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

Program Committee

Andrej Kibrik

Oleg Belyaev

Evgeniya Budennaya

Nikolay Vakhtin

Elena Galaktionova

Alexey Gippius

Evgeniy Golovko

Anna Dybo

Radif Zamaletdinov

Olga Iriskhanova

Maxim Krongauz

Vladimir Plungian

Ekaterina Rakhilina

Andrey Sideltsev

Valery Solovyev

Sergei Tatevosov

Yakov Testelets

Tatyana Chernigovskaya