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.