Centre for Monitoring Democratic Processes «Quorum»

The "Quorum", Centre for Monitoring Democratic Processes, takes active part in the international conference "The Modern State and Global Security", passing under the aegis of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev which has begun the work today, on September, 14th, in Yaroslavl.

Near 550 scientists from 18 counties, economists and politicians will take part in the Conference, including the prime minister of Spain José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and the prime minister of France François Fillon. There is in the list of participants of forthcoming conference the former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi, the head of the French institute of the international relations of Thierry de Monbrial, the vice-premier and the Minister for Foreign Affairs of China Tang Jiaxuan and others.

Russia will be represented by known politicians, public and statesmen: the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, the head of presidential administration Sergey Naryshkin, the first deputy of the Head of Presidential Administration of Russia Vladislav Surkov, the director of the "Quorum" Center for Monitoring Democratic Processes, Alexey Kochetkov, the director of Center "Aspect" Georgiy Fedorov, Sergey Mironov and Boris Gryzlov, Sergey Sobjanin, Sergey Lavrov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Gennady Zyuganov, the president of Ingushetia Junus-Bek Evkurov, governors of the Kaliningrad and Kemerovo areas Georgiy Boos and Aman Tuleyev and others.

For illumination of their activity on conference it is accredited about 500 journalists representing various Russian and foreign mass-media.

It is planned that visitors will take part in plenary session of conference on which each of them will act with the report. There is four sections of the Conference — «Social responsibility of the modern state as the factor of global stability», «The Modern state: variety of democratic experience», «Interstate cooperation and efficiency of global institutes» and «The Modern state against terrorism, separatism and xenophobia».

In the Kremlin count that the forum becomes traditional. As the governor of Yaroslavl region Sergey Vahrukov, «in struggle against modern calls and threats has declared at opening ceremony of a forum, it is necessary to concentrate on the questions providing global safety», therefore, as he said, «it is necessary to reflect on new platforms for development of decisions».

In turn, the chairman of board of Institute of modern development Igor Jurgens has declared that «discussion is taken out on the international level» for what, as he said, «the best forces from Russia and from abroad» are involved.

The Conference organizers are the Public Planning Institute, the Institute of Contemporary Development and Yaroslavl Demidov State University. They hope that discussions will carry practical, instead of scientific character, as in the course of work is planned to develop decisions on how to build the postcrisis world what will be procedures of creation of new international institutes what should be democratic standards of modern statehood, and also — what variety of democratic models.

The forum passes when the world community analyzes and tries to understand main principles which are necessary for putting in the further work after end of financial and economic crisis, and tries to model scenarios of development of a postcrisis society. What should be the modern state how it should operate that the world became more safe and steady? Answers to these key questions will search at today's conference.

The Yaroslavl forum is possibility of dialogue of the Russian and western political elite, intellectuals, expert community. Relations between Russia and the West endured enough hard time. There were "orange" revolutions where the parties have taken opposite positions; there was a war on caucasus last year where the West originally as a whole has supported Saakashvili, and only after a while began to separate from this support. The western direction of foreign policy is one of the cores for the Russian Federation, and it should be important, significant, on a constructive and basis equal in rights. To build relations on a basis equal in rights, it is necessary to search for common positions, the general values, the general priorities, fixing obvious and inevitable disagreements, but without transforming these disagreements into antagonism. If the basic participants of the international process look against each other as at opponents – that of any dialogue, mutual understanding it is impossible. Such conferences serve this problem – to find mutual understanding, to co-ordinate positions, to understand each other.