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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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nato

Aerial view of Afghanistan
Asia

Why Russia won't send its troops back to Afghanistan

05/06/201312:04 The pull-out of a considerable portion of the peacekeeping forces from Afghanistan in 2014 is forcing Moscow to re-evaluate the threats that will emerge on the borders of CIS countries. The situation appears even more uncertain given Afghanistan’s presidential elections scheduled for April 2014.

http://valdaiclub.com/asia/58140.html
U.S. military medics, who came from the Afghan city of Kandahar, go through security before flying to Colorado in the Transit Center at the Manas U.S. Air Force base.
Asia

Russia-NATO cooperation on Afghanistan: Yesterday, today and tomorrow

04/25/201310:05 Russia-NATO cooperation on Afghanistan is coming to an end for objective reasons. If NATO withdraws most of its troops from Afghanistan by late 2014, it won’t need Russia’s help as much. If there’s no cooperation on the Afghan problem, Moscow and Washington will have nothing to show for their partnership.

http://valdaiclub.com/asia/57980.html
Military conflict in Syria
Middle East

Syria As a Mirror of the Changing World Order

04/18/201312:07 The Arab Spring and the crisis in Syria merely aggravated contradictions that had formed a gap between Realpolitik and the observance of the de jure intact norms of international law. Today’s question is this: Is the international community able to take concerted actions or will inflated ambitions of regional centers of power gain the upper hand?

http://valdaiclub.com/middle_east/57680.html
Vladimir Putin at summit of the "Big 20" in Los Cabos, Mexico
USA

Russia, US: Not the time to be throwing stones

04/16/201310:27 Russia and the U.S. should not resolve their differences via international conflicts like the Syria crisis.

http://valdaiclub.com/usa/57463.html
T-90 "Vladimir" combat tank is moving along Tverskaya Street to take part in preparations for the Victory Parade on Red Square.
Defense

CFE Treaty is Dead, Long Live 2011 Vienna Document

04/09/201313:16 The Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty has no future. There are no chances that it can be reinstated on a new basis. The arms control process currently relies on the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), and on the 2011 Vienna Document on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures.

http://valdaiclub.com/defense/57220.html
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets U.S. President Barack Obama
USA

Pausing the U.S.-Russian Reset

04/09/201310:34 Russia and the United States reached the limit of their possible cooperation in the spheres of arms control, as well as on Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, North Korea and a slew of other questions, thus necessitating a new agenda for Russian-American relations.

http://valdaiclub.com/usa/57200.html
BULAVA ICBM Test
USA

How Not to Negotiate with Russia: The Missile Defense Fiasco

04/01/201310:02 Moscow and Obama’s White House view the missile defense dispute through the prism of a broader U.S. political agenda—and disagreements, such as efforts to further reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear forces, Moscow’s continuous support of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, Russia’s lack of real opposition to Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons, and North Korea’s truculence.

http://valdaiclub.com/usa/56862.html
The medium-range RSD-10 Pioneer missile system [NATO reporting name, SS-20], which had three 150-kiloton multiple independently targeted warheads, was scrapped under the 1987 Soviet-US Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Asia

Nuclear disarmament’s Asian pivot

03/29/201310:32 Although multilateral cooperation on nuclear issues has been effective in some cases, such as in ratifying the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, it has been inadequate in others, such as in easing tensions with Iran and North Korea. In fact, even when China, Russia, and the US share the same agenda, their differing diplomatic tactics often undermine their ability to achieve their objectives.

http://valdaiclub.com/asia/56820.html
Центр транзитных перевозок ВВС США на базе "Манас"
Near Abroad

US withdrawal may push Central Asia toward Russia

03/01/201310:40 The balance of power will shift in Central Asia, after U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.

http://valdaiclub.com/near_abroad/55660.html
Sergei Lavrov at RIA Novosti
Russia and the World

Sergey Lavrov: The Russian-American agenda has enough new items

11/13/201209:54 Interview of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey V. Lavrov for the news agency «RIA Novosti», newspaper «Moscow News», magazine «Russia in Global Affairs», Moscow, November 8, 2012.

http://valdaiclub.com/russia_and_the_world/51280.html
 
 
 


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