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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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putin

President Vladimir Putin conducts meeting in Sochi
Politics

What drives the ‘nationalization’ of Russia’s elite?

05/15/201311:22 Russia’s anti-corruption campaign looks like an attempt to “nationalize” the state elite by increasing their stakes in Russian institutions. To this end, bureaucrats have been banned from possessing foreign shares, bank accounts and certain other assets. Yet statistics show that the Russian public would be in favor of even stronger measures.

http://valdaiclub.com/politics/58305.html
The Capitol in Washington, D.C.
USA

The U.S. in a time of change: Internal transformations and relations with Russia

05/14/201310:40 The U.S. is going through a painful process of shifting from unilateral global domination towards creating a balance of power in various regions of the world in order to preserve its presence and influence. The economic and military political resources of the U.S. and Europe are continually shrinking as other centers of power grow outside of the West.

http://valdaiclub.com/usa/58280.html
May 7, 2012. President-elect Vladimir Putin, center, enters St Andrew Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace during the inauguration ceremony.
Politics

Implementation problems of Vladimir Putin’s election program

05/07/201311:16 The President’s best decision during his first year in office is the start of an anticorruption fight and the dismissal of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov (replaced by the popular Sergei Shoigu). As for his worst decision, it is appointing Dmitry Medvedev as Prime Minister, something that sparked quite a serious negative reaction.

http://valdaiclub.com/politics/58180.html
Vladimir Putin arrives in Brussels for Russia-EU summit
Europe

European Union and Russia: Partnership Without Strategy

04/29/201310:53 The European Union has been weakened by its expansion eastward and by the crisis in the eurozone. Russia is weakened by its worsening technological time lag and slow modernization process. If the EU and Russia were to take several paces back in their partnership, then both sides would suffer a setback in their ability to withstand the growing pressure of globalization.

http://valdaiclub.com/europe/58062.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
Vladimir Putin talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Asia

Iran - Russia: Maintaining bilateral relations

04/15/201310:35 After the re-election of Vladimir Putin as president in 2012, relations between Tehran and Moscow improved considerably as a result of international and regional changes. Despite the fact that economic cooperation has always been a Gordian knot in relations between the two countries, ties between them have expanded in many other areas.

http://valdaiclub.com/asia/57440.html
Rally to support President Bashar al-Asad in Damask
Middle East

The Real Reason Putin Supports Assad

04/15/201310:01 For Putin, Syria is all too reminiscent of Chechnya. Both conflicts pitted the state against disparate and leaderless opposition forces, which over time came to include extremist Sunni Islamist groups. In Putin’s view - one that he stresses repeatedly in meetings with his U.S. and European counterparts - Syria is the latest battleground in a global, multi-decade struggle between secular states and Sunni Islamism

http://valdaiclub.com/middle_east/57420.html
March 29, 2013. The conference of the Russian Popular Front on building social justice, in Rostov-on-Don.
Politics

Will the Popular Front become the ruling party in Russia?

04/11/201311:23 The Popular Front’s influence on the Russian political system will be limited to the Duma passing a law to allow blocs to take part in parliamentary elections. But this move entails a serious risk – patriotic blocs may emerge in the regions and win the elections, leaving behind both the front and United Russia.

http://valdaiclub.com/politics/57340.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
 
 
 


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