Valdai Discussion Club

🗣 On March 18, 2026, the Valdai Club will hosted an expert discussion titled “Humanity’s Mars Project: A New Strategic Goal?” Photo gallery Video #PoliticalEconomy_of_Connectivity #Mars #space 🗣🗣🗣

📆 ANNOUNCEMENT: On March 26 at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion titled “Ghosts of the ’Great Game’: Could the South Caucasus and Central Asia Become a Space for Great Power Rivalry?” The concept of inevitable great power rivalry in the South Caucasus and Central Asia is a product of the colonial era of international politics and is based on the premise that these regions play a dependent role. Today, however, the states of the South Caucasus and Central ...

🚧 The recently concluded first quarter of the 21st century will go down in the history of international relations as a period when leading global actors began to interpret the norms of international law concerning the recognition of new states and the territorial integrity of existing ones—with unprecedented freedom and selectivity. While the second half of the twentieth century was also replete with territorial disputes resolved by force and the emergence of unrecognized or partially reco...

🇷🇺🧊🇨🇳 Sino-Russian Arctic cooperation has evolved, but has also been constrained by diverging priorities, Russian caution, and China’s selective engagement. Much of their collaboration is geographically limited to Russia’s Arctic zone and adjacent waters. This includes cooperation in shipping, energy, and symbolic military drills, such as the Northern/Interaction-2024 joint naval and air exercise and the Ocean-2024 strategic exercise (Ministry of National Defence of the People’s Republic of...

⏰ TODAY at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion titled “Ghosts of the ’Great Game’: Could the South Caucasus and Central Asia Become a Space for Great Power Rivalry?” ❓How do events in the Middle East affect the states of the South Caucasus and Central Asia? ❓What internal development challenges do they face today? ❓What is the potential for internal conflicts and international cooperation in the region? Participants in the discussion will try to answer these...

🎥 LIVE: at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), we are starting an expert discussion titled “Ghosts of the ’Great Game’: Could the South Caucasus and Central Asia Become a Space for Great Power Rivalry?” https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/ghosts-of-the-great-gamev/ #PolycentricityDivercity #CentralAsia #SouthCaucasus 🗣🗣🗣

📷 On March 26, 2026, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion titled “Ghosts of the ’Great Game’: Could the South Caucasus and Central Asia Become a Space for Great Power Rivalry?” Photo gallery Video #PolycentricityDivercity #CentralAsia #SouthCaucasus 🗣🗣🗣

🌏 The legend of the Great Game arose in the mid-nineteenth century against the backdrop of the convergence of Russian and British imperial possessions in Central Asia. It originated in the fertile mind of a British intelligence officer—who ended up losing his head in the central square of ancient Bukhara in 1842. Yet, for all its far-fetchedness, it did prove useful in the political discourse of the two empires, which were seeking avenues for competition that would not cause significant damage ...

📆 On March 30–31, the Valdai Discussion Club, in partnership with the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies (ISRS) under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, will hold its next Russian-Uzbek conference. The theme of this year’s meeting is: “Russia – Uzbekistan: A Strategic Partnership in the Eurasian Space.” The event will take place in the city of Termez, Republic of Uzbekistan. Distinguished guests at the conference will include: Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy Foreign&n...

🗣 Programme of the Russia-Uzbekistan conference of the Valdai Discussion Club and the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan “Russia – Uzbekistan: Strategic Partnership in Eurasia” 📍 Termez, Uzbekistan, March 30-31, 2026 Attention! The time specified in the programme is local   📆 March 30, Monday   09:50 – 10:30 — Opening Session. Russia and Uzbekistan: Bilateral Dialogue and Opportunities for Cooperation in Eurasia (...