players of international relations ­ setbacks for mutual integration

2/2010 Kirsi Kostia New business competence through executive MBA programmes

New business competence through executive MBA programmes

1/2010 Jerzy Buzek President The European Parliament

EU-Russia relations ­ getting it right

1/2010 Valdis Dombrovskis Prime Minister Latvia

Latvia’s lesson – from crisis to sustainable growth

1/2010 Mari Kiviniemi Minister of Public Administration and Local Government Finland

Baltic Sea region offers great potential

1/2010 Søren Gade Minister of Defence Denmark

Security in a modern world ­ the example of the Baltic States

1/2010 Sten Tolgfors Minister for Defence Sweden

Common and improved maritime surveillance

1/2010 Krišjānis Kariņš MEP Latvia

The Baltic energy sector

1/2010 Anne-Mari Virolainen

Member of Parliament Finland

Save the Baltic Sea and boost the economy

1/2010 Ilkka Pöyhönen and Minna Martikainen

Rector,

Vice Rector for International Affairs

Lappeenranta University of Technology

Finland

Promising challenges for Finnish economy ­ Russian market and Northern Dimension

253

1/2010 Oleg V. Kharkhordin

Professor Rector of the European University at St. Petersburg Russia

Baltic Sea as Res Publica ­ limits and prospects

1/2010 Maija Palonheimo Director University Communications University of Turku Finland

Education must be marketed

1/2010 Gerhard Sabathil Dr., Director for Strategy, Coordination and Analysis Directorate General RELEX - L EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Baltic interconnections and beyond ­ how the European Commissions works towards energy security in Europe

1/2010 Leonid Grigoriev President of Institute for Energy & Finance Moscow Russia

Happy end of pipeline conflicts?

1/2010 Boyan Kavalov and Hrvoje Petric

European Commission – JRC Institute for Energy Petten The Netherlands

The future role of LNG in EU’s gas supply – issues for consideration

1/2010 Pekka Sutela Principal Adviser, Monetary Policy and Research Bank of Finland Finland

Eurasian oil and gas ­ are perceptions changing too fast?

1/2010 Rafael Fernández Assistant Professor Ph.D. in Economics Complutense Institute of International Studies Spain

Russia’s future gas export capability

1/2010 Roderick Kefferpütz Brussels-based Political Advisor specializing in Eurasian energy and foreign policy Belgium

Gazprom’s uncertain future within the gas market’s ‘quiet revolution’

1/2010 Indra Øverland Acting Head of Department of Russian and Eurasian Studies, NUPI Associate Professor II, University of Tromsø Norway

The surge in unconventional gas ­ implications for Russian export strategies

1/2010 Andreas Heinrich

Heiko Pleines

Dr., Researcher

Dr., Head of the Department Politics and Economics Research Centre for East European Studies [Forschungsstelle Osteuropa] University Bremen Germany

Factors explaining the smooth co-operation between German and Russian gas companies

1/2010 David Dusseault Acting Professor for Russian Energy Policy Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Russia’s Wild East ­ problematising Russia’s gas industry in Sakha

254

1/2010 Mikhail Korchemkin

Managing Director East European Gas Analysis Malvern, Pennsylvania USA

Russian gas exports in 2010s

1/2010 Laura Solanko Senior Economist Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT) Finland

Increasing energy efficiency is vitally important for the Russian economy

1/2010 Vadim Kononenko Researcher Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Russia energy efficiency initiatives ­ a window of opportunity for the EU?

1/2010 Andres Mäe Researcher Estonian Foreign Policy Institute Estonia

Vulnerability in interdependent energy relations

1/2010 Simon Pirani Senior Research Fellow Oxford Institute for Energy Studies UK

Russian natural gas production and exports ­ the outlook to 2020

1/2010 Danila Bochkarev Associate EastWest Institute Belgium

Energy diversification towards the East ­ strategic imperative and operational response to the uncertainty of energy demand

1/2010 Maija Hyypiä Research Assistant The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Nord Stream project – as seen from the Swedish point of view

1/2010 Joanna Hyndle Department for Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic States Centre for Eastern Studies Poland

Consequences of the decommissioning of Lithuanian nuclear power plant

1/2010 Hanna Mäkinen Researcher on Jenny & Antti Wihuri Foundation’s grant Pan-European Institute, Turku School of Economics Finland

Shale gas – a game changer in the global energy play?

1/2010 Anna Kotsalo-Mustonen

Ph.D.(Econ.), Co-founder of the foundation and responsible of the commitment acquiring Elävä Itämeri säätiö, known as ‘BSAG foundation’

‘The BSAG way’ ­ new ideas to rescue the Baltic Sea

1/2010 Pertti Joenniemi Senior Research Fellow DIIS Denmark

The EU strategy for the Baltic Sea Region ­ a first step

1/2010 Timo Kuusakoski President and CEO Kuusakoski Oy Finland

Baltic Sea Region, environment and recycling

255

1/2010 Risto Nieminen Distinguished Professor COMP/Department of Applied Physics Aalto University School of Science and Technology Espoo Finland

Nanotechnology on the northern shores

1/2010 Boris Porfiriev Dr., Prof., Head of Laboratory Institute for Economic Forecasting Russian Academy of Sciences Russia

Economic crisis in Russia ­ specificity of management policy and lessons for economic policy making

1/2010 Jon Hellevig Managing Partner Moscow-based Hellevig, Klein and Usov, attorneys at law, and Avenir Group accounting and consulting firm Russia

Russia’s social model of bureaucracy

1/2010 Aleksei Bykov

Svetlana Vertai

Professor

Doctorate student Belarus State Economic University Republic of Belarus

Challenges and prospects in economic use of local natural resources in Belarus

1/2010 Lassi Heininen Dr., University Lecturer Faculty of Social Sciences University of Lapland Chairman of the NRF Steering Committee Finland

Thematic network on geopolitics and security

6/2009 Sergei Sidorski Prime Minister Belarus

Belarus is open for co-operation

6/2009 Imants Lieģis Minister of Defence Latvia

A Latvian view on regional security challenges

6/2009 Päivi Lipponen Ph.D., Member of Parliament Finland

Us and them

6/2009 Valery Shlyamin Doctor of Economics Trade Representative of the Russian Federation in Finland Russia

Place and role of the Russian-Finnish economic cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region

6/2009 Merja Hannus Secretary-general Finland-Russia-Society Finland

Participation of NGOs in the Baltic Sea area cooperation

6/2009 Nils Ušakovs Chairman Riga City Council Latvia

Riga nowadays

6/2009 Edgar Savisaar Mayor of Tallinn Estonia

Not the western or eastern, but the Baltic Sea

6/2009 Seppo Miettinen Mayor of Lappeenranta Finland

From Saimaa to continental Europe

6/2009 Eva Nypelius Mayor of Gotland Sweden

Gotland – pearl of the Baltic!

256

6/2009 Mikhail Oseevskiy Vice Governor, St. Petersburg Russia

St. Petersburg – the centre of innovative development of Russian Federation

6/2009 Peeter Kross PhD, Rector Estonian Business School Estonia

Challenges for Estonian higher education 1991–2020

6/2009 Olga Shumylo Jakub Parusinski

Director International Centre for Policy Studies, Kyiv Ukraine Expert International Centre for Policy Studies, Kyiv Ukraine

The Eastern Partnership and Ukraine – plus or minus?

6/2009 Bo Österlund Commodore (ret) Finland

Russian oil on the Baltic Sea

6/2009 Jakub M. Godzimirski

Senior Research Fellow Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies NUPI Norway

The role of the Arctic in Russian energy strategy in Europe

6/2009 Bartosz Cichocki Analyst National Security Bureau of Poland Poland

Prospects and consequences of START follow-on treaty

6/2009 Andres Hunt Vice Chairman of the Management Board AS Tallink Grupp Estonia

Travelling by sea has a bright future

6/2009 Pekko Kohonen Development Director, International Business Development Lassila & Tikanoja plc Finland

Russia takes action towards ecological future

6/2009 Ralf Wiegert Dr., Senior Economist IHS Global Insight Germany

The Baltic recovery – anything else but a long hard slog?

