This year, CSIS's annual conference on the top challenges facing U.S. and global security will focus on the foreign and security policy agenda for the next U.S. administration.

In December 1991, the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus signed the Belavezha Accords, paving the way for the peaceful dissolution of the USSR before the year's end. Twenty-five years later, two of the three leaders and the chief aide to Yeltsin who gathered in Belovezhskaya Pushcha will discuss the historic turning point.

This forum will discuss approaches for tackling the ongoing "Russia Challenge" from both sides of the Atlantic as the search for a principled and durable policy framework towards Russia continues amidst change in the U.S. and in Europe.

Annual, international forum for the exchange of information and ideas among scholars to stimulate further work and intellectual vitality in the fields of Slavic, East European and Eurasian studies.

Columbia University's Harriman Institute is hosting U.S. and Russia-based scholars of international relations to examine the sources and consequences of growing confrontation between Russia and the West, discuss possible solutions going forward and provide an opportunity to learn from each other’s perspectives.

The Brookings Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative will host a discussion on nuclear arms control choices for the next administration. Following the discussion, the speakers will take questions from the audience.

Three professors from the U.S. Naval War College will present the findings of a survey and debate among NWC faculty about the nature of the Russian strategic challenge for U.S. security and other national interests.