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Values of the World Majority

Syrian Debt: How the Bank of Russia Won a War No One Noticed

Polycentricity and Diversity

America in the Hormuz Trap

Political Economy of Connectivity

Beyond Arbitration: Rebuilding ASEAN–China Cooperation in the South China Sea

Eurasian Perspective

The Cold War: Legitimacy and Rules in Great Power Rivalry

Values of the World Majority

Africa-Russia Academic Mobility: From Soviet Legacy to New Horizons

Political Economy of Connectivity

India and the SCO

Values of the World Majority

Polycentricity and Diversity

Eurasian Perspective

Political Economy of Connectivity

World Majority

Globalization and Sovereignty

Eurasia’s Future

Economic Statecraft – 2025

Global Alternatives 2024

Wider Eurasia

The Return of Diplomacy?

Multipolarity and Connectivity

Conflict and Leadership

Global Corporations and Economy

Russia and Global Security Risks

Morality and Law

Asia – Eurasia

Middle East

Identity and Future of the West

Eastern-Style Globalization

Conflict of Ideas and Identities

Eurasia and Asia

Between War and Diplomacy

Emerging Global Commons

The Future of War

Russia and the Global Economy

Eurasia and Asia

The Future of Euro-Atlanticism

Eurasia in 21st Century

Middle East

War and Security in 21st Century

Regionalisation of the World

Russia and EU

Security and War Studies

The Contemporary State

Globalisation and Regionalisation

Global Alternatives

Eurasia

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Valdai Club to Discuss Ethical Challenges in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Valdai Club to Discuss International Educational Mobility

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Valdai Club to Discuss Oil Markets After the Gulf Crisis

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Valdai Club to Discuss Lessons and Challenges of Migration

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Valdai Club to Discuss the SCO’s Past, Present, and Future

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Valdai Club to Present a Report on a New Reserve Currency

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Valdai Club to Hold Expert Dialogue “From Global ‘Fighting With No Rules’ to a Dialogue of Civilisations”

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Valdai Club to Present Paper on the Search for a New Security Architecture in the Sahara-Sahel

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Valdai Club to Hold Its Session at SPIEF 2026

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Valdai Club to Hold Expert Dialogue ‘New World—Rules of Survival: Limits of Power and Space for Cooperation’

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Maritime Trade Chokepoints

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Global Wealth

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27.04.2026

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30.03.2026

Russia-Uzbekistan Cooperation

12.03.2026

Which Countries Are Capable of Acquiring Nuclear Weapons?

11.02.2026

Russia-India Cooperation

09.01.2026

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06.01.2026

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04.01.2026

Videoinfographic: Rare-Earth Metals

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14.07.2026

Ethical Challenges in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

08.07.2026

Russia’s Role in International Educational Mobility

06.07.2026

War, Sanctions, Supply, and Demand: Oil Markets After the Gulf Crisis. An Expert Discussion

30.06.2026

Migration 2026: Lessons of the Past and Challenges of the Present. An Expert Discussion

29.06.2026

The SCO Turns 25: Achievements, Challenges, and Looking Ahead. An Expert Discussion

26.06.2026

Presentation of the Valdai Report: ‘A Path to a New Reserve Currency’

24.06.2026

The Future of the Baltic Region: Powder Keg or Model of Peaceful Coexistence? Open Discussion of the Expert Dialogue in Partnership With Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

23.06.2026

Contemporary Media and Dialogue of Civilisations. Special Session of the Expert Dialogue in Partnership With Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

23.06.2026

The Eurasian Security System: A Unique Creation or a “Made in the Image and Likeness” of Existing Models? Third Session of the Expert Dialogue in Partnership With Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

23.06.2026

State, Civilisation, Civilisation-State: Conceptual Foundations and Contemporary Developments. Second Session of the Expert Dialogue in Partnership With Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Opinion

Syrian Debt: How the Bank of Russia Won a War No One Noticed

America in the Hormuz Trap

Beyond Arbitration: Rebuilding ASEAN–China Cooperation in the South China Sea

The Cold War: Legitimacy and Rules in Great Power Rivalry

Africa-Russia Academic Mobility: From Soviet Legacy to New Horizons

India and the SCO

Threading the Needle: The Global South Faces the West

Kyrgyzstan’s Strategy and New Horizons for Cooperation Among the Central Asian Five

The SCO and Financial Security

Between Impression and Experience: Can Generative AI Move Beyond Affect?

Reports

A Path to a New Reserve Currency

Beyond the Pattern: The World of Real Multipolarity

‘Rewiring’: Artificial Intelligence and Power in Global Politics

Russia and Its Neighbours: Mutual Responsibility and Co-Development

Where Is the European Left Headed?

Stuck in Mid-Sentence: The Middle East at the Start of the 21st Century’s Second Quarter

Russia – India: Prospects and Constraints for Technology Cooperation

Eurasian Transport Corridors: Competition or Complementarity?

Eurasian Security Architecture: Origins, Core Principles, and Prospects for Evolution

Beyond the Dollar: BRICS Initiatives for a Multipolar Financial System

Valdai Papers

Sahara-Sahel Region: In Search of a New Security Architecture Amid the Collapse of the Neo-Colonial System

Turkey in the Context of Transforming International Relations and the New Eurasian Geopolitics

US Semiconductor Reindustrialization: Implications for the World

Immortal Letters of Victory

Russia – Africa: Overcoming Challenges

Maritime Geopolitics of the Pacific and Indian Oceans: A View from Moscow

Tanzanian New Ground for Russian Businesses. Prospects for Cooperation in Agriculture

US CHIPS and Science Act and Its Impact on Russia’s High-Tech Sector

The New US National Security Strategy

EU Technological Sovereignty and Its Limits

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Contributors

Keyu Jin

Associate professor (with tenure) of Economics at the London school of Economics

Philippe Migault

Senior Research Fellow at The French Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS)

Yu Yunquan

Vice President of the Beijing-based Academy of Contemporary China and the External World

Fu Yanjie

Secretary General of the Union of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Russia

Pan Dawei

Director of the Center for Russia Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

Mohammad Reza Sheibani

Former Iranian Ambassador to Syria

Mathias Mossberg

Ambassador, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies (CMES), Lund University

Arun Mohanty

Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, India (1954 – 2018 )

Tatyana Mitrova

Director of the Energy Centre at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Michael McFaul

Former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation

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