Valdai Discussion Club

13 October 2026 12:40

🌏 Trade within Greater Eurasia is measured in the hundreds of billions of US dollars, while cross-border venture capital deals are worth far less: tens of millions. Capital in the region remains national even where trade flows have long since become regional. No trustworthy infrastructure has been created in Greater Eurasia for transactions worth under five million dollars. Such deals are too small to be included on summit agendas, but they are precisely what result in a vast network of ties that cannot be created in a top-down manner, writes Tatiana Seliverstova.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/how-startups-and-investments-connect-greater-eurasia

#EurasianPerspective #GreaterEurasia

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Valdai Discussion Club

08 October 2026 16:49

🌀 We are living through arguably the most dangerous geopolitical moment since World War II. What are the striking characteristics of this period of history, which began in the first or second decade of the 21st century? Writes Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-age-of-endarkenment

#WorldMajorityValues

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Valdai Discussion Club

07 October 2026 15:44

🇵🇱 Poland could easily transform from the driving force behind Ukraine’s European integration into a drag—and not solely because of historical grievances. In principle, Poles are not opposed to Ukraine becoming a member of the EU in the future, but they refuse to pay for it with their own prosperity, writes Anton Bespalov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/a-new-reality-emerging-in-polish-ukrainian

#PolycentricityDivercity #Poland

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Valdai Discussion Club

06 October 2026 17:56

🇮🇳 There is hardly any hope for an early resolution of the ongoing crisis in West Asia or the opening of the Hormuz Strait which would allow hydrocarbons to reach the world market. Most Indian experts are wary of its implications for the energy security of the country and how related economic developments affect the nation’s 1.5 billion people. The signing of the Mecca Accord has further fanned the security concerns of the nation, writes Vinay Shukla.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/india-wary-of-west-asia-developments

#PoliticalEconomy_of_Connectivity

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Valdai Discussion Club

06 October 2026 17:26

🇷🇺🇺🇸🇨🇳 The strategic triangle is a staple framework for describing the nature of the contemporary great power system, which is defined by relations between Moscow, Washington, and Beijing. Today’s political developments are once more restoring the great-power triangle to central stage, writes Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/russia-us-china-the-sides-of-the-triangle-in-an-ag

#WorldMajorityValues #UnitedStates #China #Russia

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Valdai Discussion Club

01 October 2026 20:35

🗣 On October 1, 2026, the Plenary Session within the framework of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting “Responsibility for the Future: Limits of the Possible, or Limitless Possibilities?” took place in Moscow, featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin. The plenary session was moderated by Valdai Club Research Director Fyodor Lukyanov.

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🎥 The video is available via this link.

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Valdai Discussion Club

01 October 2026 12:47

🗣 Embracing Responsibility and Looking to the Future: Day Three of the Valdai Discussion Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting

The third day of the Valdai Discussion Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting began with an open session on the theme “Responsibility: Individual or Universal? How to Preserve a Common Future Without Sacrificing National Interests.” After two days of discussions clearly dominated by military preparations and the militarisation of minds, it was time to move on to a positive agenda. That proved far from easy: the experts noted that today the leading powers are not only disinclined to think about a common future but are also gradually losing the culture of dialogue.

🗣 Read the third day summery

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Valdai Discussion Club

01 October 2026 10:03

🎥 23rd Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. Day 3

September 30, 2026, was the third day of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting. The day’s agenda included two thematic sessions and a meeting with Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom” Alexei Likhachev. The day was completed by the open discussion where participants summarised the key outcomes of the Valdai Conference.

See how it was in the video 👉

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Valdai Discussion Club

30 September 2026 21:09

📷 The third day of the Valdai Discussion Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting was completed by the open discussion where participants summarised the key outcomes of the Valdai Conference.

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Valdai Discussion Club

30 September 2026 17:40

🗣 The Economy of Resistance and the Spectre of New Wars: Day Two of the Valdai Club’s Annual Meeting

The second day of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting, on 29 September, opened with a session on the world economy. The central question put to the experts was how it has managed to adapt to the military and political shocks of recent years—and how far its safety margin will stretch. To skip to the conclusion: the participants neither confirmed nor ruled out the possibility of a global crisis in the near future. What they did do was identify the factors that make the present state of the world economy quite exceptional.

