- 20:00 07/09/2010
Harvard Professor Timothy Colton, one of the world’s leading political experts, predicts Vladimir Putin’s victory at the 2012 presidential elections. His comments come after Valdai Discussion Club talks with the premier in Sochi.
- 16:52 07/09/2010
The Russian Constitution does not bar Prime Minister Vladimir Putin from running for president in 2012. But, as the head of government said at a meeting with Valdai Club members, it is too soon to discuss it.
- 12:15 07/09/2010
Andrew Kuchins, U.S. celebrated political scientist and expert on Russian politics, shares his view on participation in the Valdai Discussion Club and comments on Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s recent PR-campaign for the car industry.
- 12:15 07/09/2010
Anatol Lieven, a leading world political analyst and participant of the Valdai Discussion Club, says Russia is unlikely to face any radical breakthroughs in the major spheres of economy, modernization or corruption.
- 12:14 07/09/2010
Harvard University Professor Richard Pipes speaks on the Western image of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russian-U.S. relations and U.S. President Barack Obama’s “good behavior” towards Russia.
- 10:06 07/09/2010
September 6, 2010. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during the meeting with members of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi
- 21:40 06/09/2010
Participants of the 7th Valdai Club Meeting have launched a new Valdai Index project aimed at measuring Russia's economic, social and political development.
- 09:49 06/09/2010
The 7th Valdai Club Meeting, an expert forum for international specialists on Russia, headlined "Russia: History and Future Development," opened on August 31 and runs through September 7 onboard the Kronstadt cruise ship in northwestern Russia.
- 09:40 06/09/2010
The 7th Valdai Club Meeting, an expert forum for international specialists on Russia, headlined "Russia: History and Future Development," opened on August 31 and runs through September 7.
- 11:27 02/09/2010
This year's meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club opened on Wednesday onboard the Kronstadt cruise ship. The discussion brought together prominent experts on Russia from 15 European countries, the United States and Asia.
- 10:48 01/09/2010
The Russian News and Information Agency RIA Novosti, the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, Russia Profile and Russia in Global Affairs magazines and The Moscow News newspaper have been holding annual meetings of the Valdai Discussion Club since 2004. The club’s mission is to create an international expert venue, where leading foreign experts on Russia can receive trusted and competent information on the country and society’s development from top federal and regional officials.
- 14:39 11/06/2010
The conference, organized by Valdai International Discussion Club, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) together with RIA Novosti and Russia's Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, was attended by leading experts from Russia and the EU, including Karl-Georg Wellmann, Vitaly Naumkin, Sergei Karaganov and Nikolai Bordyuzha.
- 16:49 24/12/2009
Taha Abdel Alim, the general director of Al-Ahram media holding, gave an interview to Rusiya Alyoum TV during the Valdai Discussion Club forum in Suweima, Jordan. Alim discussed the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation and what regional countries can do to help.
- 23:07 23/12/2009
The International Discussion Valdai Club has covered major Middle East problems during its latest three-day conference, “The Middle East 2020: Is a Comprehensive Settlement Possible?” in Jordan on the Dead Sea on December 20-22.
- 16:59 22/12/2009
Former Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qurei urged on Tuesday efforts on the part of international mediators in the Middle East settlement to put an end to differences
- 15:47 22/12/2009
Hieromonk Filipp Ryabykh, Deputy Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, told RIA Novosti that only an interfaith dialogue among the Middle East’s effective - and not nominal – religious leaders can help resolve the conflict, which has long ago transformed from a political to a religious one
- 15:24 22/12/2009
Omar an-Nahar, the head of the Jordanian Foreign Ministry’s planning department, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday that the international conference "Middle East 2020: Is a Comprehensive Settlement Possible?", which is being held in Jordan, may be helpful in the resolution to the Middle East conflict.
- 13:00 22/12/2009
Former Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov said on Monday that the United States is to blame for Iran becoming a Middle Eastern power after it launched its war against Iraq.
- 16:25 16/12/2009
The West will take Russia’s new proposals on European security seriously, said Kairat ABUSEITOV, THE KAZAKH AMBASSADOR TO THE U.K., after the Valdai Discussion Club’s conference in London entitled “Towards a New Euroatlantic Security Architecture?”
