Valdai Club

Alina Shcherbakova

Michael Stürmer

Farid Shafiev

Vasil Sakaev

Samir Saran

Boris Sokolov

Ilya Storchilov

Viktor Shakhmatov

Claire Spencer

Nikolai Sukhov

Russian Federation

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Materials

The Reality of the New Constitution of Syria

All that is left is to wish the Special Representative and his staff to be patient and to remain firm in their uphill struggle to provide favorable conditions for the operations of the Syrian Constitutional Committee.

What to Expect from the Saudi King’s Historic Visit to Russia

Both states recognize the role and significance of each other geopolitically. The Saudi business community is preparing a powerful “landing party” for Russia, of up to 700 people, in hopes of creating new and developing existing ties with Russian companies.

Report: The Middle East: Darkness Before the New Dawn? Regional Conflicts and the Future of the Global Community

Military conflicts, terrorism, lack of natural resources, unemployment, disparity – all these are but a fraction of problems, which persist in the Middle East. Political rivalry at regional level as well as global actors’ interference lead to increasing tensions. Why does the region turn out to be so vulnerable to the conflict?

Report: The Middle East in a Time of Troubles: Traumas of the Past and Challenges of the Future

The Middle East today epitomizes major global trends: international processes becoming more ungovernable, the resurgence of power as a factor in international relations, the greater role played by contingency, the world’s periphery and semi-periphery gaining in strength amid a crisis in the concept of the nation state and national identity.