Valdai Discussion Club

29 October 2026 15:21

🌎 The internal pluralism of BRICS or other non-Western platforms, inevitable given the kinds of states that form these associations, is the best possible condition for them to be able to fill the vacuum of ideas that arises in connection with the West’s inevitable retreat in this regard, Timofei Bordachev writes.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-consolidation-of-the-west-new-opportunities

#EurasianPerspective #West #BRICS #WorldOrder

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Valdai Discussion Club

28 October 2026 17:30

🌊 Navigational freedom in the Strait of Hormuz cannot be separated from the security environment in which it is exercised.

Where maritime routes have been incorporated into military operations against a coastal state, the legal and strategic implications deserve careful examination.

The relationship between military installations, logistical supply chains, and maritime movements may be relevant to understanding the security concerns of the coastal state, Mohammad Reza Dehshiri writes.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/freedom-of-navigation-and-the-security

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Valdai Discussion Club

28 October 2026 15:29

📷 On October 28, 2026, the Valdai Club hosted a presentation of the report “The Unfreedom of Navigation?” dedicated to the implementation of international maritime law norms in modern conditions.

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👉 Report “The Unfreedom of Navigation?”

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Valdai Discussion Club

28 October 2026 08:39

⏰ TODAY at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Moscow venue of the Valdai Club will host a presentation of the report “The Unfreedom of Navigation?” dedicated to the implementation of international maritime law norms in modern conditions.

❓ What challenges to freedom of navigation does the policy of the “collective West” create?
❓ Will the sanctions regime become superior to the norms and provisions of contemporary international maritime law?
❓ Do the provisions of the Convention need revision and updating in light of the current structure of global international relations?

These and other questions will be addressed by the participants in the presentation of the Valdai Club report.

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

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Valdai Discussion Club

27 October 2026 16:07

🇷🇺🇮🇩 In the emerging multipolar architecture, Russia and Indonesia will increase in importance for one another. It is important for stakeholders on both sides to capitalise on this opportunity and help in managing common regional and global problems. Despite the existing challenges, the outlook for bilateral ties can be considered encouraging, Jonathan Jordan writes.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/russia-indonesia-strategic-partnership

⭐️ The author is a participant in the Valdai—New Generation project.

#EurasianPerspective #Valdai_NewGeneration #Indonesia

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Valdai Discussion Club

26 October 2026 14:13

🇨🇳 A distinctive feature of the PRC’s current foreign policy is the emergence of global initiatives reflecting Beijing’s vision regarding issues of global development, international security, and inter-civilisational interaction. Standing out among these is the Global Governance Initiative, which synthesises approaches to reforming the international relations system.

In June 2026, a White Paper titled “Building a More Just and Equitable Global Governance System: China’s Concepts, Initiatives, and Actions” was released. It confirmed that Beijing is confidently assuming the role of an “architect” of international rules, offering an alternative to the Western vision of the development of the global order, writes Vladimir Nezhdanov. 

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/global-governance-with-chinese-characteristics

⭐️ The author is a participant in the Valdai—New Generation project.

#EurasianPerspective #Valdai_NewGeneration #China

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Valdai Discussion Club

26 October 2026 10:30

🇪🇺🌎 For the four founding members of Mercosur, the agreement with the European Union is not perceived uniformly; instead, it reproduces, at the regional level, the same fractures we see within the European bloc, write Mateo Rojas Samper and Christian Baldi.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-eu-mercosur-agreement-and-its-impact-on-the-eu

#PoliticalEconomy_of_Connectivity #EU #Mercosur

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Valdai Discussion Club

26 October 2026 10:22

📆 On 28 October at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Moscow venue of the Valdai Club will host a presentation of the report “The Unfreedom of Navigation?” dedicated to the implementation of international maritime law norms in modern conditions.

❓ What challenges to freedom of navigation does the policy of the “collective West” create?
❓ Will the sanctions regime become superior to the norms and provisions of contemporary international maritime law?
❓ Do the provisions of the Convention need revision and updating in light of the current structure of global international relations?

