📆 #SPIEF: On June 6 at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024, the Valdai Discussion Club will hold its ninth annual special session for the event: “Conflict or Harmony? The Secret of Proper Development in the 21st Century.”

📍The event will take place in Conference Hall G2 at Pavilion G of the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will be open to all Forum attendees. The session will also be livestreamed on the Club’s website.

The theme of this year’s Valdai Club discussion is based on the premise that modern conflicts are a legacy of a past era and not a means to shape a future one. Instead, the future success of global and national development depends on our ability to avoid conflict. 

The Valdai Club will provide an opportunity for experts from Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa to present views that differ from Western concepts and discuss ways of promoting conflict-free harmonious development.

Participants in the Valdai Club session will consider the following issues:

❓How could interstate contradictions be resolved without clashes?
❓What conditions contribute to the harmonious development of diverse societies?
❓How can we overcome inequality, which gives rise to social conflicts and leads to political conflict?
❓Is the global community prepared to recognize the futility of conflict and seek new paths of development?

By tradition, the Valdai Club session at SPIEF-2024 will be opened by Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club.

🎙️ Speakers:

🇮🇳 Ram Madhav Varanasi, President of the India Foundation (India)

🇿🇦 Gustavo De Carvalho, Senior Research Fellow for Russian-African Relations at the South African Institute of International Affairs (South Africa)

🇮🇩 Rahakundini Bakrie Connie, professor at St. Petersburg State University (Indonesia)

🇨🇳 Wang Huiyao, Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (China)

🇷🇺 Ruslan Yunusov, Co-founder Russian Quantum Centre

Moderator:

🗣 Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club

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Working languages: Russian, English.

ℹ️ Venue:  Conference Hall G2, Pavilion G of the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Centre, Petersburg highway 64/1, St. Petersburg.

Admission to the event is possible for SPIEF-2024 participants and journalists accredited at the Forum.

Links to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram and Dzen.

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📆 ANNOUNCEMENT: On June 1 at 19:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will participate in a webinar titled “The Radical Reorientation of Russian Foreign Policy”. Its organizer is the International Manifesto Group, which studies the evolution of the world order. The Valdai Club will act as an information partner for this event.

Russia’s foreign policy is experiencing a historical shift today, comparable to the early 1990s or the end of the 17th century, when Russia under Peter the Great turned to the European experience in pursuing new paths of development.

Sergei Karaganov, one of the leading experts on Russian foreign and defence policy, will share his assessments and forecasts at the webinar. First, in the format of an interview, which will be conducted by the Valdai Club experts Richard Sakwa and Radhika Desai, then, answering questions from the audience. Also, at the beginning of the webinar, Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Club, will make an opening speech.

❓How is the reorientation of Russian politics proceeding so far?
❓What are its causes and driving forces?
❓What consequences does this entail for the Ukraine conflict?
❓What are the prospects for the division of the world between the West and the world majority?
❓How will Russian military doctrine change?

The participants will try to answer these and other questions during the webinar.

🎙️ Speaker:

🇷🇺 Sergei Karaganov, Academic Supervisor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics; Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy (SVOP); Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Russia in Global Affairs journal @ruglobalaffairs; one of the founders of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Europe

🎙️ Interviewers:

🇨🇦 Radhika Desai, Professor, Department of Political Studies, Director of the Geopolitical Economics Research Group, University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada)

🇬🇧 Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian and European Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, senior researcher at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and honorary professor at the Faculty of Political Science of Lomonosov Moscow State University

https://valdaiclub.com/events/own/the-radical-reorientation-of-russian-foreign-policy-webinar/

Working languages: English, Russian.

✅ Register for a video conference on the Zoom platform here.

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⏰ TODAY at 19:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will participate in a webinar titled “The Radical Reorientation of Russian Foreign Policy”.

Its organizer is the International Manifesto Group, which studies the evolution of the world order. The Valdai Club will act as an information partner for this event.

Sergei Karaganov, one of the leading experts on Russian foreign and defence policy, will share his assessments and forecasts at the webinar. First, in the format of an interview, which will be conducted by the Valdai Club experts Richard Sakwa and Radhika Desai, then, answering questions from the audience. Also, at the beginning of the webinar, Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Club, will make an opening speech.

❓How is the reorientation of Russian politics proceeding so far?
❓What are its causes and driving forces?
❓What consequences does this entail for the Ukraine conflict?
❓What are the prospects for the division of the world between the West and the world majority?
❓How will Russian military doctrine change?

The participants will try to answer these and other questions during the webinar.

https://valdaiclub.com/events/own/the-radical-reorientation-of-russian-foreign-policy-webinar/

Working languages: English, Russian.

✅ Register for a video conference on the Zoom platform here.

#valdaiclub

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⏰ TODAY at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024, the Valdai Discussion Club will hold its ninth annual special session for the event: “Conflict or Harmony? The Secret of Proper Development in the 21st Century.”

📍The event will take place in Conference Hall G6 at Pavilion G of the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will be open to all Forum attendees. The session will also be livestreamed on the Club’s website.

Participants in the Valdai Club session will consider the following issues:

❓How could interstate contradictions be resolved without clashes?
❓What conditions contribute to the harmonious development of diverse societies?
❓How can we overcome inequality, which gives rise to social conflicts and leads to political conflict?
❓Is the global community prepared to recognize the futility of conflict and seek new paths of development?

Admission to the event is possible for SPIEF-2024 participants and journalists accredited at the Forum.

Links to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram and Dzen.

#SPIEF #SPIEF2024 #valdaiclub

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🎥 LIVE: at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will hold its special session “Conflict or Harmony? The Secret of Proper Development in the 21st Century,” as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024.

https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/valdai-club-session-at-spief-2024v/

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🗣 On June 6, 2024, the Valdai Discussion Club held its special session “Conflict or Harmony? The Secret of Proper Development in the 21st Century,” as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024.

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🗣 Is Progress Possible Without Conflict? Valdai Club Session at SPIEF 2024

As part of the business program at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), a session of the Valdai Club took place on June 6. The event’s participants explored the question of whether global and national development can occur without conflict and violence.

Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, noted in his introductory remarks that conflicts that stem from the past continue to dominate our world, yet the majority of people in the world do not wish to be involved in them and are seeking ways to avoid being drawn into them.

Fyodor Lukyanov, Valdai Club Research Director, who served as moderator for the session, pointed out that the notion of conflict as a catalyst for growth is embedded in the Western perception of progress, which is no longer the dominant perspective. He emphasized that countries with different philosophies are playing an increasing role on the global stage and invited participants to consider a world governed by different principles.

📑 Read an article on the Valdai Club session at SPIEF

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