Russia Report’s annual seminar ‘Pandemic Era: Prospecting Russia for 2021’

On January 15, 2021 (Friday), the Russian Research Institute (Director Sang-Yong Lee) hosted the annual seminar ‘Pandemic Era: Prospects for Russia 2021’ online as part of the publication of the annual report Russia Report. This seminar is a regular academic event held by the Institute of Russia in January every year, and this seminar is specially designed to focus on the pandemic situation. Although this seminar was converted to an online (Zoom) format, about 50 Russian experts and the next generation of academics attended and had an active discussion.

This academic seminar, which started with the opening remarks of President Sang-yong Lee of the Russian Institute, consisted of two sessions. The first meeting, which was moderated by Hong Wan-seok, professor of Korean language at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, looked at Russia in the past year by domestic politics (Research Fellow, National Security Strategy Research Institute, Se-ho Jang), economy (Professor Jong-moon Lee, Pusan ​​University of Foreign Studies), and external relations (Professor Jun-mo Woo, Sunmoon University). had time to see.

The 2nd meeting was moderated by Professor Hyun-taek Kim of the Department of Russian Language and Literature, and extensive discussions were held on military security (Kim Gyu-cheol, lecturer at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies), Korea-Russia relations (Hyun Seung-soo, Research Fellow at the Institute for National Unification), and social and cultural (HK research professor, Ra Seung-do). done.