- 19:20 08/09/2010
A storm on Russia’s northwestern Lake Onega began to seriously rock the five-deck riverboat “Kronstadt” last Thursday, just as the boat’s travelling party of some 90 Russia experts from around the world brainstormed whether Russia should move “forward to Asia” or “backward to Europe.”
- 12:15 08/09/2010
Having met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Sochi, participants in the Valdai International Discussion Club almost unanimously agreed that he intends to remain in Russian politics for a long time.
- 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.
- 14:52 07/09/2010
The Valdai International Discussion Club has a new project for 2010: the Russia Development Index (or Valdai Index).
- 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.
- 02:56 07/09/2010
The 2011 Valdai International Discussion Club meeting will be held in June.
- 02:27 07/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin reiterated that law enforcers used adequate measures against recent unsanctioned opposition rallies in Russia.
- 23:54 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday he was optimistic about the future of ties with the U.S. and called his relationship with President Barack Obama “wonderful.”
- 23:36 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the Valdai International Discussion Club that he and President Dmitry Medvedev were people from "one party" and pledged there would be no "shocks" at the 2012 presidential elections.
- 23:32 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin shows no signs of wanting to quit politics anytime soon, an expert said after a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club with the premier in Sochi on Monday.
- 23:31 06/09/2010
Analysts taking part in this year's Valdai international discussion club in Russia met Monday with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
- 23:26 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday he will not interfere in the case of former Yukos oil major CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
- 23:07 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was more at ease at this year's meeting with the Valdai International Discussion Club than at previous encounters, an expert said Monday.
- 22:42 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sees money as the answer to the resolution of a large number of issues, an expert said after a meeting with the premier on Monday.
- 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.
- 20:57 06/09/2010
The South Stream pipeline will be constructed as quickly as Nord Stream, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday at a meeting with the members of Valdai international discussion club.
- 20:56 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday that nuclear energy is the only alternative to traditional energy sources.
- 20:52 06/09/2010
The Russian authorities did not dramatize the losses suffered by energy giant Gazprom during the financial crisis, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday.
- 20:24 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday the Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline project was likely to be a success.
- 20:21 06/09/2010
Russia needs a stable environment for steady growth and development, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
- 20:16 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday Russian laws regulating foreigners' access to strategic assets are as liberal as in the West.
- 20:12 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday that it was too early to talk about the 2012 presidential polls.
- 20:08 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday he was convinced of the sincerity of U.S. President Barack Obama's moves to develop relations with Russia.
- 20:02 06/09/2010
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday it was too early to speak about the burial of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin.
- 17:24 06/09/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will take part in a roundtable discussion of political scientists, including the Valdai international discussion club participants, on September 10.
- 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.
- 23:16 03/09/2010
Participants of the Valdai International Discussion Club dedicated the third day of this year's gathering to discussions of Russia's historic past and the search for the best format for Russia-EU relations.
- 22:14 03/09/2010
Participants of the 7th Valdai Club Meeting have launched a new Valdai Index project aimed at measuring Russia's economic, social and political development.
- 01:59 03/09/2010
Thursday's session the Valdai Discussion Club meeting focused on whether Russia should search for closer ties with European or Asian countries.
- 14:11 02/09/2010
The first cultural, economic and political ties between Georgia and Kievan Rus date back to the 12th century. Both Orthodox Christian states, they established regular relations in the 16th-18th centuries.
- 12:48 02/09/2010
In the 9th-12th centuries, most of the Kievan Rus lands were part of the early feudal Russian State. The Kiev, Chernigov, Halych, Vladimir-Volhynia and other independent principalities emerged in Southwest Rus in the 12th century, and the Halych-Volhynian principality toward the end of the 12th century.
- 12:29 02/09/2010
In the 1840s and the 1850s, two intellectual movements, namely, the Slavophiles and the Westernizers, emerged in Russian society and philosophical thought. The Slavophiles advocated Russia’s unique way of development, whereas the Westernizers insisted on the need to follow in the wake of Western civilization and imitate the Western socio-political system, civil society and culture.
- 12:23 02/09/2010
Polish history is closely intertwined with the history of Russia.
- 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.
- 23:03 01/09/2010
Participants in a Valdai Discussion Club meeting discussed on Wednesday whether modernization is possible in Russia and, if so, how it can be achieved.
- 19:50 01/09/2010
The Valdai International Discussion Club has become a wide-ranging platform for dialogue with Russian experts, German participants in the forum said on Wednesday.
- 16:24 01/09/2010
This year's meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club opened on Wednesday onboard the Kronstadt cruise ship with a discussion on whether Russians are inclined to authoritarian rule.
- 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.
- 09:32 31/08/2010 Arnaud Dubien
Projects developed in some Anglo-Saxon circles, whose goal is the strategic separation of Russia and Ukraine, have failed. They were unrealistic and dangerous, both for the two countries and the rest of Europe. It is obvious that for historical reasons, Ukraine will always occupy a special place in Russia’s political vision.
- 09:17 31/08/2010 Richard Pipes
In advance of the seventh regular meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, which is to be held in St. Petersburg, Kizhi, Valaam and Moscow in the first decade of September , Richard Pipes, an American Professor of Russian History, gave an interview for RIA Novosti where he explained his views on the influence of history and geography on the Russian political system. According to his opinion Russia has its own, different from Western civilization, development path.
- 08:50 31/08/2010 Leszek Miller
In an interview with RIA Novosti, former Polish Prime Minister (2001-2004) Leszek Miller says that Russia and Europe need to develop their relations gently. Mr Miller is to take part in the forthcoming meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. In Europe, they expect Russia to continue promoting its market economy and democracy, but understand that Russia should not blindly follow European traditions, Leszek Miller said.
- 08:42 31/08/2010 Xing Guangcheng
For several centuries, everyone in Russia – from great minds to cooks – has been discussing the same issue: should Russia look to Europe or Asia? The world’s geopolitical structure has changed in this time, and yet we still have not resolved this issue. Xing Guangcheng, an expert on Russia and a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, who will be attending the upcoming seventh meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, shared his views on this question with RIA Novosti.
- 08:33 31/08/2010 Charles Grant
It is high time Russia and the European Union started discussing a possible “reset” in their relations now that Russia has successfully “reset” its relations with the United States, believes Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform.
- 08:23 31/08/2010 Orietta Moscatelli
The next meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, taking place in early September in St. Petersburg, Kizhi, Valaam and Moscow, will provide its foreign participants with a truly unique chance of “immersion into the Russian dimension”
- 22:42 30/08/2010
The 7th Valdai Club Meeting, an expert forum for international specialists on Russia, will take place between August 31 and September 7 in St. Petersburg and Karelia.
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