Opening plenary session 14.00 – 16.00

Building bridges between EU and Russian civil society actors is vital to ensuring balance, progress and durability in wider EU-Russia relations, ALDE President Guy Verhofstadt said ahead of the Boris Nemtsov Forum in Brussels today and tomorrow.

Verhofstadt, European Parliament President Martin Schulz and Open Russia founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky will participate in the Forum’s opening session, which looks at ways to strengthen EU-Russia people-to-people relations and brings together more than 100 representatives of Russian and EU civil society organisations, EU officials and MEPs participating in the Forum’s working groups.