Valdai Club

Maria Al Makahleh (Dubovikova)

Abdullah bin Abdulmohsen Al-Faraj

Hu Angang

Ivan Angulo

Shlomo Avineri

Aydar R. Aganin

Jon Alterman

Ali Al-Akhmad

Rashid Alimov

Yukio Asazuma

Japan

Vice-Chairman of the Association of Japanese-Russian Relations.

Materials

Shinzo Abe: The Longest-Running Prime Minister in Japanese History

Unfortunately, Shinzo Abe did not achieve a positive result in negotiations with Russia on the conclusion of a peace treaty, although he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin 27 times in an attempt to solve this important historical problem in the interests of the Japanese people.

Russia, Japan and Economic Cooperation in Asia

Japan harms itself by locking itself into the Kuril Islands dispute and not building economic ties; the potential for these being lucrative is very high, given the size of the Russian market and prospects for the development of Siberia’s natural resources. We aren’t seeing the forest for the trees.