Valdai Club

Michael Rubin

Ulrike Reisner

Dmitry Rozental

Lila Roldán Vázquez

Dana Rohrabacher

Dmitry Razumovsky

Kubatbek Rakhimov

Elena Remizova

Urban Rusnák

Vladimir Ryzhkov

Russian Federation

Independent political scientist.

Materials

Report: Toward the Great Ocean-2, or Russia’s Breakthrough to Asia

The report presented at the 11th Krasnoyarsk economic forum on the 27th of February 2014 is a follow-up to the report Toward the Great Ocean, or the New Globalization of Russia, published by the Valdai Discussion Club in July 2012, and is based on the conclusions drawn in that report.

Valdai Club Experts on Putin’s Most Important Statements

Valdai Club Russian and foreign experts have said that Vladimir Putin’s statement about the possibility of running for president in 2018 was the most interesting, although not at all unexpected. Members of the Russian opposition, however, pointed to Putin’s words on protest movements in Russia and his promise to consider an amnesty for the Bolotnaya Square protesters.