On March 11, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion titled “COVID-19 Five Years On. How Has the Pandemic Changed Our Lives?”. Batyr Berdyklychev, Head of the WHO Representative Office in Russia; Valery Fedorov, Director General of VTsIOM; Rasigan Maharajh, Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa); John Gong, Vice-President of Research and Strategy at the University of International Business and Economics – Israel, China Forum Expert (China); Igor Makarov, Head of the School of World Economy and Laboratory for Economics of Climate Change at the Moscow-based Higher School of Economics; Kirill Telin, Research Fellow of the Faculty of Political Science at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, participated. The event was moderated by Ivan Timofeev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.