- 02:52 02/07/2011
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Friday that France does not understand the objections of some representatives of the international community to a UN Security Council draft resolution on Syria.
- 16:47 28/06/2011
Valdai Discussion Club is holding a panel discussion “Russia and Europe: Facing Common Challenges” on Friday, July 1, 14.45 – 16.15 at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. The Minister of State, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of France Alain Juppé will speak with introductory address and participate in the discussion.
- 11:07 28/06/2011
Collective research "Russian Energy Security and Foreign Policy", edited by Adrian Dellecker and the Valdai Club member Thomas Gomart was simultaneously published in the USA and Canada. This book provides an original and thoroughly academic analysis of the link between Russian energy and foreign policies in Eurasia.
- 09:35 06/06/2011
On May 26-27, Carleton University of Ottawa hosted the two day conference Canada, Russia, Norway: Dialogue and Cooperation in the Arctic. It was the first trilateral conference involving the most active Arctic countries and their partners, for whom the Arctic is home.
- 15:28 30/05/2011
Combining the efforts of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and NATO would be a more efficient cooperation tool than the separate efforts of the U.S. and NATO on the one hand, and separate states, on the other, Alexander Sharavin, director of the Institute for Political and Military Analysis, said on Friday.
- 15:17 30/05/2011
Russia’s Deputy Chief of Operations at the General Staff, Andrei Tretyak, discussed military development issues at the Valdai Club’s Defense and Security section meeting in Moscow on Friday, the Defense Ministry’s press and information service told RIA Novosti.
- 15:22 27/05/2011
On Thursday, in an unprecedented move, a group of foreigners were given a tour of Don-2N, a major anti-ballistic missile (ABM) and space vehicle tracking radar system near Moscow, said Defense Ministry Space Command spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin.
- 15:12 27/05/2011
Russia and NATO should focus their efforts on creating a European missile shield and developing a common information exchange system, and work should start immediately, said Oksana Antonenko, Senior Fellow and Program Director for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
- 11:16 26/05/2011
A two day conference "Canada/Russia/Norway: Dialogue and Cooperation in the Arctic", is being held on May 26-27, 2011 at the Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Leading international experts will be joined by businessmen and high-profile officials of the Canadian, Russian and Norwegian institutions
- 08:54 26/05/2011
One of the most important aspects of the thoroughgoing modernization of the Russian armed forces is that the government elite fully supports the actions of the Defense Ministry for the first time in post-Soviet history.
- 21:35 24/05/2011
The first Defense and Security section meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, to be held in Moscow on May 25-27, will focus on the modernization of Russia’s Armed Forces and cooperation in international security. The meeting was co-organized by RIA Novosti, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technology.
- 10:00 18/05/2011
Russia and the United States need new objectives and a new agenda for the next decade. While they should continue to cooperate on Iran and Afghanistan, they also need to move beyond these topics. The main conclusions of the report, “The U.S.-Russian Relations after the ‘Reset’: Building a New Agenda. A View from Russia,” is that the world has changed and Russia and the United States should formulate a new agenda or their relationship will roll back.
- 10:50 11/05/2011
The Working Group on the Future of the Russian-U.S. relations of the International Valdai Discussion Club will hold its next conference on U.S.-Russian relations at Harvard University on May 12-13.
- 10:57 23/03/2011
Civil unrest is gaining momentum in many countries of the Middle East and North Africa, and there are no signs of it abating any time soon, analysts say. A wave of popular uprisings has swept across the Middle East and North Africa, leading to the overthrow of deeply entrenched autocratic regimes in Egypt and Tunisia. Large anti-government protests were seen in Algiers, Iraq, Jordan, Morocco and Oman, and demonstrators continue to take to the streets in Yemen. International forces have now intervened in Libya.
- 10:42 23/03/2011
U.S.-Russian relations should be viewed in a broader context than the bilateral relationship, Russian experts say. Experts were invited by RIA Novosti to present a new report on U.S.-Russian relations entitled, “The U.S.-Russian relations after the ‘reset’: Building a new agenda. A view from Russia” The report was prepared by a group of Russian experts from the Valdai Discussion Club.
- 10:22 13/12/2010
Participants in an international conference in Malta, like a panel of doctors in consultation, determined why the prescribed medications have not worked and searched for new treatments for the patient – the peace process in the Middle East, which has not achieved a resolution of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
- 17:55 11/12/2010
Arab participants of an international conference in Malta called on Russia to use its influence over the more than a million Russian-speaking Israelis to change Israel’s attitude toward the regional peace process, but their Russian and Israeli colleagues said that this was impossible.
- 16:35 11/12/2010
Russia can and must play a prominent role in any Middle East peace settlement but it should not try to squeeze out the United States, experts said during their final meeting at the international conference “Scenarios and Models for a Middle East Peace Settlement.”
- 22:37 10/12/2010
Arab experts believe that the international community should enforce existing decisions rather than search for new ways to settle the Arab-Israeli conflict.
