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In an increasingly more globalized world, where problems of economy, ecology, energy, terrorism, war and peace have become truly multilateral issues, Russia is playing an increasingly important role.

Mr Fedotov will look at issues that we face as a more globalized world and he will shed light on Russia's current involvement on the world stage.

Mr Fedotov has been in diplomatic service since 1971 and has served, amongst other roles, as Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations in New York and as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. In June 2005 he became the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Court of St James’s.

̽»¨Ö±²¥talk, which is open to the public, is taking place in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College and begins at 5:15pm.

̽»¨Ö±²¥event is being run jointly by the Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies (CamCREES), the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), and the Slavonic Department.

CamCREES is an inter-departmental committee, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration in Russian and East-European studies between members, colleges and faculties in the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge.

̽»¨Ö±²¥Department of Politics and International Studies was established in 2009, it provides a new institutional focus at Cambridge for teaching and research on politics in all its dimensions; international and comparative, theoretical and empirical, abstract and practical.

̽»¨Ö±²¥Department of Slavonic Studies promotes international excellence in research and teaching over the widest range of language, literature, thought, history and culture in Russia and Ukraine, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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