Immediately following the Sept. 29-Oct. 2 Russia-Latin America International Parliamentary Conference in Moscow—the first of its kind—, the St. Petersburg State University and the Latin America Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences sponsored the Sixth International Forum titled “Russia and Ibero-America in a Turbulent World: History and Perspectives.”
Running from Oct. 3-5, the conference was breathtaking in its scope, as seen in the program, covering a wide range of topics on the history of Russian-Ibero-American relations (Ibero-America, Spain, and Portugal), and on a variety of subjects dealing with history, culture, current affairs, and economics among many others. The conference, whose speakers included academics, government officials, diplomats, and professionals from Russia and Ibero-America, was described as an international platform “for determining the directions of development of Latin America, Spain and Portugal in a polycentric world and the prospects for Russian-Latin American cooperation.”
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov spoke during the conference’s plenary session to emphasize that Moscow intends to continue expanding its relations with the nations of Latin-America and the Caribbean Basin, despite “the difficult geopolitical environment and the obstacles that the collective West is creating,” TASS reported him saying.