These and other questions will be addressed by the participants in the presentation of the Valdai Club report.

🎙️ Speakers:

🇷🇺 Pavel Gudev, Leading Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

🇷🇺 Prokhor Tebin, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University

🇷🇺 Maxim Shepovalenko, Deputy Director, Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

🇮🇷 Mohammad Dehshiri, Dean of the School of International Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran

🇮🇳 Sanjeev Chaudhry, Director of the Editorial Board, United Institute of Defence Studies, India

Moderator:

🗣️ Ivan Timofeev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/valdai-club-to-discuss-challenges-to-freedom-of-navigation

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 and Telegram.

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Valdai Discussion Club

23 October 2026 13:51

📷 On October 23, 2026, the Valdai Club’s Moscow venue hosted a discussion entitled “Russia and Africa: In It for the Long Haul?”

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Valdai Discussion Club

23 October 2026 09:21

📆 TODAY at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club’s Moscow venue will host a discussion entitled “Russia and Africa: In It for the Long Haul?”

❓ Which forms of cooperation with African countries are proving the most durable at present?
❓ What might relations between Russia and the states of Africa look like in 15–20 years’ time?
❓ What contribution will the third Russia-Africa summit make to the development of cooperation?

The participants in the Valdai Club discussion will seek to answer these questions, and others besides.

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

#EurasianPerspective #Africa #RussiaAfrica

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Valdai Discussion Club

22 October 2026 17:14

🇾🇪 Owing to its geographical position, Yemen remains an integral, central link in the security architecture of the Arabian Peninsula and the Red Sea, and it is the target of a strategy of managed chaos that bets on divisions and on pumping the region full of weapons—the true source of the breakdown of the settlement mechanisms in Yemen. Settling the Yemeni armed conflict requires an urgent revision of old clichés and normative documents, writes Sergey Serebrov.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-yemen-conflict-the-un-settlement-mechanism

#PolycentricityDivercity #Yemen #MiddleEast

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Valdai Discussion Club

21 October 2026 11:58

🇩🇪 Germany’s new political reality is not simply a shift in party rankings, but a shift in the conditions of interaction between society, territories, business, and the state, writes Vladislav Belov. The ability of state institutions to align these interests will determine the nature of the further transformation of Germany’s economic and political space and, accordingly, the electoral prospects of established parties at both the federal and state levels.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/state-elections-in-germany-a-new-political-reality

#PolycentricityDivercity #Germany

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Valdai Discussion Club

20 October 2026 18:30

☢️ Nuclear weapons still cap vertical escalation, but contestation is migrating horizontally — into drones, cyber, space and artificial intelligence. The gravest danger of the third nuclear age is that horizontal actions acquire vertical, nuclear meaning, writes B.K. Sharma.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-nuclear-factor-today

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Valdai Discussion Club

20 October 2026 17:58

🇺🇸🇨🇳 The outbreak of the US-China trade war in January 2018 marked a turning point in the relationship between the two countries: trade and economic issues exacerbated tensions and escalated into a complex geopolitical competition. Symbolic of this change was a speech by former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, delivered at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Its message: the period of normalisation between Washington and Beijing that began in the 1970s is over, and an era of competition between “communist China” and the “free world” has begun. Despite the two sides’ stated desire to “make a deal”, any agreement between them will prove incapable of addressing the full scope of accumulated problems, meaning the two sides can, at best, rely on mechanisms for “managed competition”, writes Vladimir Nezhdanov. 

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/from-trade-war-to-geopolitical-confrontation

⭐️ The author is a participant of the Valdai – New Generation project. 