6/2009 Peter Zashev Dr. Emerging Markets Research Group Kymenlaakso University of Applied Sciences Finland

Building innovation economy in Russia – big ambitions are build by small steps

6/2009 Irina Yeremeyeva Dr., Associate Professor Belarusian State Economic University Belarus

Belarus and its economic relations with the countries in the Baltic Sea Region

6/2009 Georgy Dykhanov General Director Kaliningrad Consulting Centre Business-Expert Russia

Kaliningrad – unsustainable economy (was growing better and now is decreasing faster)

6/2009 Volkmar Wulf Europa Consultant Langeneslbold / Kaliningrad Germany / Russia

Current economy of Kaliningrad and the situation of energy demand

5/2009 Matti Vanhanen Prime Minister Finland

Baltic Sea cooperation – from strategies to results

257

5/2009 Laine Jänes Minister of Culture Estonia

The Baltic Sea region at the crossroads of culture and economy

5/2009 Sinikka Hurskainen Chair of the Sub-Committee on Belarus of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Member of the Parliament of Finland Chair of the Council of Europe Finnish delegation

Belarus on the road towards the Council of Europe

5/2009 Mikhail Dmitriev President The Center for Strategic Research Russia

Russia’s challenges in the global crisis

5/2009 Kimmo Lundén Journalist Fellow 2008-2009 Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford Economic journalist, M.Sc. Kauppalehti, Finnish Business Daily Finland

The death of print? The challenges and opportunities facing the print media on the web

5/2009 Ulla Tapaninen Professor Centre for Maritime Studies University of Turku Kotka Maritime Research Centre Finland

Environmental regulations are a challenge for the shipping industry

5/2009 Stepan Sulakshin Professor, Director Governance and Problem Analysis Center (GAPAC), Moscow Russia

A view on the world economic crisis

5/2009 Ionut Purica Dr., Senior Researcher Institute for Economic Forecasting Romanian Academy Romania

Expectations on energy and climate change

5/2009 René Nyberg CEO, Ambassador (ret) East Office of Finnish Industries Finland

Transport of oil and gas – safety and security of the Baltic Sea

5/2009 Łukasz Antas Analyst German Department Centre for Eastern Studies Poland

Nord Stream – how feasible is the project?

5/2009 Edward Hunter Christie

Economist The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)

The battle of Nord Stream

5/2009 Jukka Nurminen Underwater photographer Managing director Abyss Art Oy Finland

The Baltic Sea – a vibrant ecosystem in peril

5/2009 Nils Wang Rear Admiral Admiral Danish Fleet Denmark

Climate change and Arctic security

258

5/2009 Clive Archer Emeritus Professor Manchester European Research Institute Manchester Metropolitan University England

Arctic security – zero sum or working together?

5/2009 Lotta Numminen Lotta Numminen Researcher The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Renewed governance is the key for the future of the Arctic

5/2009 Olga Kryshtanovskaya Stephen White

Director The Elites Department of the Institute of Sociology The Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia James Bryce Professor of Politics University of Glasgow The United Kingdom

After Pikalevo

5/2009 Alexander Gaponenko Michael Rodin

Dr. Institute of European Studies Latvia Ph.D. Institute of European Studies Latvia

Latvia’s fiscal system – the need for new approaches

5/2009 Stephen Fortescue Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences & International Studies University of New South Wales Australia

The crisis in Russia and the oligarchs

5/2009 Irina Kobrinskaya Leading research fellow IMEMO Russian Academy of Science Russia

BMD-Day for global security – new opportunities – old uncertainties

5/2009 Jukka-Pekka Bergman

Director, Professor Northern Dimension Research Centre Lappeenranta University of Technology Finland

Do we have enough university collaboration?

5/2009 Måns Nilsson Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow Stockholm Environment Institute Sweden

Towards a European eco-efficient economy

5/2009 Miina Mäki Project Manager / Marine Biologist Clean Baltic Sea Project John Nurminen Foundation Finland

Innovative thinking on environmental issues – the Baltic Sea is in urgent need for protection

5/2009 Toni Ahlqvist Senior Research Scientist, PhD VTT Technical Research Centre Finland

Towards understanding of spatial and temporal differentiation of innovation activities in Baltic Sea region

259

5/2009 Irina Dezhina Head of Division Institute of World Economy and International Relations Russian Academy of Sciences. Russia

Innovation policy in Russia during the economic crisis

5/2009 Tuomo Uotila D.Sc. (Tech.), Senior Researcher Lappeenranta University of Technology Lahti School of Innovation Finland

Challenges and new directions for Finnish innovation policy

5/2009 Anatoly Zhuplev Professor Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, California U.S.A.

Small business in Russia – trends and outlook

5/2009 Maksim Salahub Partner Sorainen Belarus

Recent trends in M&A and privatization in Belarus

4/2009 Mariann Fischer Boel

Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development European Commission

The future challenges of agriculture in the Baltic Sea region

4/2009 Henna Virkkunen Minister of Education and Science Finland

Aspects of sustainable development in education in the Baltic Sea region

4/2009 Rasa Juknevičienė Minister of National Defence Lithuania

Baltic Sea region security – a view from Lithuania

4/2009 Markku Laukkanen Member of the Finnish Parliament Chairman of the Karelian League Finland

Regional cooperation in the Baltic Sea area – the potential of Karelia

4/2009 Mats Hellström Former Governor of the Province of Stockholm Former Ambassador to Germany Former Minister of Nordic and European Affairs of Sweden Sweden

Storm over the Baltic Sea – is innovation a safe haven?

4/2009 Raimo Valo CEO OAO Swedbank Russia

Global financial crisis and the Russian banking system

4/2009 Ingrida Lace Director Communication and International Affairs Latvenergo AS Latvia

Future international challenges of Latvenergo Group

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4/2009 Igor Maksimtsev Sofia Rekord

Ph.D, Professor Rector of Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance Russian Federation Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Chair of International Economic Relations Saint-Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance Russian Federation

Industrial-innovative networks as an opportunity to raise productivity of the Russian North-west

4/2009 Kari Kaunismaa Doctor of Social Sciences, Headmaster Vista School, Paimio Finland

From the red star to the double-headed eagle

4/2009 Vladimir Shimov Rector Belarus State Economic University Republic of Belarus

Republic of Belarus – ways of economic stabilization in the context of the world financial and economic crisis

4/2009 Kiryl Apanasevich Partner at Sorainen Law Firm Belarus

Belarusian anticrisis program – pragmatic conservatism or market reforms

4/2009 Terhi Suominen Secretary General Atlantic Council of Finland Finland

NATO in Finland – Finland in NATO?

4/2009 Marcel de Haas Marcel de Haas Lieutenant Colonel Senior Research Fellow Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael The Netherlands

Russia’s Arctic strategy – challenge to Western energy security

4/2009 Margarete Klein Researcher The German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) Germany

A new pan-European security regime?

4/2009

Timo Koivurova Ismo Pölönen

Research Professor Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law Arctic Centre University of Lapland Finland Senior Researcher Environmental Law University of Joensuu Finland

The Baltic Sea gas pipeline – can we manage it sustainably?

4/2009

Hans-Robert Metelmann

Peter Frank

Chairman ScanBalt

General Secretary ScanBalt

EU kicks the ball to ScanBalt BioRegion – The green valley, the health region

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4/2009

Conrad Stralka Katarina Veem

Executive Director Baltic Sea 2020 Programme Director Baltic Sea 2020

Sustainable management of the Baltic Sea

4/2009 Anna Korppoo Senior Researcher The Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

Russia and climate – on the road to Copenhagen

4/2009 Sigitas Brazinskas Commercial Attaché of Lithuania in Sweden Lithuania

Lithuania – demanded synergy between economic promotion and development

4/2009 Petri Leino Team Leader Arctic Oil and Gas Project Finpro, Murmansk Finland

Opportunities for foreign companies in Kola Peninsula

4/2009 Thomas Johansson Team Director The Sida Baltic Sea Unit Sweden

Time for the next level of cooperation around the Baltic Sea

4/2009 Timo Koponen Director Finnode Russia The Finnish Innovation Center in Russia

Opportunities of Finland in Russian innovation environment

4/2009

Kalman Kalotay Sergey Filippov

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Switzerland United Nations University (UNU-MERIT) The Netherlands

The global crisis and FDI in new Europe

4/2009 Risto Venermo Leader, Partner Russia - Nordic Desk Ernst & Young Oy Finland

Acquisition opportunities in adversity – but don't be late

4/2009 Ville Korpela Managing Director Voskhod Consulting

Reliable intelligence and due diligence are keys to success in turbulent M&A market in Russia

4/2009 Joanna Grudzińska Polish Candidate for the European Parliament 2009 Poland

Role of young people from Baltic Sea Region in rising its potential

4/2009 Silvia Magnoni Project Manager for International Affairs Baltic Sea Solutions (DK), Lolland CTF concept developer and strategic partner to Lolland Municipality Denmark

So far (away), so good – when peripheral communities lead the way

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4/2009 Arno Tanner Dr., Adjunct Professor Population Studies University of Helsinki and Political Science University of Tampere Finland

