Valdai Discussion Club

Valdai Discussion Club
Company typeThink tank
Founded2004
Headquarters,
Russia
Key people
Andrey Bystritskiy
Nadezhda Lavrentieva
Fyodor Lukyanov [ru][1]
Websitevaldaiclub.com

The Valdai Discussion Club is a Moscow-based think tank[2] and discussion forum. It was established in 2004 and is named after Lake Valdai, which is located close to Veliky Novgorod, where the Club’s first meeting took place. In 2014, the management of the Club was transferred to the Valdai Club Foundation, established in 2011 by the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy, the Russian International Affairs Council, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and the Higher School of Economics.[3]

  1. ^ "Executive Team". Valdai Discussion Club. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  2. ^ DeYoung, Karen; Filipov, David (April 7, 2017). "Expectations of a new U.S.-Russia relationship were tanking even before missile strike". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-07-29.
  3. ^ "Valdai Club Foundation". Valdai Discussion Club. Retrieved 2019-06-23.