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19/04/2013

Valdai Club Middle East Dialogue will Re-Convene in Morocco

4th annual conference of the Middle East Dialogue of the Valdai International Discussion Club, titled “Islam in Politics: Ideology or Pragmatism?”, will take place in Marrakesh, Morocco, on May 14-15.

12/03/2013

Valdai Club and Carleton University held a second joint conference

Issues of commonalities and differences in the Muslim communities of Russia and Canada, as well as problems of their integration into the legal frameworks of their respective countries, were the main topics of discussion at the conference Muslims in Russia, the CIS, and Canada: Cohabitation and Cooperation

01/03/2013

Valdai Club and Carleton University to make another joint project

The conference Muslims in Russia, the CIS, and Canada: Cohabitation and Cooperation presented by Carleton’ Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Department of Political Science, the Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam, and the Valdai Discussion Club is to be held on March 8, 2013 at the Carleton University, Ottawa.

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11:33 24/01/2013
Russia’s Economy: after Transformation, before Modernization

Russia’s Economy: after Transformation, before Modernization

The analytical report “Russia’s Economy: after Transformation, before Modernization” was prepared after discussions at the Valdai Discussion Club Summit held on October 21–22, 2012. The report incorporates many of the conclusions on Russia’s political development contained in the 2011 Valdai report “Russia Should Not Miss Its Chance: Development Scenarios”.

17:00 08/11/2012
Valdai Index 2011-2012

Russia Development Index 2011-2012 (Valdai Index)

The Russia Development Index (Valdai Index) reflects the combined opinion of the world's leading experts on Russia as regards Russia’s political, economic, social, cultural and international performance. The annual poll aims to study changes in Russia’s development trends over a year. It is important that respondents assess not the current situation, but changes.

12:54 19/07/2012
Report Military Reform

Military Reform: Toward the New Look of the Russian Army

The analytical report “Military Reform: Toward the New Look of the Russian Army” summarizes the results of the conference of the Valdai Discussion Club Defense and Security section titled “Modernization of Russia’s Armed Forces and Cooperation in International Security” which was held on May 25-27, 2011 in Moscow.

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Medvedev Seeks to Remake Russia with Silicon Valley in Mind

08:25 17/08/2010

Peter the Great, Joseph Stalin and now Russian President Dmitri Medvedev all set ambitious goals of modernizing Russia. Last September, Mr. Medvedev published an essay entitled "Go, Russia!" that spelled out a new strategy to use technology and innovation to boost economic efficiency.

10:49 29/06/2010

Difficult rebirth for Russian space science

Earlier this month, inside Paris' majestic Grand Palace, Russia was showcasing its cultural and technological achievements.

08:25 25/06/2010

Medvedev Should Look at China’s Silicon Valley

Russia’s focus on the United States and Europe ignores the growing importance of Asia, and especially China, in global science and education. Russians and Chinese share the challenges of building competitive, innovation economies on the remains of Soviet-style systems characterized by separation of research and education.

09:27 24/06/2010

Can A Russian Silicon Valley Rise From The Dust?

The country has inherited a rich scientific base from Soviet times, but it has had trouble drawing foreign investment and commercializing homegrown scientific innovations.

10:55 27/05/2010

Russia Takes a Big Step Into Technology

A group of Silicon Valley venture capitalists who bet on companies like Skype and Facebook are taking a look at another long-shot proposition — that Russia can diversify its economy away from oil.

11:36 03/03/2010

Can a Russian Silicon Valley Spur Tech Innovation?

The Kremlin wants to engineer its own Silicon Valley. In a plan that was revealed in February, the Russian high-tech haven will come complete with new-wave architecture and all the comforts of a resort, a place for Russian geniuses to get together and invent the biggest thing since, well, the Internet. That's the hope, anyway.

09:57 08/12/2009

Russian-Speaking entrepreneurs host Fifth Annual Silicon Valley Open Doors Conference

The only Silicon Valley annual investment conference that brings together Russian-speaking innovators with the prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firms, leading technology, business media and the top US technology companies is poised to celebrate its fifth year of being in business.

 

Stories

SCO summit in Beijing

Russia in SCO

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is one of the most important foreign policy initiatives taken by Russia along with five other countries. Both Russia and China want to reduce the threat of separatism and western influence in the region. Emergence of SCO provoked new international order.

Iran celebrates 34th anniversary of Islamic Revolution

What is Iran's Nuclear Red Line?

Iran has made varying degrees of progress down the tracks—enrichment, weaponization and delivery system—needed to have a viable nuclear weapon. How far will it proceed? One option is to build a bomb and, to show the world its nuclear prowess, conduct a test. But that option poses real risks for the Iranian government.

Pantsir S1 anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex

Russia’s position on the global arms market

The current contract portfolio of Russian arms exporters is worth about $46 billion. Annual exports total $15 billion, and this will ensure uninterrupted deliveries for the next three years, even in the worst-case scenario. The list of the main buyers of Russian weapons is unlikely to change drastically.

CIA agent detained in Moscow

The Tensions Beneath the Moscow Spy Scandal

Why did Russian officials choose to make Fogle’s case so public and then insist that it was unlikely to affect U.S.-Russia relations? The official explanation for this is that Moscow had already asked the United States to stop trying to recruit its intelligence officers—which seems like a silly and unrealistic request, since Russian agencies seem unlikely to halt similar steps in the United States—and that officials were frustrated after handling a similar case quietly earlier this year.

 


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