#EurasianPerspective #Valdai_NewGeneration

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Valdai Discussion Club

20 October 2026 11:28

🌀 What, in the end, will win out: the laws of Greater Eurasia or the ideological blindness of CEE? The present reality is such that, despite the doctrinal blindness of CEE’s bureaucracy, the objective process of coordinated, networked interaction within Greater Eurasia will grow ever more tangible, writes Ksenia Smertina, political scientist specialising in international affairs and an expert on Central and Eastern Europe.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/between-the-west-and-greater-eurasia

#EurasianPerspective #EasternEurope

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Valdai Discussion Club

28 October 2026 18:14

🛟 India and Russia approach maritime navigation from different circumstances, but share an interest in dependable access to the seas. Cooperation will be most effective when it combines candid discussion of differences with practical measures to protect legitimate commerce, Sanjeev Chaudhry writes.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/unfreedom-of-navigation-shared-challenges

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Valdai Discussion Club

28 October 2026 17:04

⚓️ Law, Security, and Geopolitical Confrontation at Sea

Freedom of navigation, long regarded as a foundational principle of the international maritime order, is increasingly becoming a subject of political pressure and legal disputes. During the presentation of a Valdai Club report titled “The Unfreedom of Navigation?”, participants discussed the detention of merchant vessels, the expansive application of national legislation and sanctions, environmental restrictions, the security of maritime lines of communication, and the role of naval forces.

As the discussion demonstrated, freedom of the seas cannot be viewed in isolation from the broader crisis affecting the international system.

Valdai Discussion Club

28 October 2026 08:53

🎥 LIVE: at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), we are starting a presentation of the report “The Unfreedom of Navigation?” dedicated to the implementation of international maritime law norms in modern conditions.

https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/live-the-unfreedom-of-navigation-valdai-club-report-presentation

📑 Report “The Unfreedom of Navigation?”

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Valdai Discussion Club

28 October 2026 08:31

🚢 Valdai Report: The Unfreedom of Navigation?

Freedom of navigation is the foundation on which the entire subsequent legal superstructure rests—the 1982 Convention and the other international agreements and treaties governing activity in the World Ocean. The erosion of this foundation will inevitably mean that no single, universal set of rules of conduct for States will remain in this domain. Whether such legal chaos serves the interests of the collective West is not a rhetorical question, writes Pavel Gudev, the author of a new Valdai report “The Unfreedom of Navigation?”

📑 Report “The Unfreedom of Navigation?” in PDF

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Valdai Discussion Club

27 October 2026 15:43

🏆 Navi Pillay has a distinguished international reputation in the study of law and human rights, with an elaborate track record in service of humanity and as a global fighter for justice. Navi Pillay’s real reputation therefore certainly trumps that of the US president, who has faced four criminal indictments between his first and second terms, writes Rasigan Maharajh.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/obscurity-as-ideology

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Valdai Discussion Club

26 October 2026 12:45

📆 On 6 November at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club’s Moscow venue will host a discussion titled “US Midterm Elections: What They Mean for Russian-American Relations.”

❓ How will the election results affect American politics?
❓ How might they constrain the US president’s room for manoeuvre?
❓ And what should we expect for Russian-American relations?

The participants in the Valdai Club discussion will seek to answer these and other questions.

Moderator:

🗣️ Ivan Timofeev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/valdai-club-to-discuss-the-us-midterms

Working languages: Russian and 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 and Telegram.

#PoliticalEconomy_of_Connectivity #UnitedStates #Midterms

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Valdai Discussion Club

26 October 2026 10:27

🌏 Because the Bangkok Treaty already sets a common non-proliferation baseline, ASEAN can present regional nuclear cooperation as a hedging strategy anchored in shared rules, rather than a scramble for external patrons. Whether that holds depends on capacity, not on the partner list, writes Raisya Rahmawati. 

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-rise-of-nuclear-power-plants-in-asean

⭐️ The author is a participant in the Valdai—New Generation project.

#EurasianPerspective #Valdai_NewGeneration #Asia

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Valdai Discussion Club

23 October 2026 14:14

🇷🇺🌍 Russia and Africa: From Political Dialogue to Long-Term Partnership

On October 23, the Valdai Discussion Club’s Moscow venue hosted a discussion titled “Russia and Africa: In It for the Long Haul?” Participants discussed the sustainability of Russian-African cooperation, its prospects for the next fifteen to twenty years, and the conditions necessary for the transition from political agreements to long-term practical projects.

