PROGRAMME AND TITLE OF TALKS

8-45   Registration

9.30   Words of Welcome by MARCCH Chairman Professor Donald Rayfield.

9.45   Lord Judd, ex Rapporteur on Chechnya for Council of Europe, introduces morning speakers.

10.00 Dr Zukhra Kharkimova, Deputy Health Minister of Health in Chechnya, will speak on: The present state of Health services and medical situation in Chechnya.

10.20 Elena Burtina, Civic Assistance Committee, will speak on: Psychological and professional rehabilitation in mountain villages.

10.40 Coffee/Tea Break

11.10 Willem de Jonge, Head of Mission in Russia for MSF, will talk on: Chechnya, no longer a humanitarian disaster, but is this progress sustainable?

11.35 Professor John Russell, Bradford University will speak on: Kadyrov, the first 500 days.

11.55 Q & A session (the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions of a panel made up of the previous speakers of this session)

12.30  LUNCH

13.45 Lord Rea, Labour Peer, will introduce afternoon speakers.

14.00 Cerwyn Moore, Birmingham University, will speak on: Assessing the radicalisation and legacy of the Chechen insurgency.

14.20  Murad Batal, Chechen-Jordanian Journalist, will talk on: Islam and Humanitarian aid in Chechnya.

 14.40  Tony Wood, Assistant Editor, New Left Review, will talk on: The spectre of comparisons, Chechnya and the Russian-Georgian war.

15.00  Tea/ Coffee Break                       

15.45   Akhmed Zakaev, ex minister of Chechnya will speak on, present day Chechnya and the broader context.

16.05   Tom Porteous, Human Rights Watch, London, will speak on: HRW’s perspective on Chechnya

16.25 Q & A Session (the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions of a panel made up of the previous speakers of this session)

 17.30 Conference concludes