Valdai Club

The most expected event of the last day of the XIV Annual meeting of the Valdai Club was undoubtedly the meeting with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. The traditional session with the participation of Vladimir Putin summed up the four-day Valdai discussions, where over 130 experts from 33 countries took part. Scientists discussed modern global, political and social  conflicts, the possibility of society's adaptation to new challenges. Through the analysis of contemporary conflicts the contours of the future world were predicted.

Vladimir Putin took part in the final session of the Valdai Discussion Club’s 14th Annual Meeting, which this year took the theme The World of the Future: Moving Through Conflict to Cooperation.

On October 19, the fifth session of the 14th Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club was held, dedicated to the conflict between progress and humanism. The relevance of this topic is tied to the unprecedented rate of technological development. Problems that recently were related to the science fiction are discussed at the legislative level. Making human life more comfortable and safe, the technologies at the same time create new risks.

Is it possible to look into the future and be ready for it? Who will be the winner from the eternal confrontation man and nature? How will the globalization process end? On October 18, 2017, the participants of the 14th Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club tried to answer these and many other questions.

On October 18, 2014, within the framework of the 14th Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, a special session was held, devoted to the results of the Future Preparedness Index, a  joint project of the Valdai Club and VTsIOM. The project is designed to show, that there are countries, that are most responsible for self-organization and their experience can be used to improve the picture of the future in other states.

The fourth session of the Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club was devoted to the issues of universalism and self-identity. Participants discussed the processes of globalization that began after the end of the Cold War and the reaction to them in the form of activating the self-identity policy, striving to strengthen their own unique self-identity.