Valdai Club

On October 2, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion dedicated to the situation in the Middle East. Alexander Rudakov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Lebanon; Amal Abou Zeid, Advisor to the President of Lebanon; Member of the Lebanese Parliament from the Free Patriotic Movement (2016–2018); Ruslan Mamedov, Research Director of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS; Adlan Margoev, Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies, MGIMO, participated. The event was moderated by Andrey Sushentsov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

On September 24, the Russian-Indonesian seminar titled “Indonesia – Russia: From the Past to the Future, History and Prospects”, by the Valdai Discussion Club, the National Archives of Indonesia and the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation, opened in Jakarta (Indonesia). The participants of the fourth session discussed Indonesia and Russia relationship as maritime countries.

On September 24, the Russian-Indonesian seminar titled “Indonesia – Russia: From the Past to the Future, History and Prospects”, by the Valdai Discussion Club, the National Archives of Indonesia and the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation, opened in Jakarta (Indonesia). The participants of the third session discussed digital transformation.

On September 24, the Russian-Indonesian seminar titled “Indonesia – Russia: From the Past to the Future, History and Prospects”, by the Valdai Discussion Club, the National Archives of Indonesia and the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation, opened in Jakarta (Indonesia). The participants of the second session discussed geopolitical perspectives on the bilateral relations between Indonesia and Russia.

On September 24, the Russian-Indonesian seminar titled “Indonesia – Russia: From the Past to the Future, History and Prospects”, by the Valdai Discussion Club, the National Archives of Indonesia and the Federal Archival Agency of the Russian Federation, opened in Jakarta (Indonesia). The participants of the first session discussed historical perspectives on the bilateral relations between Indonesia and Russia.

On September 19, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion, titled “Elections in the USA: What Awaits Ukraine?” Dimitri Simes, Channel One host, founder and former president of The Center for the National Interest (USA); Sergey Kislitsyn, Acting Director of the Institute of the USA and Canada at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Ivan Safranchuk, Director of the Centre for Eurasian Studies, MGIMO University; Vladimir Pechatnov, Professor at the Department of History and Politics of European and American Countries,  MGIMO University, participated.  The event was moderated by Andrey Sushentsov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

On September 16, the Valdai Club hosted the presentation of the Valdai Paper titled “Maritime Geopolitics of the Pacific and Indian Oceans: A View from Moscow”. Lyudmila Vorobyova, Director of the Third Asian Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry; Pyotr Skorospelov, Director of the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History; Alexey Kupriyanov, Head of the Indian Ocean Region Centre at IMEMO RASб participated. The event was moderated by Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

On September 9 at 11:00  Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club hosted the presentation of its  report, titled “Neither East, Nor West: How Iran’s Economy Copes With Sanctions”. Maxim Baranov, Acting Director of the Second Asian Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry; Sumbula Sultanova, Executive Secretary of the Russian-Iranian Business Council; Kayhan Barzegar, Senior Academic Advisor at the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS); Lana Ravandi-Fadai, Senior Researcher and Head of the Eastern Cultural Centre at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Adlan Margoev, Researcher at the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO, participated. The event was moderated by Ivan Timofeev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

On August 16, the Valdai Club hosted a discussion on the topic “Sanctions Against Russia – From Here to Eternity?”. Dmitry Birichevsky, Director of the Department of Economic Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry; Anastasia Likhacheva, Dean of the Faculty of World Politics and Economics, HSE; Glenn Diesen, Professor, University of South-Eastern Norway; Sergey Glandin, Partner at the BGP Litigation, Attorney, participated. The event was moderated by Ivan Timofeev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

On 24 July, the fourth session of the Second Russia-Africa Conference of the Valdai Discussion Club took place at Dar es Salaam (Tanzania). The session was titled “Climate Change, Social Development and Migration”.