Human migration to and in the Baltic Rim – past, present and future

4/2009 Anna B. Kisiel-Łowczyc

Professor University of Gdańsk Poland

Poland's trade in the BSR after the EU enlargement

4/2009 Ulla Nygrén Director Library and Information Services Turku School of Economics Finland

The benefit of library and information services to the competitiveness of a university

3/2009 Jan Fischer Prime Minister The Czech Republic

A strategic partnership with Russia remains our goal

3/2009 Astrid Thors Minister of Migration and European Affairs Finland

The Baltic Sea is to remain a safe and attractive place

3/2009 Henrik Lax Member of the European Parliament Finland

The Baltic Sea Region – A bridge between EU and Russia? – EU energy strategy and the Nord Stream gas pipeline

3/2009 Janina Andersson Member of the Finnish Parliament (the Greens) Finland

The Baltic Sea needs reform of European Union agricultural subsidies

3/2009 Juhani Kaskeala Commander of the Finnish Defence Forces Finland

International sea surveillance co-operation in the Baltic Sea region

3/2009 Stephen Blank Professor Strategic Studies Institute US Army War College USA

The future of Russia-US relations

3/2009 Ilkka Laitinen Executive Director Frontex

The Baltic Sea – model for well functioning cooperation and simultaneously a challenge from the Frontex’ point of view

3/2009 Vladimir Mau Rector Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation Russia

Crisis modernisation ― lessons of the past and tasks for the future

3/2009 Erkki Hämäläinen Detective Chief Superintendent Licentiate of Laws National Criminal Police International branch Finland

Security as a competitiveness booster in the Baltic Sea Region

3/2009 Timo P. Nieminen Mayor The City of Tampere Finland

Involvement of the City of Tampere in the Baltic Sea cooperation

263

3/2009 Vasily Osipov The Head of Vyborg City Administration Vyborg Russia

Vyborg Industrial Park

3/2009 Arno Miettinen Mayor Rauma Finland

Rauma - Unesco world heritage town

3/2009 Solomon Ginzburg Deputy Head of the Committee for International and lnterregional Relations and Regulations Kaliningrad Regional Duma, Director of the Fund socio-economic and political studies "Regional Strategy" Russia

Five years in the European Union

3/2009 Maxim Shirokov General Director Ust-Luga Company, JSC Russia

Ust-Luga Sea Merchant port – a strategic port of Russia

3/2009 Alexei Moisseev Head of Fixed Income Research Chief Economist for Renaissance Capital Russia

Russia: the loss of reserves and inflationary consequences of devaluation – the myth and the reality

3/2009 Natalia Orlova Chief Economist Alfa Bank Russia

The second wave of the banking crisis – to be or not to be?

3/2009 Timo Vihavainen Professor Renvall Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Russia on the Baltic

3/2009 Andrei P. Tsygankov

Professor at Departments of International Relations and Political Science San Francisco State University USA

The post-western world – implications for Russia and the West

3/2009 Hans Brask Director Baltic Development Forum Denmark

Green valley on top of Europe – new and strong initiative can boost energy co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region

3/2009 Lars-Christer Lundin

Professor of hydrology Chair Baltic University Programme Uppsala University Sweden

The Baltic University – a network for sustainable development

3/2009 Jouko Rautava Economist Bank of Finland Finland

Times are also hard for Russia forecasters

3/2009 Philip Hanson Associate Fellow, Chatham House London The United Kingdom

Russia’s crisis budget

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3/2009 Anu Mai Kõll Professor of Baltic History Centre for Baltic and East European Studies Södertörns högskola Sweden

The history of the Baltic States – a minefield

3/2009 Aarno Kotilainen Dr., Research Professor Geological Survey of Finland Coordinator of the BONUS INFLOW -project Finland

Look back – and learn

3/2009 Pami Aalto Jean Monnet Professor Director Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence University of Tampere Finland

Policy platforms for regionalizing EU-Russia energy relations

3/2009 Aki Koponen Dr., Director Institute for Competition Policy Studies Turku School of Economics Finland

State enterprises are still a problem for common markets

2/2009 Andrius Kubilius Prime Minister Lithuania

Lithuania in the Baltic Sea region – a common destiny and shared responsibility

2/2009 Antonio Tajani Vice-President, Commissioner for Transport European Commission

Future challenges of transport in the Baltic Sea region

2/2009 Paavo Väyrynen Dr, Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Finland

Neighbouring area cooperation and Baltic Sea Strategy of the EU – complementary instruments to support cooperation (and sustainable development) in the Baltic Sea Region

2/2009 Jānis Sārts State Secretary of Ministry of Defence Latvia

The Arctic region – shift in geopolitics?

2/2009 Martin Erdmann Ambassador Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy

A vital alliance turns 60

2/2009 Bo Österlund Commodore (ret) Finland

Baltic Sea gas pipeline in Finland's economic zone – project raises many questions

2/2009 Jaakko Smolander Vice Admiral (ret) Finnish Border Guard: Assistant Chief 1998-2004 and Chief 2004-2008 Finland

Finland is developing the European Union's border security

2/2009 Hanna Foltyn – Kubicka

Member of the European Parliament Poland

Do we really need Nord Stream?

2/2009 Reino Paasilinna Dr, Member of the European Parliament Vice-Chair of the European Parliament delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (PCC) Finland

The EU and Russia

265

2/2009 Aloyzas Sakalas Member of the European Parliament Lithuania

The EU's relations with Belarus – how to get things moving?

2/2009 Ville Niinistö MP, Finnish Parliament Vice-Chair of the Green Parliamentary Group Chair of the Committee for Citizen and Consumer Rights in the Nordic Council

Towards a sustainable and secure energy policy in the Baltic Sea region

2/2009 Bernhard Vogel Dr, Chairman The Konrad Adenauer Foundation Germany

The Baltic Sea region is crucial to the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation

2/2009 Michael Butler Chargé d’Affaires US Embassy Helsinki

Climate crisis requires regional collaboration

2/2009 Andres Lipstok Governor of Eesti Pank Estonia

Estonian economy in anticipation of the euro

2/2009 Thomas Wilhelmsson

Rector University of Helsinki Finland

The University of Helsinki as an engine of Baltic sea research

2/2009 Konstantin Khudoley

Professor and Dean School of International Relations St.Petersburg University Russia

Russia-EU relations

2/2009 Arne Grove Nordic Council of Ministers, Director of the NCM Information office in Kaliningrad Honorary consul of Denmark in Kaliningrad

Energy cooperation within the Baltic Sea Region. A Kaliningrad perspective.

2/2009 Lúcio Vinhas de Souza

Official Responsible for Russia Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG-ECFIN) European Commission

Effects of financial and economic instability in Russia

2/2009 Erik W Helin CEO Specta / VolgaStrap Group Russia Member of the Executive Board Association of European Business, Moscow, Russia

Managing Business in today’s crises environment in Russia vs 1998 – a view from the field

2/2009 Miklos Losoncz Jean Monnet Professor at Széchenyi István University Győr, Hungary Research Director at GKI Economic Research Co., Budapest

Some institutional factors of securing Europe’s supply of natural gas

2/2009 Alexey Ignatiev Stephen Dewar

Program and Development Director Kaliningrad Regional Economic Development Agency Russia Independent economic consultant Ireland

The South-Eastern Baltic Region as a model for European integration and true partnership

2/2009 Hanna Ojanen Dr, Programme Director Finnish Institute of International Affairs Finland

What role for the EU in Finnish security policy?

