Valdai Club

Grigory Vygon

Antonio Villafranca

Anatoly Vishnevsky

Matteo Villa

Natalya Vyakhireva

Vladimir Vasiliev

Evgeny Vlasov

Aleksandr Vorobiev

Evgeny Vinokurov

Jean-Michel Vernochet

France

French writer, essayist, journalist and geopolitist. Previous position: editor and reporter for Le Figaro Magazine.

Materials

Francois Hollande between a Rock and a Hard Place

The issue of the Mistral ships was high on the agenda of the Putin-Hollande talks in Yerevan. It’s a fact that France cannot deliver an empty hull and that its electronic systems have been supplied by Thales and Russian companies.

Yemen Crisis Jeopardizing Iran’s Nuclear Deal

There is no doubt about Iran’s diplomatic support for the Shiite insurgency. But Tehran is concerned about the Houthi actions, because they came at an inappropriate moment and can disrupt the Iranian nuclear deal.