- 10:42 23/03/2011
U.S.-Russian relations should be viewed in a broader context than the bilateral relationship, Russian experts say. Experts were invited by RIA Novosti to present a new report on U.S.-Russian relations entitled, “The U.S.-Russian relations after the ‘reset’: Building a new agenda. A view from Russia” The report was prepared by a group of Russian experts from the Valdai Discussion Club.
- 10:22 13/12/2010
Participants in an international conference in Malta, like a panel of doctors in consultation, determined why the prescribed medications have not worked and searched for new treatments for the patient – the peace process in the Middle East, which has not achieved a resolution of the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
- 17:55 11/12/2010
Arab participants of an international conference in Malta called on Russia to use its influence over the more than a million Russian-speaking Israelis to change Israel’s attitude toward the regional peace process, but their Russian and Israeli colleagues said that this was impossible.
- 16:35 11/12/2010
Russia can and must play a prominent role in any Middle East peace settlement but it should not try to squeeze out the United States, experts said during their final meeting at the international conference “Scenarios and Models for a Middle East Peace Settlement.”
- 22:37 10/12/2010
Arab experts believe that the international community should enforce existing decisions rather than search for new ways to settle the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- 22:29 10/12/2010
The leaders of South and North Sudan will accept the result of the upcoming referendum on the future of South Sudan if it conforms to democratic standards and reflects the real will of the people, Russian Presidential Envoy to Sudan and Head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Federation Council Mikhail Margelov told RIA Novosti on Friday.
- 21:43 10/12/2010
Head of the Federation Council’s Foreign Affairs Committee Mikhail Margelov suggested establishing dialogue between Russian-speaking Israeli and Palestinian politicians and looking for other unconventional ways to revive the peace process in the Middle East.
- 22:27 09/12/2010
Israel needs to rethink its security policy for real integration in the region, Patrick Seale, a British journalist and author specializing in the Middle East said at an international conference in Malta on Thursday.
- 20:39 09/12/2010
The stalemate in the Middle East peace process could put off an Israeli-Palestinian settlement “until better times,” former Russian prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, the head of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said Thursday in his opening address at the international conference entitled “Scenarios and Models of the Middle East Settlement.”
- 20:24 09/12/2010
The international community, including Russia, has lost interest on holding a conference on the Middle East in Moscow, former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, the head of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said Thursday.
- 15:41 09/12/2010
The Quartet of Middle East international mediators should be expanded to include China and India, Russia's former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov said on Thursday.
- 17:17 07/12/2010
International experts and public figures will gather in Malta on December 9-10 to try to find new approaches to the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- 16:25 27/11/2010
The Russian-Chinese section of the International Valdai Discussion Club, entitled “Regional stability through harmonious development: Russia and China in the new world architecture,” was held on November 25-26, 2010, in Shanghai.
- 11:10 27/11/2010
The influence of Russia and China on the international arena will be increasing, Russian and Chinese experts concluded at the conference of the Russian-Chinese section of the International Valdai Discussion Club, which opened in Shanghai on Thursday.
- 11:06 26/11/2010
The conference of the Russian-Chinese section of the International Valdai Discussion Club closed on Friday. Leading experts from both countries have discussed strategic cooperation between Russia and China, the role of bilateral relations in the global architecture, trade and economic relations and the prospects of building a new Asia-Pacific security system.
- 11:01 25/11/2010
The role of Russia and China in the new world architecture, the countries’ strategic cooperation in security and bilateral economic and investment ties were some of the issues on the agenda of the conference organized by the International Valdai Discussion Club’s Russian-Chinese section, which opened in Shanghai on Thursday
- 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.”
- 17:07 08/09/2010
Transcript of the opening of the meeting
- 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.