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2/2009 Erika Sumilo Madara Apsalone

Professor University of Latvia Researcher University of Latvia

The impact of international financial crisis on capital migration into Latvia

2/2009 Lassi Heininen Doctor University of Lapland Finland

From periphery to world politics – the changing geo-politics of the North

2/2009 Chloé Le Coq Assistant professor Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics Stockholm School of Economics

Russian gas supply and common energy policy

2/2009 Johanna Särkijärvi Project Manager Centre for Maritime Studies University of Turku Finland

Growing volumes of containers and other unitised cargo go hand-in-hand with the concentration of maritime transport in major ports

2/2009 Sergey Volchenkov PhD of Economics Associate, Avanko Capital St. Petersburg, Russia

Specific features of inbound cross-border deals on the Russian M&A mid-market

2/2009 Alexander Gaponenko Michael Rodin

Dr.E Institute of European Studies Latvia Ph.D. International University Audentes Estonia

System crisis of the Latvian society – the reasons, scenarios of development, possibility of overcoming

2/2009 Jarna Heinonen Professor, Director TSE Entre Turku School of Economics

Entrepreneurship and the Baltic Rim

1/2009 Siim Kallas Vice-President for Administrative Affairs, Audit and Anti-Fraud European Commission

Fighting fraud and corruption – the EU experience

1/2009 Alexander Stubb Minister for Foreign Affairs Finland

Baltic Sea Cooperation towards 2020 – serious challenges but bright opportunities

1/2009 Ville Itälä Member European Parliament Finland

Baltic Sea maintenance and budgetary control

1/2009 Antti Kaikkonen Member of Parliament and vice chairman of the Grand Committee, Finland Member of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference Rapporteur of the Council of Europe on the economic potential of the Baltic Sea

Baltic cooperation needs freshening

1/2009 Thomas Mirow President The European Bank forReconstruction and Development

European cooperation crucial as banking sector in the East has to weather global crisis

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1/2009 Paul Vandoren Deputy Head Delegation of the European Commission to Russia

Regional cooperation that works – the EU's Northern Dimension Policy

1/2009 Ari Korhonen Secretary General The Finnish Social Democratic Party Finland

Against the financial recession with Baltic cooperation

1/2009 Wojciech Kwaśniak Advisor of the President The National Bank of Poland Poland

The impact of the international financial crisis on the stability of banking systems in Central and Eastern European countries

1/2009

Oleg N. Misko

Sergei F. Sutyrin

Business Development Director City Agency for Industrial Investments Government of St. Petersburg The Russian Federation

Professor, Head World Economy Department / International Banking Institute St. Petersburg State University The Russian Federation

St. Petersburg's commercial real estate market – some recent trends

1/2009 Perttu Vartiainen Rector and Professor of Human Geography University of Joensuu Finland

University of Joensuu as an active partner in cross-border cooperation in Northwest Russia

1/2009 Jonathan Stern Director of Gas Research Oxford Institute for Energy Studies The United Kingdom

The January 2009 Russia-Ukraine crisis and the imperative of bypass pipelines

1/2009 Leonid Grigoriev President Institute for Energy and Finance, Moscow Russia

Forum of gas exporters – design

1/2009 Kari Liuhto Professor, Director Pan-European Institute Finland

Ukraine’s energy lesson to the EU

1/2009 Mia Crawford

Risto Veivo

Acting Head Baltic 21 Secretariat

Adviser to Deputy Mayor City of Turku Head of Baltic 21 Secretariat 2006-2008 Finland

Living up to our promises – fostering a sustainable Baltic Sea Region

1/2009 Chris Weafer Chief Strategist Bank Uralsib Russia

GAS-OPEC – cooperation or confrontation?

1/2009 Hanna Smith Researcher Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Russia and the European Union – partners in energy cooperation or rivals in “Great Game” confrontation?

268

1/2009 Raivo Vare Vice-Chairman of the Estonian Cooperation Assembly Former Minister of State and Minister of Transport and Communications Estonia

EU – Russia – the Baltic angle

1/2009 David Dusseault Project Coordinator Eurasia Energy Group Aleksanteri Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Plus ça Change – infrastructure & energy transit to Europe

1/2009 Laura J. Rantanen Journalist Vihreä Lanka, Green Weekly newspaper Finland

Russia is digging its own grave by disturbing gas supplies to Europe

1/2009 Richard Sakwa Professor of Russian and European Politics University of Kent at Canterbury The United Kingdom

The economic crisis and regime stability in Russia

1/2009 Peter Coachman Director of Russian Operations Technopolis Russia

High-tech response to modern challenges and new opportunities

1/2009 Jukka Mallinen Translator, writer Chairman Finnish PEN Finland

The economy crisis is the moment of truth for Russia

1/2009 Vesa Harmaakorpi Professor Lahti School of Innovation Lappeenranta University of Technology Finland

Sustainable innovation – what is it?

1/2009 Wladimir Andreff Professor Emeritus at the University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne Honorary President of the International Association of Sport Economists France

Is Russian sports economy performing well?

1/2009 Viktor Trasberg Associate Professor Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Head of Centre for Baltic Studies University of Tartu Estonia

Baltic States competitive position in the New Century

1/2009 Vyacheslav

Dombrovsky PhD, Assistant Professor Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies Latvia

Can we revive a ‘Baltic Tiger’?

1/2009 Alexey Prazdnichnykh

Principal Bauman Innovation Associate Professor The Academy of National Economy under the Government of Russian Federation Russia

Business life in a perfect Storm – the first results of a monthly monitoring of the effect produced by the economic crisis on small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in Russia

269

1/2009 Peeter Vahtra Stefan Ehrstedt

Research Fellow Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics Senior Research Associate Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics Finland

Russia’s energy supplies and the Baltic Sea Region

6/2008 Janez Potočnik European Commissioner for Science and Research

BONUS project – Baltic countries lead research for better use of the Baltic Sea

6/2008 Stefan Wallin Minister of Culture and Sport Finland

Mare nostrum – Sea of Culture

6/2008 Bogdan Klich Minister of National Defence Poland

Security challenges in the Baltic Sea Region

6/2008 Sven Mikser Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee Riigikogu - The Parliament of Estonia Estonia

Return of the cold war – mis-shapes and mirror images

6/2008 Wilfried Grolig Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Finland

Germany and the Baltic Sea cooperation – current common challenges and the Baltic Sea Strategy of the European Union

6/2008 Igor Yurgens Chairman of the Management Board Institute of Contemporary Development Russia

Foreign investment in the strategic sector of the Russian economy – fundamentals and expectations

6/2008 Bo Österlund Commodore Finland

Significance of Russia’s Baltic fleet growing. Will nuclear weapons return to the Baltic Sea?

6/2008 Pekka Ruola Municipal Councillor Vice Chairman of the Turku 2011 Foundation Chairman of the Turku Cultural Board Finland

Turku and Tallinn – work together for a better Baltic Sea environment

6/2008 Torsten Wöllert Deputy Head of Unit at the Directorate-General of External Relations European Commission

Bridge over troubled waters? Managing EU-Russia energy relations

6/2008 Agata Łoskot-Strachota

Energy Policy Specialist Ośrodek Studiów Wschodnich/Centre for Eastern Studies Poland

The Baltic Sea as the most important corridor for Russia’s oil exports

270

6/2008 Dan Steinbock Dr, Research Director of International Business India, China and America Institute

Eclipse of export-led growth?

6/2008 Sergey M. Drobyshevsky

Ph.D., Head Macroeconomics and Finance Division Institute for the Economy in Transition Russia

Rouble devaluation – pros et contras

6/2008 Lars Tranberg Rasmussen

Emerging Markets Analyst Danske Macro Research Danske Bank Denmark

How to restore confidence and allow the rouble to weaken

6/2008 Lassi Linnanen Dr., Professor of Environmental Management and Economics Lappeenranta University of Technology Member of Board Baltic Sea Action Group Finland

Double environmental dividend – combining actions against climate change and pollution of the Baltic Sea

6/2008 Martti Lariola Project Director Clean Baltic Sea Poland John Nurminen Foundation Finland

Reduction of nutrient discharges will turn the trend towards a cleaner Baltic Sea

6/2008 Antti Saurama Head of Research and Consulting Services Unit Centre for Maritime Studies University of Turku Finland

Key figures on maritime transports and cargoes handled in the Baltic Sea ports in 2007, compiled by the Baltic Port List

6/2008 Kirsi-Maarit Poljatschenko

M.A. Finland

Containerized cargo market of the Baltic Sea and future of Mother Russia

6/2008 Wolfram Schrettl Professor of Economics Department of Economics Director of Economics Institute for East European Studies Free University Berlin Germany

EU and Russia – are there limits to “common values”?

6/2008 Urmas Varblane Professor of International Economy University of Tartu Estonia

Why are economies of Estonia and Iceland different?

6/2008 Filip Hamro-Drotz Communications Coordinator Confederation of Finnish Industries EK Finland

Priorities of business for the EU’s Baltic Sea Strategy

271

6/2008 Rünno Lumiste Robert Pefferly Alari Purju

Associate Professor Tallinn University of Technology Estonia Associate Professor Estonian Business School Estonia Professor Estonian Business School Estonia

Estonia’s economic development – trends, practices and sources

6/2008 Jacek Batóg Doctor Faculty of Economics and Management University of Szczecin Poland

Virtual Baltic Development Agency – a network for international links and investment spillovers in BSR

6/2008 Mika Widgrén Professor Turku School of Economics Vice-Director Public Choice Research Centre Finland

Paul Krugman and the Baltic Rim

5/2008 José Manuel Durão Barroso

President of the European Commission EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region

5/2008 Paula Lehtomäki Minister of the Environment Finland

Cleaner, safer and brighter future of the Baltic Sea

5/2008 Jaak Aaviksoo Minister of Defence Estonia

Events in Georgia provoke discussions on security in good, old, peaceful Europe

5/2008 Siiri Oviir Member European Parliament Estonia

Gas pipeline to the Baltic Sea – should it come in a civilized way or under the dictate of the big and the powerful?

