Panel 1 – The Publication of Andrei Sakharov’s 1968 Essay, Reflections on Progress, Peaceful, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom: Context, Reactions, and Consequences. [also available in Russian translation]

The panelists and their topics were:

• Timothy Colton – Opening Remarks
• Richard Wilson -- The reaction of Western scientists.
• Pavel Litvinov – The reaction of the Soviet intelligentsia.
• Yuri Orlov – The Political Ideas of Soviet Scientists in the 1950s and 1960s.
• Peter Reddaway – The Reaction of the Soviet Authorities.

Panel 2 - Sakharov’s 1988 Essay, The Inevitability of Perestroika [also available in Russian translation]

The panelists and their topics were:

• Marietta Chudakova – The Russian Intelligentsia: Then and Now
• Alexei Pankin – The Russian Media: Then and Now
• William Taubman – The Inevitability of Perestroika?
• William Green Miller – Sakharov’s Contribution to Perestroika

Panel 3 - Sakharov the Physicist

The panelists and their topics were:

• David Holloway – The History of Sakharov’s Work [also available in Russian translation]
• Bruno Coppi -- The Sakharov- Tamm Paper on Nuclear Fusion
• Yuri Orlov – Sakharov’s Explanation of the Asymmetric Universe
• Rainer Weiss - Sakharov on the Anisotropy of the Cosmic Background Radiation

Panel 4 - Andrei Sakharov’s Nuclear Legacy [also available in Russian translation]

The panelists and their topics were:

• Paul Doty – Chair
• Matthew Bunn – The Future of Nuclear Energy
• Frantisek Janouch – Nuclear Energy in Europe
• Evgeny Miasnikov – Control and Reduction of Nuclear Weapons
• Pavel Podvig – Missile Defense Systems

Panel 5 - Russia: Today and Tomorrow [also available in Russian translation]

The panelists and their topics were:

• Marshall I. Goldman – The Russian Economy: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
• Anton Burkov – Russian NGOs, Human Rights and the Rule of Law
• Andrei Illarionov – Russia’s Liberal Intelligentsia
• Thomas Remington – Andrei Sakharov and the Concept of a Democratic Opposition

Panel 6 - Russia and the West: Improving Relations [also available in Russian translation]

The panelists and their topics were:

• Jack F. Matlock, Jr. – Russian-Western Relations: the end of the Cold War
• Vladimir Pechatnov – Russian-Western Relations: a Russian perspective
• William Green Miller – How to improve Russian-Western relations
• Svetlana Savranskaya – Russian-Western negotiations

THE ROUND TABLE [also available in Russian translation]

A general discussion about Andrei Sakharov and his legacy in Russia.

• chaired by Joshua Rubenstein;
• with panelists: Nicholas Daniloff; Loren R. Graham; Masha Gessen; Mark N. Kramer; and William Patrick Murphy, Jr. and
• Closing remarks by William Green Miller

LUNCHEON SPEAKERS [also available in Russian translation]

• Elena Bonner – “We” and “They”
• Tatiana Yankelevich -- From “father of the Soviet H-Bomb” to “tribune of the people”
• Edward Kline – A few words of thanks