First Defense and Security Section Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. Programme
Moscow
List of speakers

The inaugural session of the Defense and Security Section of the Valdai International Discussion Club titled “Modernization of Russia’s Armed Forces and Cooperation in International Security” is to be held in Moscow on May 25-27, 2011.


May 25, Wednesday

10:00 am-01:00 pm

Discussion panel: Reform of the Russian Armed Forces

07:00-09:00 pm

Dinner with the President of the JSC “United Aircraft Corporation” Mikhail Pogosyan

May 26, Thursday

10:00 am-12:00pm

Tour of the Don-2N multifunctional radar station

04:00-06:00 p.m.

Discussion panel: Building a European missile defense system

06:30-08:30 pm

Dinner with Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov

May 27, Friday

10:00 am-12:00pm

Meeting with Head of the Armed Forces General Staff Main Operations Directorate Lieutenant General Andrei Tretyak on the theme “The Russian Army’s new look”

Discussion panel: New challenges – new alliances: from ideological alliances to interest-based coalitions