Valdai Club

On April 25, at 11:00, the Valdai Club hosted an expert panel discussion devoted to the Russian edition of a book by Samuel Charap and an international team of authors, titled “Rethinking the Regional Order for Post-Soviet Europe and Eurasia”.

On April 18, 2019, at 11:00 AM, the Valdai Discussion Club hosted an expert discussion, titled “Prospects of Pakistan in Modern World Development and Russian-Pakistani Relations”.

On April 16, the Valdai Discussion Club hosted an expert discussion, titled “EU-Russia: Does Selective Cooperation Work?”

The Valdai Discussion Club and the Indian Observer Research Foundation (ORF) are launching a new bilateral expert project. On April 9, 2019, the Valdai Discussion Club hosted a conference, titled “Indian-Russian Relations in a New Strategic Context”.

India and Russia are tied by a long history of friendly, confidential, and mutually beneficial relations. Since the 1970s they have traded in national currencies. Today, their bilateral relations develop in a fundamentally new strategic context. All in all, Russia and India should rethink their relations amid the global changes.

Such entities as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Eurasian Economic Union can constitute the regional institutional backbone. Building on the existing practices, this session aims at comparing the views of Russian and Indian experts on the future of Eurasia and understanding what spheres are the most important for advancing multilateral cooperation.

Sanctions and trade wars are new factors of international relations. They are likely to become an integral part of the future world and will impact both the global economy and bilateral economic relations, including between Russia and India. This is why it is crucial to discuss the role of this factor today and in the future, to understand how Russia and India can address it.

Moscow and New Delhi are important players on the Greater Eurasian space and their opinion is crucial for tackling the key issues of regional and global development. The goal of the session is to juxtapose the views of Russian and Indian experts on the key trends in the changing geostrategic context.

On April 4, at 11.00, the Valdai Discussion Club hosted an expert discussion titled “Russia-Turkey Relations: the Syrian Factor”, with the participation of the experts from the Turkish SETA Foundation.

On March 29, the Valdai Discussion Club held a meeting with young American and European experts in the framework of Meeting Russia Program. In a discussion with the Western colleagues, Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club, told about the Russian foreign policy.