On December 18 at 4:30 p.m., the Valdai Discussion Club will host a discussion on strategic stability.
Following Ukraine’s strikes using long-range weapons provided by the United States and the United Kingdom, the Russian army introduced its new Oreshnik missile, which struck Ukrainian military facilities on November 21. Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “We are conducting live tests of the Oreshnik missile system in response to the aggressive actions of NATO countries against Russia. The question of whether to further deploy medium- and shorter-range missiles will be decided by us and depend on the actions of the United States and its satellites.”
Next month, a new US administration will take over the White House. It will face a dismantled arms control system and a significant escalation of the US-Russian standoff in Ukraine. The supply of increasingly sophisticated Western weapons to the Ukrainian army, particularly the long-range missiles that the outgoing US administration has authorised for use against Russia, has increased international tensions and the propensity for risky behaviour.
How might the arrival of a new US administration affect US-Russian strategic security contacts? What are the dangers of current tensions between Russia and the United States? How will the development of the nuclear arsenals of US allies and China affect the prospects for future arms control agreements? The panellists will try to answer these and other questions.
Speakers:
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Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
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Geoffrey Roberts, Emeritus Professor of History, University College Cork (Ireland)
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Robert Legvold, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Columbia University (USA)
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Nelson Wong, Shanghai Centre for RimPac Strategic and International Studies, Vice Chairman (China)
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Dmitry Trenin, Research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a leading researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Moderator:
- Andrey Sushentsov, Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club
Working languages: Russian, English.
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Links to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram and Dzen.
