The 4th Adam Smith Forum organized jointly by the Libertarian Party of Russia and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and given over to a discussion of ideas of economic and personal freedom, took place in Moscow on Oct. 20, 2012, this time housed in the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and […]

Ivanovo, a regional centre northeast of Moscow, was the venue for the 5th session of the Free People Forum with support from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. Even though it was held on a week day the event attracted about 30 participants including a number a journalists. The theme of the day was […]

Khabarovsk – The Free People Forum held its third session in Khabarovsk, in the Russian Far East, organized by the Libertarian Party of Russia with support from the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom and the Khabarovsk Regional Foundation for Small Enterprise Support.   Speakers at the Forum included Alexander Simontsev, […]

The Russian CDs were first launched at the Adam Smith Forum in Moscow in November 2011 where some 200 people took copies. The Forum agenda was broken down into three sections: 1. The Wealth of Nations (economics section). This section will be devoted to economic problems as viewed from the […]

Although there was some distribution of the English CD in Russia it was not until the Russian version was completed at the end of 2011 that interest in it increased. Alexander Kouryaev, Director of the publishing house Sotsium, produced the CD in Russian which contains about 70 texts by writers […]

Dr Catherine Gurling teaches on the Kingston Russian MBA program for the Academy of National Economy in Russia. It was founded in 1977 and MBA courses started running in 1998. A national centre for the training and development of Russian governmental officers and federal staff – nearly 40,000 senior government […]