5/2008 Artis Pabriks Ex-foreign minister of Latvia (2004-2007) Professor Vidzeme University College Latvia

Baltic security reflections in the aftermath of the Russian-Georgian conflict

5/2008 Efthimios E. Mitropoulos

Secretary-General International Maritime Organization

Busy Baltic to benefit from global pollution measures

5/2008 Jari Luoto Ambassador for Baltic Sea Issues Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

EU focuses on the Baltic Sea

5/2008 André Mernier Secretary General Energy Charter Secretariat

A role for the Energy Charter in a new Russia-EU Partnership Agreement

272

5/2008 Timo Rajala President, CEO Pohjolan Voima Finland

Finland is facing major energy decisions

5/2008 Karlis Mikelsons President, CEO Latvenergo AS Latvia

Environmentally friendly for sustainable growth

5/2008 Reinier Zwitserloot Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors Wintershall Holding AG Germany

Nord Stream – making more European energy solidarity possible

5/2008 Viktoras Valentukevicius

General Manager AB Lietuvos Dujos Lithuania

Current and future activities of Lietuvos Dujos AB

5/2008 Seppo Remes Member of Board, the Federal Grid Company, Russia Member of Board, RusHydro, Russia

Russian gas can unite Europe – if we allow it

5/2008 Aleksandra Mierzyńska – Krzysztof Parkoła

Financial Analyst PGNiG SA Poland

PGNiG – trying to be one step further

5/2008 Tapio Reponen Rector Turku School of Economics Finland

Profiling as a key success factor in modern university strategies

5/2008 Markus Ederer Head Policy Planning Ministry of Foreign Affairs Germany

Germany and the Baltic Sea Region – challenges and opportunities for cooperation on energy security

5/2008 Jyrki Terva Consul for Trade, Economy and Cooperation with Neighbouring Regions Consulate General of Finland in Saint-Petersburg

Russia’s ability to use its energy might

5/2008 Tomasz Zadroga President and CEO PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna S.A. Poland

Activities of the Polish Energy Group

5/2008 Yury S. Kadzhoyan Director General OOO LUKOIL-Kaliningradmorneft Russia

D-6 development – dialogue with the local communities and the government

5/2008 Janek Parkman Chairman of the Board Viru Keemia Grupp AS Estonia

Estonian oil shale sector undergoing changes

5/2008 Christian Lund Public Affairs Manager, Energy & Retail Europe StatoilHydro ASA Norway

Energizing opportunities

273

5/2008 Erkki Kotiranta Neste Shipping Oy Vice President Finland

The Russian Arctic is turning into an important energy supply route to Europe alongside the Baltic Sea

5/2008 Jyrki Vähätalo Senior Maritime Inspector Finnish Maritime Administration Finland

Safe and reliable global maritime transport of dangerous chemical cargo via the Baltic Sea

5/2008 Peter F. Johnston Strategic Analyst Defence Research and Development Canada – Centre for Operational Research and Analysis Canada

Al Qaeda’s threat to oil and gas assets in the Baltic Region

5/2008 Arild Moe – Lars Rowe

Fridtjof Nansen Institute Norway

Russian shipbuilding – is a rapid turnaround possible?

5/2008 Urpo Kivikari Former Director and Professor Emeritus Pan-European Institute Finland

Institute’s turning points and highlights

5/2008 Simon-Erik Ollus Adviser and Economist The East Office of Finnish Industries Finland

The global financial turbulence and Russia

5/2008 Rainer Nõlvak Chairman of the Board Estonian Nature Fund Estonia

From Russia, with gas

5/2008 Kari Liuhto Professor, Director Pan-European Institute Finland

EU's growing energy import dependency a major risk

4/2008 László Kovács EU Commissioner for Taxation and Customs Union

EU-Russia customs cooperation − solving border congestion

4/2008 Kaspars Gerhards Minister of Economics Latvia

Economy of Latvia − on the path to stabilization

4/2008 Algirdas Butkevičius

Minister of Transport and Communications Lithuania

Lithuanian transport sector – perspectives for development

4/2008 Halldór Ásgrímsson Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers

Globalisation and the Baltic Sea Region

4/2008 Pekka Haavisto Member of the Finnish Parliament and former Minister of Environment Finland

Baltic Sea as an energy route

4/2008 Kimmo Kiljunen Doctor, Member of Parliament Finland Russian politics

4/2008 Reijo Karhinen Executive Chairman OP-Pohjola Group Finland

OP-Pohjola Group – appraising expansion opportunities in the Baltic countries

4/2008 Anders Paalzow Rector Stockholm School of Economics in Riga Latvia

Challenges facing the higher education in the Baltic countries

274

4/2008 Hanna Lehtinen Head of the Unit for the Northern Dimension Ministry for Foreign Affairs Finland

The EU strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and its links to the Northern Dimension

4/2008 Fraser Cameron – Aaron Matta

Director EU Russia Centre in Brussels Belgium – Researcher European University Institute in Florence Italy

Prospects for EU-Russia relations

4/2008 Kalle Euro Director of Business Development City of Turku Director Turku Region Development Centre Finland

Creative dissent will enhance Baltic business

4/2008 Ole Damsgaard Director Nordregio Sweden

Disparities and potentials in the BSR

4/2008 Jarkko Heinonen Assistant Manager, Economist Turku Chamber of Commerce BCCA Office Representative Finland

Cluster approach as a tool of industrial policy in the Baltic Sea Region

4/2008 Harri Ekebom Representative Protection Fund for the Archipelago Sea Finland

Problems of the Archipelago Sea are self-created

4/2008 Hanna Mäkinen Project Planning Officer Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics Finland

Energy security and environment – energy challenges in the European Union

3/2008 Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Prime Minister Denmark

Energy challenges and opportunities in the Baltic Sea Region

3/2008 Vladimír Špidla EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities

Recent European Court of Justice rulings highlight potential complications for labour mobility, but overall a mobile work force will contribute to a more dynamic EU economy

3/2008 Jan-Erik Enestam Secretary General The Nordic Council Finland

Co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region

3/2008 Anu Vehviläinen Transport Minister The Ministry of Transport and Communications Finland

Logistics unites markets

3/2008 Andreas Carlgren Minister for the Environment Ministry of the Environment Sweden

The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region as a tool for implementing the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan

275

3/2008 Anita Mäkinen Head of Marine Programme, Dr. WWF Finland

More maritime safety for the Baltic Sea – what are the options?

3/2008 Ma Keqing Chinese Ambassador to Finland China

Economic and trade cooperation between China and Finland − mutually beneficial and win-win development

3/2008 Merle Pajula Ambassador of Estonia to Helsinki Estonia

Estonia – the country we are building together

3/2008 Tapani Erling Director-General The Finnish National Board of Customs Finland

Customs administrations and economic crime

3/2008

Risto Ervelä Hannu Elo

Chairman of the Assembly The Regional Council of Southwest Finland Finland Head of the International Affairs The Regional Council of Southwest Finland Finland

Need for a Baltic Sea Region strategy from the viewpoint of Southwest Finland

3/2008 Aimo Ahti Mayor City of Kouvola Finland

Innorail – facilitating the renaissance of railways in Northern Europe

3/2008 Nikolai M. Kropachev

Acting Rector, Professor Saint-Petersburg State University Russia

Saint-Petersburg State University performance in the Baltic Sea Region

3/2008 Olli Manner President, CEO Elomatic Finland

Baltic region strategy for the technical consulting business?

3/2008 Torbjörn Becker Director The Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics Sweden

Baltic Sea neighbors – time to engage with Belarus

3/2008 Matti Aura Managing Director Finnish Port Association Finland

Is the heyday of the transit traffic via Finnish ports to Russia over?

3/2008 Alfred Hecht Associate Director, PhD, Dr. (h,c,) Viessmann European Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University Canada

The ‘Baltic Main Street’ highway proposal

3/2008 Elena G. Efimova Associate Professor St.Petersburg State University

Ports as gateways and hubs of Baltic Sea Region

276

3/2008 Hans Brask Director Baltic Development Forum Denmark

Visions for the future Baltic Sea Region cooperation – an EU avant-garde in promoting the fifth freedom of the internal market?

3/2008 Kari Liuhto Director Pan-European Institute Finland

The many challenges of the Baltic Sea Region

2/2008 Ján Figel’ European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth

Why we need to modernise European universities

2/2008 Tarja Cronberg Minister of Labour Ministry of Employment and the Economy Finland

We need a Baltic Sea Stern Review

2/2008 Maciej Nowicki Minister of Environment Ministry of Environment Poland

Is Poland really the biggest polluter of the Baltic Sea?

