On October 6, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion on the presidential elections in Brazil. Dmitry Razumovsky, PhD in Economics, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Lyudmila Okuneva, Head of the Department of History and Politics of European and American Countries, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Victor Jeifets, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, director of the Center for Ibero-American Studies, St. Petersburg State University; Editor-in-Chief, “Latin America”, participated. The discussion was moderated by Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.