A Public Lecture
Lower Ground Floor, Palma Hall,
University of the
Philippines-Diliman, Quezon City
ABSTRACT:
Apart from campaigns to attract Russian tourists to the Philippines,
scholarly conversations between Russian and Filipino academics, film
festivals, sister city agreements—in short, recent activity between the
two nations that the local media finds newsworthy, how else have the
Republic of the Philippines and the Russian Federation made the most of
their diplomatic ties during recent years? Are current dealings between the occupants of the Kremlin and Malacañang
marked with cordiality? Thirty-five years after officially establishing
diplomatic ties, continuing virtually without negative incident, are
there any signs of relations between the two nations going awry anytime
soon? This lecture seeks to answer these questions, among others, to
spark interest in a largely unexamined though potentially significant
relationship.
PROGRAM
Maria Ela L. Atienza
Director
University of the
Philippines-Diliman
"Manila and Moscow – The Current State of Relations between
the Republic of the Philippines and the Russian Federation"
Nikolay R. Kudashev
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
Embassy of
the Russian
Federation
in the Philippines
Herman Manalo Bognot
Assistant Professor
Department of European
Languages
University of the
Philippines-Diliman
MODERATOR
Ronald C. Molmisa
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of the
Philippines-Diliman
Organized by the UP Third World Studies Center
with the Embassy of the Russian Federation Philippines