🗣 Read the second day summery

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Valdai Discussion Club

30 September 2026 14:23

⚔️ While armed conflict remains a variable thoroughly interwoven with the very notion of civilisation, we may possess the means of taming the drive towards war. Ways to channel the energy of confrontation into alternative pursuits are laid out by Aleksei Chibirov specially for the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/from-global-competition-to-planet-wide-scientific

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Valdai Discussion Club

30 September 2026 12:07

8️⃣ The third day of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting started with Session 8 “Responsibility: Individual or Universal? How to Preserve a Common Future Without Sacrificing National Interests.”

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🗣 Programme of the 23rd Annual Meeting

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Valdai Discussion Club

30 September 2026 10:10

🎥 23rd Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. Day 2

The agenda of the second day of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting included three sessions, a meeting with Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov and a special session on the Middle East.

See how it was in the video 👉

🗣 Programme of the 23rd Annual Meeting

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Valdai Discussion Club

30 September 2026 07:05

🗣 Good morning! The Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting continues.

📆 Programme for September 30, Wednesday

09:30 – 11:00 — Session 8. Responsibility: Individual or Universal? How to Preserve a Common Future Without Sacrificing National Interests (LIVE: Russian, English)

11:30 – 13:30 — Session 9. Prediction vs. Chaos: Scenario Thinking as a Risk Management Tool

14:30 – 16:00 — Meeting with Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom” Alexei Likhachev

16:30 – 18:30 — Open Discussion – The Valdai Conference Results (LIVE: Russian, English)

The open sessions will be live-streamed across all Valdai Club platforms: the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram, MAX and Dzen.

🗣 Programme of the 23rd Annual Meeting

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Valdai Discussion Club

29 September 2026 18:36

7️⃣ Session 7 of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting, titled “Europe of Tomorrow: Without War or After the War?”

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🗣 Programme of the 23rd Annual Meeting

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Valdai Discussion Club

08 October 2026 17:15

☢️ Whether nuclear capability continues to serve as a deterrent or has lost its deterrent capacity has, in recent years, become one of the central questions in the field of international security. Some analysts have also raised the question of whether the nuclear factor itself may have acquired a provocative character, writes professor Mehdi Sanaei. 

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-nuclear-factor-in-a-transitional-international-order

👉 This opinion piece was prepared based on the results of the Valdai Club's 23rd Annual Meeting.

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Valdai Discussion Club

07 October 2026 15:47

🌐 It was Bahr who devised, in 1963, the so-called Ostpolitik (“Eastern Policy”), which wagered on drawing the USSR closer to the West rather than polarising against it, writes Marco Fernandes. Late in life, Bahr called the Western choice of confrontation the “mistake of the century”, and said that NATO had become “an instrument serving the hegemonic strategy of the United States”.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-spectre-of-egon-bahr-returns-to-moscow

#valdai2026 #PolycentricityDivercity

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Valdai Discussion Club

07 October 2026 15:34

📆 On October 14 at 12:00 noon, the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion in Moscow, titled “Results of the German State Elections: A New Political Reality?”

❓ What do the election results signify?
❓ How will they impact the incumbent German Chancellor?
❓ What steps can the ruling coalition in Berlin take to prevent the “far-right” from coming to power?
❓ What are the prospects for a shift to the right in German politics?
❓ And is it possible to speak of the emergence of a new political identity in the East German states?

Participants in the expert discussion will try to answer these and other questions.

🎙️ Speakers:

🇷🇺 Vladislav Belov, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

🇩🇪 Thomas Fasbender, Journalist, Berliner Zeitung

🇷🇺 Artyom Sokolov, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

Moderator:

🗣 Anton Bespalov, Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/valdai-club-to-discuss-elections-in-germany

Working languages: Russian, English.

ℹ️ Information for the media: To register for the event, please fill out the form on our website. For any inquiries, contact press@valdaiclub.com or call +79269307763.

