Srdja Trifkovic, Foreign Editor of Chronicles Magazine and a noted historian of Islam and the Balkans, spoke at IDC's round table on Crimea and Kosovo on 27 May 2014.
IDC's Director of Studies spoke at a conference held in Moscow's MGU state university on the discrepancy in the historical memory of the First and Second World wars.
The Commissioner for Human Rights at the Russian Foreign Ministry presented his ministry's report on human rights in the EU at IDC's round table on 3 March 2014
On 3 December 2013, the Director of the Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy addressed IDC's conference at La Sapienza on "The political structures of the post-Soviet space and their relationship with Europe".