2/2008 Saara Kankaanrinta Co-founder of the Foundation for a Living Baltic Sea /Baltic SeaAction Group (BSAG) Finland

Saving the Baltic Sea with public-private cooperation, result-orientated actions

2/2008 Aliaksandr Milinkevich

Chairman Movement for Freedom Belarus

Belarus and Baltic Sea Region — common interests and challenges

2/2008 Erkki Kotiranta Vice President Neste Shipping Ltd Finland

Shipping of oil products in the Baltic region

2/2008 Kari Raivio Chancellor University of Helsinki Finland

University reform — a global phenomenon

2/2008 Maria Tengroth Policy Manager Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Southern Sweden Sweden

Ranking of Swedish higher education institutions

2/2008 Niina Nummela Professor, International Business Turku School of Economics Finland

Finnish SMEs in the Baltic Sea Region — growth potential and challenges

2/2008 Žaneta Ozoliņa Professor University of Latvia Latvia

Searching for a new leadership in the Baltic Sea Region

2/2008 Tapio Välinoro Executive Director Regional Council of Kymenlaakso Finland

The third stage of regional economy — integration of the east and west

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2/2008 Alexei Prazdnichnykh

Principal Bauman Innovation Associate Professor Academy of National Economy under the Government (Moscow) Russia

Leningrad region — capitalizing geographical advantage

2/2008 Mika Akkanen Manager of International Affairs City of Turku Finland

Today’s possibilities for city twinning relationships in the Baltic Sea Region

2/2008 Vladimir Kuzin Head The strategic planning department of socio-economic development of the Kaliningrad region Russia

The role of the special economic zones in attracting foreign investment to the Kaliningrad region

2/2008 Arto Luukkanen Adjunct Professor of Russian Studies Renvall Institute University of Helsinki Finland

Medvedev´s new agenda for Russia — reforming a system that can not be reformed?

1/2008 Andrus Ansip Prime Minister Estonia

Estonia’s development perspectives

1/2008 Joe Borg European commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs

A new European Policy: the Integrated Maritime Policy, an ocean of opportunity for Europe

1/2008 Yegor Gaidar Director of the Institute for the Economy in Transition Former Prime Minister of Russia

Europe and Russia, new relations

1/2008 Jan Egeland Director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Former UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs

Affluent Baltic region must increase its assistance

1/2008 Matti Halmesmäki President and CEO, Kesko Kesko – a retail specialist

1/2008 Hans Brask Director, Baltic Development Forum, Denmark

The State of the Region Report

1/2008

Timo Karttinen Pirja Heiskanen

Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Fortum Corporation Vice President Russian Generation Business, Fortum Power and Heat

Market-based investment into Russian power sector

1/2008 Tatiana Romanova Dr., Associate Professor at the Department of European Studies School of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Energy and transport into the Northern Dimension?: Russian perspectives

1/2008 Aku Sorainen Managing Partner at Sorainen, Finland Managing a modern business law firm through values in the Baltic States

1/2008 Iwona Wiśniewska Senior Researcher Center for Eastern Studies Poland

State corporations – state property in de facto private hands

278

1/2008 Urpo Kivikari Professor Emeritus Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics

EU and Russia as neighbours and partners – the specific role of the Baltic Sea Region

1/2008 Alari Purju Professor, Estonian Business School, Estonia Transit trade through Estonia: problems and developments

1/2008 Tomasz Dolegowski Associate professor, World Economy Faculty, SGH - Warsaw School of Economics Poland

SGH – Warsaw School of Economics and the Baltic Region

1/2008 Samu Numminen Project manager, Southwest Finland Regional Environment Centre Pro Saaristomeri Coastal Forum

Coastal management and regional cooperation in saving the Baltic Sea

1/2008 Wojtek Dorabialski Adviser to the President Office of Competition and Consumer Protection Poland

Can competition protection in Poland become more effective?

1/2008 Kari Liuhto Professor, Director Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics

Future of the EU-Russia relations

6/2007 Ene Ergma President The Parliament of Estonia

The Baltic Sea Region: the region in global competition

6/2007 Gediminas Kirkilas Prime Minister Lithuania

Think neighbourly, create value added

6/2007 Benita Ferrero-Waldner

Member of the European Commission European Neighbourhood Policy

6/2007 Jyri Häkämies Minister of Defence, Finland Nordic-Baltic defence cooperation

6/2007 Christopher Beazley Member of the European Parliament A EU-Strategy for the Baltic Sea region: making a success of the 2004 enlargement

6/2007 Henrik Lax Member of the European Parliament Elections in Russia - what turn in the relations to the EU?

6/2007 Pertti Salolainen Minister, Member of the Parliament of Finland, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee

The Baltic Sea – beauty in serious danger

6/2007 Blanka Kalinova Senior Economist Investment Division, OECD

Investment climate in Russia: a Russian paradox?

6/2007 Seppo Remes UES, Member of the Board EOS Russia, Chairman of the Board Russia

Russia forerunning EU in power sector forum

6/2007 Kalman Kalotay United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Switzerland

A Baltic perspective on OMV’s bid for MOL

6/2007 Pertti Lintunen Mayor Town of Imatra

Imatra – a Finnish border town in the economic region of St. Petersburg

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6/2007 Marek Menkiszak Head of the Russian Department Centre for Eastern Studies Poland

Russia's policy towards Central – Eastern Europe after the EU enlargement

6/2007 Yrjö Myllylä An expert on regional foresight Oy Aluekehitys RD

Russia tries to control the transport routes of its own products itself

6/2007 Antoni Kukliński Professor, Poland Baltic Europe 2050 challenges of the future, heritage of the past

6/2007 Pirjo Vuokko Director, Adjunct Professor TSE exe, Turku School of Economics

Management challenges - what is in the air?

5/2007 Günter Verheugen Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry

Baltic Sea region – at the head of the reform process

5/2007 Petras Vaitiekūnas Minister of Foreign Affairs Lithuania European solidarity is the best investment into the future

5/2007 Ingibjörg Sólrún Gísladóttir

Minister for Foreign Affairs Iceland

Iceland and her companies in the Baltic Sea region

5/2007 Jaanus Tamkivi Minister of the Environment Estonia

Estonia protects the Baltic Sea along with its neighbours

5/2007 Ojārs Kalniņš Director, The Latvian Institute A Baltic Sea Strategy – acting regionally, thinking globally

5/2007 Jerzy Samborski Executive Director, European Enterprise Institute, Belgium

What Europe has done for competition

5/2007 Urve Tiidus Mayor of Kuressaare Estonia

Islands are part of the main

5/2007 Eeva-Liisa Poutanen

Director General , Finnish Institute of Marine Research

The Baltic Sea – threats and expectations

5/2007 Pauliina Kainulainen

Doctor of Theology How can we find the motivation required to protect the Baltic Sea?

5/2007 Eero O. Kasanen Rector, Helsinki School of Economics HSE expanding operations in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region

5/2007 Paula Lindroos Director, PhD, Centre for Continuing Education, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Senior Adviser to the Finnish Lead Party for Baltic21 Education

Connecting competitiveness and regional sustainable development

5/2007 Horst Brezinski Professor, Dr., TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany

The new law on special economic zones (SEZ): A better catalyst for the region of Kaliningrad ?

5/2007 Matti Nojonen Post-doc researcher, Pan-European Institute China’s ’Go-abroad’ strategy and the case of Baltic Sea region

5/2007 Matti Palo Doctor, Independent scientist High export duties for roundwood in Russia?

