Panel 4. The Post-Soviet Eurasia

Prof. Dr. Kerry Longhurst (Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland), “Best of all Worlds? China, Russia and the European Union in Georgia’s Gaze’.” Asst. Prof. Dr. Jessica Neafie and Mrs. Kamila Koshimkhan (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan), “Kazakhstani Public Attitudes toward Chinese Foreign Direct Investments: Survey Experiments, Causal Mediation, and Social Media Analysis.” Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jin Xi (Renmin University of China), “Perceptions of Chinese Scholars on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.” Mr. Akira SANO (University of Tsukuba, JST-SPRING, Japan), “Text Visualizing for Russian Anonymous Chat on Ukrainian War: A Case Study of Views of the US and China in YouTube Comments.” Dr. Gevorg Melikyan (Director, The Armenian Institute for Resilience and Statecraft, Armenia), “Cognitive Warfare: Understanding the Battle for Hearts and Minds.” Dr. Péter Pál Kránitz (Hungarian Institute of International Affairs, Hungary), “(Sur)realities of Armenia’s EU accession.” Conference Chair: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mher Sahakyan (Director, China-Eurasia Council for Political and Strategic Research, Armenia).