Valdai Club

Julian Schuster

Archil Sikharulidze

Tamara Shashikhina

Joko Susilo

Igor Sid

Brig. Gen. Sudaryono

Richard Sakwa

Felix Stanevsky

B.K. Sharma

Alexander Sagomonyan

Russian Federation

Doctor of History and Professor.

Head, Theory and History of International Relations Department, Moscow State Linguistic University.

Materials

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Russia and the Entente

The Brest-Litovsk peace treaty that ended Russia’s part in the war has been the subject of heated debate from the moment it was signed in March 1918. To this day, scholars offer differing interpretations of the circumstances that led to the treaty and its domestic and foreign policy importance.

Yury Andropov: Turning Over Pages of Life...

When Andropov came to power after the death of Leonid Brezhnev and launched a real crusade against corruption, society instantly gave him a good welcome. He did not spare even top-ranking government officials. So could Andropov have become a Soviet Deng Xiaoping, as some analysts called him after his demise or was it all a myth?