09.30-10.00 Registration of the participants

10.00-10.30 Opening, greetings
Opening Address: Ekaterina U. Genieva, Director General of the Library for Foreign Literature
Alexander A. Serikov, Vice-governor, Nizhnyi Novgorod oblast

I Panel 10.30-13.45
Chair Ekaterina Genieva

1. Representative of the Council of Europe

2. The position of UNESCO towards the principles of settlement of disputes resulting from restitution of cultural property removed during the Second World War
Wojciech Kowalski
(Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UNESCO, Poland)

3. On the work of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation with displaced cultural valuables in the framework of the latest normative-legislative acts of the Russian Federation Government
Yury Titov
(Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Russia)

4. Principles of preservation of national cultural heritage from public collections of the Hungarian Republic
István Ecsedy
(Ministry of National Cultural Heritage, Hungary)

12.00-12.30 Opening of the Exhibition "Trophy Books from the Sarospatak Reformed College Library (Hungary) in the Collections of the Nizhnyi Novgorod State Regional Research Library"

12.30-12.45 Coffee-break

1. Displaced cultural valuables in Nizhnyi Novgorod: professional and ethic aspects
Anna Gor, Petr Balakin
(Russian State Center of Modern Art, Nizhnyi Novgorod branch, Russia)

2. Collection of Sarospatak: history and significance
Dálniel Szabó
(Synod of Hungarian Reformed Church, Hungary)

3. Problems of displaced cultural valuables in Austria
Franz Cede
(Embassy of the Austrian Republic in the Russian Federation, Moscow)

13.45-14.30 Lunch

II Panel 14.30-17.00
Chair Dr. Olaf Werner, Professor, Friedrich Schiller University, Germany

1. The situation in Switzerland and implementation of the 1998 Washington agreements
Andrea F. G. Rascher
(Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Switzerland)

2. New wording of the Russian Federal Law on Cultural Valuables Displaced to the USSR as a Result of World War II and Located on the Territory of the Russian Federation: Problems and Possibilities
Valery Kulishov
(Independent researcher, Russia)

3. The International Law of Returning Objects of Art
Karl M. Meessen
(Friedrich-Schiller University, Germany)

15:45 - 16.00 Coffee-break

1. Review of archive materials of return of cultural valuables from Germany to the USSR and Russia,
Nikolai Nikandrov
(Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Russia)

2. The case of the Turgenev Library in Paris
Hélèn Kaplan
(Turgenev Library in Paris, France)

3. Organisation of informational exchange on the problem of looted library collections
Alexander Mazuritskyi
(Moscow State University of Culture, Russia)

17.00-17.30 Discussion

17.30 Opening of the International Informational Documentary Center on the Issues Related to Displaced Cultural Valuables. Library for Foreign Literature, Main building, 3d Floor.

Wednesday, April 25

III Panel 10.00-13.15
Chair Dr. Karl Meessen, Professor Friedrich Schiller University, Germany.

1. Law on cultural valuables: perspective of juridical application
Andrei Lisitsyn-Svetlanov
(Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

2. Consequences of the London Supreme Court's verdict on the painting of Joachim A. Wtewael
Michael H. Carl
(Eversheds, Business lawyers in Europe, Great Britain)

3. Search of practical solutions and ways out of hopeless juridical situation
Igor Maksimychev
(Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)

4. Executive record's keeping and court's decisions on claims provision.
Hans-Joachim Bauer
(Turingian Court, Germany)

11.45-12.00 Coffee-break

1. Emerging art markets
Christoph von Berg,
(Lawyer, Germany)

2. Search of cultural valuables, lost during the World War II: international, legal and national aspects
Alexander Choudinov
(St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

3. Model of conflict resolution, related to displaced cultural valuables
Olaf Werner
(Friedrich Schiller University, Germany)

13.15-14.00 Lunch

IV Panel 14.00-17.00
Chair Dr. Michael H. Carl, Lawyer, Great Britain.

1. German-Polish relations and restitution of cultural valuables: new approaches
Dieter Bingen, Kazimierz Wóycicki
(German-Polish Institute, Germany, Germany and Northern Europe Institute, Poland)

2. Open culture and restitution problems
Fedor Burlatskyi
(International Cultural Cooperation Foundation, Russia)

3. Koenigsberg-Kaliningrad in the context of displaced cultural valuables
Avenir Ovsianov
(Science and Production Center on Preserving and Use of the Monuments of History and Culture, Kaliningrad, Russia)

15.45-16.00 Coffee-break

16.00 - 18.00 Discussion

18.00-18.30 Presentation of the collection "Putchezh"

18.30 Closing Reception