👉 Read an article on the discussion’s results

#EurasianPerspective #Africa #RussiaAfrica

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Valdai Discussion Club

23 October 2026 09:51

🎥 LIVE: at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club’s Moscow venue will host a discussion entitled “Russia and Africa: In It for the Long Haul?”

https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/live-russia-and-africa-in-it-for-the-long-haul

#EurasianPerspective #Africa #RussiaAfrica

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Valdai Discussion Club

22 October 2026 17:27

🎮 If industrial capitalism alienated the product of physical labour from workers, today the largest tech companies are alienating the “product” of their very existence in the form of behavioural data and social interactions. Profiting from this data facilitates the concentration of capital and the transformation of Big Tech corporations into monopolies of previously unimaginable scale, increasingly influencing the domestic and foreign policies of states. 

Andrey Kozinets, associate professor at the Far Eastern Federal University, discusses how this is leading to the emergence of a new international hierarchy, in which the hegemonic powers of data concentrate the infrastructure for generating, storing, and processing information, while others face the threat of losing their sovereignty.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/the-logic-of-digital-imperialism

⭐️ The author is a participant in the Valdai—New Generation project.

#EurasianPerspective #Valdai_NewGeneration

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Valdai Discussion Club

22 October 2026 17:08

🇮🇶 Today, Iraq’s economy is undergoing a profound restructuring, prompted by a sharp fall in oil revenues in the wake of the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz. Under the new Prime Minister, Ali al-Zaidi, Iraq has begun building a network of overland transport corridors and drawing private capital more actively into national projects, seeking to make the country an important link in regional trade and to rebuild its own manufacturing, writes Arina Tsvetkova. 

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/beyond-the-barrel-how-iraq-is-rebuilding-its-economy

⭐️ The author is a participant of the Valdai—New Generation project. 

#EurasianPerspective #Iraq

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Valdai Discussion Club

21 October 2026 11:39

🇺🇸 Freezing the Lindsey Graham law is a positive development—yet it is too early to speak of a qualitative change of course, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Ivan Timofeev. Much, if not everything, will be decided on the diplomatic and military front of the Ukrainian conflict.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/hell-freezes-over

#PoliticalEconomy_of_Connectivity #sanctions

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Valdai Discussion Club

20 October 2026 18:18

🇯🇵 Japan now faces a foreign policy dilemma: continue as a geopolitical pawn of a declining hegemony, or reconcile itself with its own continental geography, writes Tadeo Casteglione.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/japan-at-the-crossroads-remilitarisation-historica

⭐️ The author is a participant of the Valdai — New Generation project.

#EurasianPerspective #Japan #Valdai_NewGeneration

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Valdai Discussion Club

20 October 2026 17:39

🌏 If Moscow can use great-power diplomacy to make restraint materially valuable, the benefits would extend beyond Russia. The international system increasingly needs mechanisms through which states can acquire status, security and economic gains through cooperation rather than escalation, Hao Nan writes.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/two-summits-one-strategic-opportunity-for-russia

#PoliticalEconomy_of_Connectivity #APEC #G20

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Valdai Discussion Club

17 October 2026 09:03

📆 On 23 October at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club’s Moscow venue will host a discussion entitled “Russia and Africa: In It for the Long Haul?”

❓ Which forms of cooperation with African countries are proving the most durable at present?
❓ What might relations between Russia and the states of Africa look like in 15–20 years’ time?
❓ What contribution will the third Russia-Africa summit make to the development of cooperation?

The participants in the Valdai Club discussion will seek to answer these questions, and others besides.

🎙️ Speakers:

🇷🇺 Tatyana Dovgalenko, Director of the Department for Partnership with Africa at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

🇿🇦 Mikatekiso Kubayi, Senior Researcher at the South African Research Chair on African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, University of Johannesburg

🇿🇦 Sanusha Naidu, Researcher at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Global Dialogue affiliated with the University of South Africa

Moderator:

🚩 Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/valdai-club-to-discuss-russia-africa-cooperation

Working languages: Russian and 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.

#EurasianPerspective #Africa #RussiaAfrica

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