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5/2007 Atso Uusiaho CEO Ice Advisors Ltd

Increasing traffic in the Gulf of Finland presents challenges for winter navigation

5/2007 Bo Österlund Commodore Finland

Safe seaway connections are our life blood

4/2007 Stavros Dimas European Commissioner for the Environment The European Union's role in protecting the environment of the Black Sea region

4/2007 Ainārs Šlesers Minister of Transport of the Republic of Latvia

Latvia – transit land and destination

4/2007 Piia-Noora Kauppi Member of the European Parliament (EPP-ED Group)

May the Baltic way be the European way

4/2007 Antti Peltomäki Deputy Director-General, Information Society and Media DG European Commission

I regard myself as a son of the Baltic Sea

4/2007 Yury Savenko Head of the City of Kaliningrad, Mayor of the City

Kaliningrad is the city to invest in

4/2007 Raimo Väyrynen Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs

The Baltic Sea in the new strategic context

4/2007 Paavo Okko Professor of Economics Turku School of Economics

The Baltic Sea Region as an arena for income level convergence

4/2007 Hans Dalborg Chairman, Nordea Nordea plans for growth in the Baltic Rim markets

4/2007 Hannu Penttilä CEO of Stockmann Group President of the International Association of Department Stores

Stockmann has succeeded in internationalisation of its department store operation

4/2007 Paavo Wihuri Director of Maritime Safety and Security, Finnish Maritime Administration

Safety on the Baltic Sea and protection of the marine environment - risk anticipation

4/2007 Christian Ramberg Managing Director, Port of Turku Trends and challenges for ports in the Baltic Sea region

4/2007 Harry Piela Member of the Executive Committee, Finnish-Lithuanian Trade Association

The changing role of the trade association

4/2007 Veikko Kärnä M. Sc. (Economics) A new mesostructure for Russian mining industry

4/2007 John JA Burke Principal European Institute of Law and Finance

Corporate governance in Estonia: Intact despite 2007 amendment to Commercial Code

3/2007 Olli Rehn Member of the European Commission Patience is virtue in EU-Russia relations

3/2007 Juhan Parts Minister of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia

The future of Estonian economy and economic policy

3/2007 Andrei Yeudachenka Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus

The role of Belarus in the Baltic Sea region

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3/2007 Alexander Rumyantsev

Ambassador of Russia to Finland Russian-Finnish neighbouring area cooperation

3/2007 Satu Hassi Member of the European Parliament 4 times Chernobyl on the shorelines of the Baltic Sea

3/2007 Kurt Bodewig Member of the German Bundestag, Chairman of the Baltic Sea Forum

Metropolitan centres of the Baltic region

3/2007 Jussi Pajunen Lord Mayor of Helsinki Helsinki and regional challenges in the Baltic Sea region

3/2007 Valery Serdyukov Governor of the Leningrad Region The Leningrad region – is an investment magnet

3/2007 Juhani Korpela Former Secretary General of Finland’s Ministry of Transport and Communications, operates within the context of TEDIM

Progress in logistics cooperation between the European Union and Russia

3/2007 Nina Oding Leontif Centre, St Petersburg Updating St. Petersburg economy: new heights, old problems

3/2007 Tuomas Mikkola Liaison Manager of Pilot Turku Ltd The Turku region is a junction point for Scandinavian and Baltic transport – a bridgehead between east and west

3/2007 Juha Kaskinen Director, Dr. Soc. Sc. Finland Futures Research Centre Turku School of Economics

Climate change and futures of Baltic Sea

3/2007 Magnus Ericsson Chairman and founder Raw Materials Group Towards a Baltic mining cluster

3/2007 Christer Pursiainen Senior Research Fellow Nordregio – Nordic centre for Spatial Development Stockholm

How to improve the EU’s economic and trade strategies towards Russia?

3/2007 Valtteri Kaartemo Research Associate, Pan-European Institute Beware: dragons out of cage

2/2007 Danuta Hübner Member of the European Commission in Charge of Regional Policy

The Baltic Sea cooperation

2/2007 German Gref Minister of Economic Development and Trade, The Russian Federation

Russia’s role in the Baltic region

2/2007 Michal Sewerynski Minister of Science and Higher Education, Poland

Structural funds and perspectives for Polish science

2/2007 Eija-Riitta Korhola Member of the European Parliament The Baltic Sea needs to be politicized

2/2007 Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

Chairman, Baltic Development Forum Branding the Baltic Sea Region: “Just do it”

2/2007 Antti Herlin Chairman, the Confederation of Finnish Industries, Elinkeinoelämän keskusliitto

The Baltic Economic Area represents a major opportunity for Finnish industry

2/2007 Teija Tiilikainen Director, The University of Helsinki Network for European Studies

The challenges of the EU’s Baltic Sea strategy

2/2007 Amelia Hadfield Lecturer in European International Relations, University of Kent

Nuclear energy in the Baltic-3: Dilemmas and determination

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2/2007 Tadeusz Palmowski Professor, University of Gdańsk TriCity – Kaliningrad – Baltic Europol?

2/2007 Alvydas Medalinskas

Director, International Policy Centre, Vilnius Challenges to the efficient EU border with Russia at the Kaliningrad enclave: A view from Lithuania

2/2007 Antti Saurama Head of Research and Consulting Services Unit, Centre for Maritime Studies, University of Turku

Maritime transports and their future prospects in the Baltic Sea Region

2/2007 Kristian Nygaard Senior Consultant, International Tourist Consultants, ITC

Kaliningrad and the benefits of gambling

2/2007 Nikita Lomagin Professor, Department of World Economy, St. Petersburg State University

Quiet Russia: St. Petersburg as a mirror of Putin’s political stabilisation

2/2007 Kari Liuhto Director, Pan-European Institute (PEI), Turku School of Economics

St. Petersburg: The most important foreign city for the Finnish economy

1/2007 Andris Piebalgs Member of the European Commission in Charge of Energy

Energy policy for Europe: current energy issues in the Baltic States

1/2007 Mauri Pekkarinen Minister of Trade and Industry, Finland Lessons from the Finnish presidency of the autumn 2006

1/2007 Heidi Hautala The chairperson of the Green parliamentary group in the Finnish Parliament, the founding member of the EU-Russia Centre

The Baltic Sea gas pipeline - power or partnership?

1/2007 Valentina Matvienko

The Governor of the City of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg – the leader of Russian modernisation

1/2007 Aleksi Randell Chairman, City Executive Board of Turku, Vice-president, Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC)

Protection of the Baltic Sea urgent task: local actors have key role in EU maritime policy

1/2007 Jari Luukkonen Conservation Director, WWF Finland Let's save the Baltic Sea!

1/2007 Madis Habakuk Rector, Estonian Business School The effect of labour shortage on Estonian enterprises

1/2007 Stanislav Tkachenko

Dr., Vice-Rector, Saint-Petersburg State University

The economy of Saint-Petersburg – recent trends

1/2007 Carsten Schymik Dr., Department for Northern European Studies, Baltic Sea School, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

BalticStudyNet – promoting Baltic Sea region higher education worldwide

1/2007 Kari Liuhto Professor, Turku School of Economics Saving the Baltic Sea: small acts more crucial than grand speeches

6/2006 Antti Kalliomäki Minister of Education and Science, Finland Education and research — Key factors in development in the Baltic Sea Region

6/2006 Carl Bildt Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sweden Sweden’s role in the Baltic Sea region

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6/2006 Georgy Boos The Governor of the Kaliningrad region, the Russian Federation

Kaliningrad region – a new development strategy

6/2006 Sauli Niinistö Vice-President, European Investment Bank European Investment Bank’s financing in the Baltic Rim Region

6/2006 Tapio Reponen Rector, Turku School of Economics The role of scientific research and higher academic education in the Baltic Sea region

6/2006 Niels Mygind Professor, Director of Center for East European Studies, INT, Copenhagen Business School

The Euro-rule for inflation is too strict for the Baltic economies

6/2006 Timo Hellenberg Dr (Int.Rel), Chairman of the BSR Research Network on Civil Protection

Baltic Sea energy roulette: is a survival kit on civil protection needed?

6/2006 Elena Kropinova Associated Prof. of the Immanuel Kant State University of Russia, Kaliningrad

Will tourism become “pole of growth” of the Kaliningrad economy?

6/2006 Tapio Aho Chairman, Finnish-Latvian Trade Association

Finnish – Baltic Trade Associations Case: Finnish-Latvian Trade Association

6/2006 Raita Karnite Dr. (Econ), Director, Member of the Board, Institute of Economics, Latvian Academy of Sciences

Threats and opportunities regarding Latvia’s economy

5/2006 Erkki Tuomioja Minister for Foreign Affairs, Finland The role of the Northern Dimension in the Baltic Sea cooperation

5/2006 Jonas Gahr Støre Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway Norway’s role in the development of the Baltic Sea Region

5/2006 Ilmārs Rimšēvičs Governor of the Bank of Latvia Latvia: new transformation challenges ahead

5/2006 Christian Ketels Doctor, Harvard Business School, Center for Strategy and Competitiveness, Stockholm School of Economics

The Baltic Tigers – An end in sight for the growth story?

5/2006

Ville Kaitila Maarit Lindström

Researcher, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy ETLA, Finland Project Manager, Prime Minister’s Office, Secretariat of the Economic Council, Finland

Experiences of Finnish firms in Poland

5/2006 Juha Beurling President of the Socialdemocratic Environmental League in Finland, Head of the Socialdemocratic group of the environmental committee in Helsinki

The Baltic Sea – The most polluted sea area in the world

5/2006 Lars Rydén The Baltic University Programme, Uppsala University

The Baltic Sea region a forerunner towards sustainability!