The discussion will be live-streamed across all Valdai Club platforms: the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram, MAX and Dzen.

#PolycentricityDivercity #Germany

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Valdai Discussion Club

06 October 2026 17:36

⚔️ Who Says No to New War?

Our survival as a civilisation will not depend on the power of our weapons. It will depend on whether we protect two very human words: the no that stops a war, and the yes that ends one, writes Akram Kharief specially for the 23rd Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-ethics-of-the-new-war-humans-and-inhumanity

#valdai2026

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Valdai Discussion Club

05 October 2026 15:47

🎥 23rd Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. Day 4

October 1 was the fourth day of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting “Responsibility for the Future: Limits of the Possible, or Limitless Possibilities?” On this day, a meeting with Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin, took place. In the evening, the Plenary Session, attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, was held.

See how it was in the video 👉

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Valdai Discussion Club

01 October 2026 17:10

🎥 LIVE: The live broadcast of the Plenary Session within the framework of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting “Responsibility for the Future: Limits of the Possible, or Limitless Possibilities?” is starting. Watch the live broadcast on the website:

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🇷🇺 In Russian

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Valdai Discussion Club

01 October 2026 10:21

🪖 The transformation of warfare through artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous systems, drones, precision-guided weapons, surveillance technologies and increasingly sophisticated targeting systems has generated profound ethical questions. Yet the central challenge is not technological in itself. It concerns the future of humanity and, more specifically, the place of the human being within the decision-making processes of war, writes Dr. Mohammad Reza Dehshiri specially for the 23rd Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/from-post-humanity-to-human-centred-artificial-intelligence

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Valdai Discussion Club

01 October 2026 08:17

🗣 Good morning! Today is the fourth day of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting.

📆 Programme for October 1st, Thursday

13:30 – 15:00 — Meeting with Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin

Plenary Session (LIVE: Russian, English)

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Valdai Discussion Club

30 September 2026 18:07

📷 On September 30, 2026, within the framework of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Valdai Club, a meeting with Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom” Alexei Likhachev, was held.

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🗣 Programme of the 23rd Annual Meeting

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Valdai Discussion Club

30 September 2026 15:15

🎥 LIVE: at 16:30, we will begin an open discussion where participants will summarise the key outcomes of the previous days of the Valdai Discussion Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting. Watch the live broadcast:

In English

In Russian

🗣 Programme of the 23rd Annual Meeting

#valdai2026

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Valdai Discussion Club

30 September 2026 14:15

9️⃣ Session 9 of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting, titled “Prediction vs. Chaos: Scenario Thinking as a Risk Management Tool.”

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🗣 Programme of the 23rd Annual Meeting

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Valdai Discussion Club

30 September 2026 11:21

🌍 The real challenge before us is not to become better at confrontation. Humanity is already becoming extraordinarily good at that. The challenge is to keep our capacity to cooperate while we disagree: to hold political space open when military options exist, to hold the line between civilian and military when technology blurs it, and above all to prevent the logic of war from becoming the organizing principle of international relations, writes Idriss Mounir Lallali, Acting Director of the African Union Counter-Terrorism Centre, specially for the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/why-war-must-not-become-the-organizing-principle

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Valdai Discussion Club

30 September 2026 08:10

🎥 LIVE: at 09:30 Moscow time, Session 8 of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting “Responsibility: Individual or Universal? How to Preserve a Common Future Without Sacrificing National Interests,” starts. Watch the live broadcast:

In English

In Russian

🗣 Programme of the 23rd Annual Meeting

#valdai2026

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Valdai Discussion Club

29 September 2026 21:23

📷 The second day of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting was completed by the special session, titled “The Middle East: Neither Carrot nor Stick. The Intractable Contradictions of a Boiling Region.”

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🗣 Programme of the 23rd Annual Meeting

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Valdai Discussion Club

29 September 2026 16:44

6️⃣ Session 6 of the Valdai Club’s 23rd Annual Meeting, titled “What Kind of Sun Will Rise in the East? A Portrait of the World with Asia at its Centre.”

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🗣 Programme of the 23rd Annual Meeting

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