PROGRAMME
15th Free Russia Forum
October 10–11, 2026 | Warsaw, Poland
📅 DAY I — October 10, 2026
Closed to registered participants only
15:00–17:00. CLOSED SESSIONS OF THE “PUTIN’S LIST” WORKING GROUP AND THE COUNCIL OF REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES
17:00–19:30. ROUNDTABLE: “UKRAINE’S VICTORY PARTY: RUSSIAN INITIATIVES TO SUPPORT THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE”
Moderators: Nikolai Polozov — lawyer and human rights advocate; Dmitry Semyonov — journalist.
Participants:
Maxim Novichkov — activist, journalist, Free Russia Forum coordinator in the United States, and IT entrepreneur; Anna Stepanova — environmental activist, blogger, and representative of the German charitable organization Interbridge Nbg e.V.; Alexander Shumsky — human rights advocate, blogger, and chair of Interbridge Nbg e.V.; Andrey Kalikh — volunteer; Maria Solenova — founder of Action4Life; Pavlo Zhovnirenko — chair of the board of the Center for Strategic Studies (Kyiv, Ukraine); Olga Kurnosova — secretary of the Forum of the Russian Opposition in Support of Ukraine; Vladimir Zalishchak — politician and municipal council member (Moscow, 2017–2022); Alexander Tipunov— political activist.
📅 DAY II — October 11, 2026
9:30–11:00. UKRAINE’S VICTORY: A SHARED PATH TO FREEDOM, PEACE, AND SECURITY IN EUROPE
Moderator: Ksenia Larina — journalist.
Speakers: Yuri Fedorov — independent military expert; Andrey Volna — surgeon and member of the Platform for Russian Democratic Forces at PACE; Igor Volobuev — representative of the underground movement Black Spark; Zirka— Freedom of Russia Legion; Anastasia Shevchenko — politician and member of the Anti-War Committee; Uriel Epstein — Executive Director of the Renew Democracy Initiative (USA).
11:15–13:00. DISCUSSION: A WORLD ON THE BRINK OF GLOBAL CATASTROPHE: THE COUNTDOWN
Moderator: Konstantin Eggert — journalist.
Speakers: Garry Kasparov — politician and co-founder of the Free Russia Forum; Mantas Adomėnas — Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania (2020–2023); Alfred Kokh — political commentator and Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation (1997); Mikhail Krutikhin — economic analyst, oil and gas market expert, and specialist in Oriental studies.
14:00–14:30. PRESENTATION OF FREE RUSSIA FORUM PROJECTS
14:30–16:00. RUSSIA AFTER THE WAR: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST
Moderator: Dmitry Semyonov — journalist.
Speakers: Dima Zitser — educator and public intellectual; Mark Feygin — politician and member of the Platform for Russian Democratic Forces at PACE; Maxim Kuzakhmetov — political commentator; Ivan Tyutrin — politician and co-founder of the Free Russia Forum; Igor Eidman — sociologist and political commentator.
16:15–18:00. DICTATORSHIPS WITHOUT RULES OR RED LINES: STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE
Moderator: Alexander Morozov — political scientist and political commentator.
Speakers: Gennady Gudkov — politician and member of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (2001–2012); Natalia Radina — editor-in-chief of the independent news outlet Charter97 (Belarus); Evgenia Chirikova — coordinator of Activatica.org; Anastasia Kirilenko — journalist at The Insider; Andrey Korovayko — entrepreneur; Natalia Shavshukova — co-founder of the School of Local Self-Government.
