On January 26 at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3) the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion on the escalation in Yemen and the Red Sea. Andrey Baklanov, Deputy Chairman of the Association of Russian Diplomats, Head of the Middle East and North African Studies Section at the Higher School of Economics; Kayhan Barzegar, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University in Tehran; Kobi Michael, Senior Research Fellow at the National Security Institute in Tel Aviv, Senior Research Fellow, Misgav Institute, participated. The event was moderated by Andrey Sushentsov, programme director of the Valdai Discussion Club.