Valdai Club

“The current framework of global governance is out of sync with the development needs of the world economy,” said Yaroslav Lissovolik, a Programme Director at the Valdai Discussion Club in an interview with Asia Times.

At last month’s annual Valdai forum in Russia, President Vladimir Putin said it was “impossible” to deny climate change when disasters had become “almost a norm”.

On 21 October, Vladimir Putin stood before a crowd of dignitaries from home and abroad to deliver the keynote speech of the Valdai Discussion Club annual summit in Sochi, southern Russia. His speech laid out the ways in which Western liberalism had become a failing worldview redolent of a society in decline.

This year’s session of the annual Valdai International Discussion Club was organized in hybrid fashion, with most participants attending in person but some (myself included) choosing to participate remotely.

Remarkably, the Middle East was absent as a topic of discussion this time. Attendees from the region were also small in number. This was an indication that Russians are lately less focused on our region than they are on their own country’s place in the world, its strategic options, its alliances and how to remain a superpower.

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During a question and answer session after his speech at the Valdai Discussion Club in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Putin backed Biden's decision over the controversial U.S. withdrawal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a scathing rebuke of western liberal political ideology, specifically on the issue of gender identity, in a speech this week.

More devious minds might see the choice of a Briton and a journalist as a ploy to banish the negative publicity surrounding the enforced departure from Russia of the BBC’s Sarah Rainsford, writes Mary Dejevsky

The annual Valdai Club meeting in Sochi, Russia, was another lively affair for envisioning a post-unipolar global order