Club events
The Return of Diplomacy?
A Demand for Independence and a Farewell to Euro-Utopia
On November 20, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion, titled “A New Dream? Elections in Moldova and Georgia as a Marker on the Road to Sovereignty”. Moderator Andrei Sushentsov noted that the current trend in the former Soviet Union to seek autonomy contradicts the long-standing tendency to compensate for an unwillingness to solve complex domestic political problems by turning to promises of European integration.