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5/2006 Artur Usanov Doctoral Fellow, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Kaliningrad’s industry – a double-headed bird: will it fly?

5/2006 Filipp Kazin Baltic Research Center The city and the state foreign

policy. St. Petersburg after G8

5/2006 Markku Sippola Researcher, Social and Public Policy Unit, University of Jyväskylä

Nordic manufacturing companies in the Baltic States – are they diffusing or evading the Nordic industrial relations practices?

4/2006 Günter Gloser Minister of State for Europe in the Federal Foreign Office, Federal Republic of Germany

Creating an innovative Europe

4/2006 Andrzej Szynka Ambassador, Embassy of Poland in Helsinki Post accession developments in economic relations between Poland and Finland: Challenges ahead

4/2006 Gerhard Lohan Head, Unit Russia, European Commission Kaliningrad Transit: Achievements and perspectives

4/2006 Mikko Pukkinen Mayor, City of Turku United by the Baltic Sea

4/2006 Keijo Virtanen Rector, University of Turku The shared longstanding history of Finland and Estonia provides the basis for EU cooperation

4/2006 Jarkko Heinonen Assistant Manager, Economist, Turku Chamber of Commerce, BCCA Office Representative

The promotion of mutual trade is an important way of developing the competitiveness of the Baltic Sea Region

4/2006 Katja Heiskanen Researcher, Pan-European Institute, Turku School of Economics

Baltic Sea region’s new EU member states increasingly important in the internationalisation of Finnish small and medium-sized companies

4/2006 Kari Liuhto Professor, Turku School of Economics Kaliningrad turns into an EU-flanked tax haven for Asian firms?

3/2006 Andres Lipstok Governor, Eesti Pank Estonia's Path to Euro Area

3/2006 Anne Christine Brusendorff

Executive Secretary, HELCOM HELCOM – creating a new environmental strategy for the Baltic Sea

3/2006 Eufemia Teichmann Professor, Head of Institute of Baltic States’ Economy, WSE, Warsaw, Former ambassador of Poland in Lithuania

European and Baltic dimension of strategic partnership between Poland and Lithuania

3/2006 Esko Antola Jean Monnet Professor University of Turku

Third Wave cooperation needed in the Baltic Sea Region

3/2006 Esa Kokkonen Director The Baltic Institute of Finland

A New Wave of the Baltic Sea Cooperation on the Rise: Focus on St. Petersburg

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3/2006 Gennadiy Fedorov Pro-Rector of Research, the Immanuel Kant State University of Russia

The Kaliningrad oblast and cooperation in the Baltic region

3/2006 Eric Brunat Managing Director, EuropeAid in Kaliningrad Faculty of Law and Economics University of Savoie

The importance of higher education to attract investment and contribute to sustain economic growth and competitiveness in Kaliningrad

2/2006 Per Stig Møller Minister of Foreign Affairs Denmark

A Good Foundation for the Future

2/2006 Alexander Stubb Member of the European Parliament Baltic Window of Opportunity

2/2006 Gabriele Kötschau Director of the CBSS Secretariat Perspectives of Baltic Sea Co-operation and the Role of the Council of the Baltic States (CBSS)

2/2006 Felix Lapin Minister of Economic Development, The Government of the Kaliningrad region

Development of the Kaliningrad Region – New Perspectives

2/2006 Elina Pelto Senior Researcher Pan-European Institute

Prospects and Challenges of the New Law on Kaliningrad Special Economic Zone

2/2006 Juha Nurminen Chairman John Nurminen Foundation

Co-operation and New Thinking Required for Protecting the Baltic Sea

2/2006 Thomas Mielke Baltic Sea Tourism Commission (BTC) Tourism Development in the Baltic Sea Region in 2005

1/2006 Aivars Aksenoks Chairman of the Riga City Council Riga - the Capital City of Latvia

1/2006 Alexei Ignatiev Founder and President of the Association of International Experts on the Development of the Kaliningrad Region

Kaliningrad and the Baltic Sea Region

1/2006 Urpo Kivikari Professor Emeritus Pan-European Institute Turku School of Economics and Business Administration

Baltic Rim Integration - Opportunity and Necessity

1/2006 Marcus Svedberg Chief Analyst Stockholm Institute of Transition Economies Stockholm School of Economics

The Baltic Rim Model

1/2006 Erik Terk Director Estonian Institute for Futures Studies

Futures Scenarios for the Baltic Sea Economic Space

6/2005 Stefan Meller Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland

Poland and Baltic Sea Regional Cooperation

6/2005 Stephan Müchler President of Baltic Sea Chambers of Commerce Association

Triple Trade in Ten Years – a Vision for the Baltic Sea Region

6/2005 Kari Jalas The Central Chamber of Commerce of Finland European Integration is Bearing Fruit

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6/2005 Ralf Wiegert Country Intelligence Group – Europe Global Insight (Germany)

Poland after the Elections: Addressing the Nexus between Fiscal and Labor Market Reform

6/2005 Kari Liuhto Professor Turku School of Economics and Business Administration

The China Phenomena in the Baltic Sea Region

5/2005 Urmas Paet Minister of Foreign Affairs, The Republic of Estonia

More Than a Decade of Purposeful Economic Policy

5/2005 Ville Itälä Member of the European Parliament, Vice-President of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats

New Impetus for the Baltic Sea Co-operation

5/2005 Johnny Åkerholm President and CEO, The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB)

Why a Baltic Sea Economic Region?

5/2005 Tomas Hanell Research Fellow, Nordregio – Nordic Centre for Spatial Development

Spatial Polarisation of the Baltic Sea Region

4/2005 Kęstutis Daukšys Minister of Economy, Republic of Lithuania Lithuania – Ambitious Plans in the New Space

4/2005 Mart Sörg Chairman of the Board of Eesti Pank, Professor of Money and Banking of the University of Tartu, Head of Institute of Finance and Accounting

Baltic Banking is Modern and Concentrated

4/2005 Juha Savo – Hannu Elo

Executive Director – Senior Adviser, Regional Council of Southwest Finland

The Position of Southwest Finland as a Baltic Growth Centre

3/2005 Artis Pabriks Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs The New Latvian Role in the Baltic Sea Region

3/2005 Jari Hyvärinen Senior Adviser, Economist, PhD, Tekes, the National Technology Agency of Finland

The Baltic Countries and Integration into the EU Innovation Environment

2/2005 Kari Liuhto Professor, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration

A Common Baltic Sea Investment Agency Could Attract New Capital into the Region

2/2005

Riitta Kosonen

Piia Heliste

Director, HSE / CEMAT, Professor, University of Joensuu

Project Manager, HSE / CEMAT

Finnish Firms Expanding their Operations in the Baltic Sea Region

1/2005 Paula Lehtomäki Minister for Foreign Trade and Development, Finland

The Baltic Sea – A New Dimension?

1/2005 Jorma Rytkönen Group Manager, VTT Industrial Systems, Maritime Operations and Environment

On the Marine Oil Transportation and Terminal Development in the Gulf of Finland

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6/2004 Thomas Laursen – Roger Grawe

Lead Economist for Central Europe and the Baltic States – Country Director for Central Europe and the Baltic States, the World Bank

Doing Business in the Baltics – a World Bank Perspective

6/2004 Hannu Halinen Ambassador Director of the Secretariat Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS)

CBSS and the Economic Cooperation in BSR

5/2004 Audrius Brūzga Ambassador Embassy of Lithuania Helsinki

Lithuania in the Baltic Sea Rim after EU Enlargement

5/2004 Alari Purju Professor of Public Economics at Tallinn University of Technology, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Internationalisation of Estonian Economy through Foreign Direct Investments (FDI)

4/2004 Valdis Krastins Ambassador Embassy of Latvia Helsinki

Latvia on the European Ship

4/2004 Lauri Ojala Professor of Logistics Turku School of Economics and Business Administration

Key Trade and Transport Facilitation Issues in the Baltic States

3/2004 Stanislaw Stebelski Ambassador of Poland to Finland Poland in the Baltic Sea Rim – Challenges Ahead

3/2004 Kazimiera Wójcik Head of the Press Center Information Department Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency (PAIiIZ)

Foreign Direct Investments in Poland

2/2004 Matti Maasikas Ambassador of Estonia Estonian Embassy in Helsinki

The Challenge Ahead – Estonia’s Vision

2/2004 Kari Alho

Ville Kaitila

Markku Kotilainen

Research Director

Research Fellow

Head of Unit

ETLA The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy

Finnish Firms Look Forward to Growth Prospects in the New EU Countries

1/2004 Kari Liuhto Director, Pan-European Institute, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration

The EU Accession of the Baltic States and Poland Creates an Integrating Bridge between the East and the West