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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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Publications

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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security

Vladimir Putin, George Robertson meet in Moscow
Europe

The more Russia and NATO need each other, the better

07/17/201212:39 Russia and NATO regularly make real steps towards greater cooperation. It must be understood, however, that normal relations will not be established until the internal conceptual obstacles to real rapprochement are removed.

http://valdaiclub.com/europe/46400.html
Blogs

What does Russia expect from EASI?

03/01/201212:18 Russia would like to find another negotiating platform that is less bureaucratic and able to solve important practical problems.

http://valdaiclub.com/blogs/39620.html
NATO-Russia Council meets in Sochi
USA

Russia and NATO: Threats worse than the Cold War legacy

07/29/201109:59 Russia’s security initiatives coincide with the interests of European countries. Europe’s security status is very vague – it has many overlapping organizations but none of them, including NATO, can do anything real. It is necessary to create something new in Europe. Like us, Europeans are interested in regional security.

http://valdaiclub.com/usa/29040.html
Russia,Belarus and Kazakhstan's air force and air defense drills
USA

New horizons in Transatlantic ballistic missile defense

07/25/201111:05 A brief attempt to explain how NATO’s missile defense politics has changed, specifically regarding nuclear defense. During the Cold War, the East and West were two separate camps which daily faced the prospect of nuclear conflict. Today, however, the Euro-Atlantic community is much more free, united and secure.

http://valdaiclub.com/usa/28841.html
NATO-Russia Council meets in Sochi
Europe

Russia and NATO: time to abandon illusions

07/07/201110:44 Today is the moment for Russia and NATO to end seeing each other through the Cold War prism. Twenty first century challenges requires both sides to challenge of their 20th century hangovers.

http://valdaiclub.com/europe/27920.html
Energy Security
Energy security

European energy security: Lessons of 2011

06/22/201111:25 In recent years one of the main aims of the EU energy policy was to reduce dependence on Russian energy. However, the start of 2011 has prompted to take a different view on the security of energy supply to Europe, especially given an unprecedented increase in gas demand observed in the European market in 2010.

http://valdaiclub.com/energy_security/27200.html
RSD-10 (SS-20 Saber) missile
Defense

General Staff deputy chief discusses army reform with Valdai Club members

05/30/201115:32 Russia’s Deputy Chief of Operations at the General Staff, Andrei Tretyak, discussed military development issues at the Valdai Club’s Defense and Security section meeting in Moscow on Friday, the Defense Ministry’s press and information service told RIA Novosti.

http://valdaiclub.com/defense/25761.html
CSTO holds Interaction-2010 drills at Chebarkul training field
Defense

CSTO-NATO cooperation could be an efficient alternative – Sharavin

05/30/201115:24 Combining the efforts of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and NATO would be a more efficient cooperation tool than the separate efforts of the U.S. and NATO on the one hand, and separate states, on the other, Alexander Sharavin, director of the Institute for Political and Military Analysis, said on Friday. He was speaking at the Valdai Club’s Defense and Security section meeting arranged by RIA Novosti, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (CFDP) and the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technology.

http://valdaiclub.com/defense/25760.html
Russia in Foreign Media

Obama, Poland and Russia

05/27/201111:56 At a time when the Obama administration has reset relations with Moscow, Poland has engaged in its own fence-mending. The mistrust and hostility that has so colored the Russian-Polish relationship spans centuries. But a reconciliation is not without precedent. The post-World War II Franco-German rapprochement had to overcome the trauma of Nazism. Despite deep-rooted historical animosity, Poland and Germany have rebuilt relations over the past two decades.

http://valdaiclub.com/russia_in_foreign_media/25662.html
Russia in Foreign Media

Russia seeks pledge from NATO on Missile Defense

05/23/201111:21 Russia has in the past threatened to place missiles in Kaliningrad — a small area with a population of nearly one million that is sandwiched between two European Union countries, Poland and Lithuania — in response to NATO’s plans to deploy part of its missile shield in Eastern Europe.

http://valdaiclub.com/russia_in_foreign_media/25381.html
 
 
 


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