Organizing Committee
Gennady Krasnikov (Co-Chairman of the Organizing Committee) – President of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Valery Falkov (Co-Chairman of the Organizing Committee) – Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Alexander Alimov – Director of the Department for Multilateral Humanitarian Cooperation and Cultural Relations, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Sergey Dmitrenko – Director, Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Radif Zamaletdinov – Director of the Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, Kazan Federal University
Olga Iriskhanova – Vice-Rector for Research at Moscow State Linguistic University
Andrej Kibrik – Director, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Svetlana Rubtsova – Dean, the Faculty of Foreign Languages, St. Petersburg State University
Denis Sekirinsky – Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Svetlana Tolstaya – Head of the Department of Ethnolinguistics and Folklore, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Fjodor Uspenskij – Director, Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Timur Tsybikov – Head of the Department of State Policy in the Sphere of Interethnic Relations, Federal Agency for Ethnic Affairs of the Russian Federation
Igor Sharonov – Head of the Department of Russian Language, Faculty of History and Philology, Russian State University for the Humanities
Kira Shved – Director, Department for Coordination of Scientific Organizations, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation