Roundtable "Problems of protection of rights of conscripted and contracted military personnel at the new stage of the military reform"

PROGRAM:
9.30 –10.00 Registration of participants
10.00–10.10 Introductory presentations
Moderators:
Valentina Melnikova, Executive Secretary, the Union of committees of soldiers’ mothers of Russia, member of the Public Council under the RF Ministry of Defense ;
Sergei Krivenko, coordinatior , the Public Initiative “Citizen and Army”, member of the Expert Council under the RF ombudsman

Issue 1. "Staffing of the RF Armed Forces by conscription and by contract: the current situation, challenges and plans”"
10.10–11.30 Presentations:
- Vitaly Tsymbal, Professor, Head of Division of the Military Economics, IET
- Representative of the Security Council of RF
- Representative of the RF Ministry of Defense
- Eduard Vorobyev, colonel-general (rtd.), Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Defense of the 2nd and 3rd State Duma
11.30–12.45 Discussion

Issue 2. "Protecting the military’s rights in the process of transformations in the military sphere"
13.15–13.45 Presentations:
- Alexander Goltz, journalist, military analyst
- Natalya Zhukova, head of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers
- Maria Bontzler, head of the Kaliningrad oblast
- Representatives of the RF Ministry of Defense
13.45–14.45 Discussion

14.45–15.15 Concluding remarks
Moderator: Valentina Melnikova , Executive Secretary, the Union of committees of soldiers’ mothers of Russia, member of the Public Council under the RF Ministry of Defense