The Valdai Discussion Club was established in 2004. It is named after Lake Valda, which is located close to Veliky Novgorod, where the Club's first meeting took place.
The intellectual potential of the Valdai Discussion Club is highly regarded both in Russia and abroad. More than 1,000 representatives of the international scholarly community from 71 countries have taken part in the Club's activities.
In recent years, the Club's conferences have been attended by many leading politicians, experts, public figures and cultural figures from Russia and other countries.
Russian President Vladmir Putin has met with the participants of the Valdai Discussion Club's annual meetings every year since its founding.
In 2014 the Club moved away from the format of “telling the word about Russia” to practical work aimed at forming of the global agenda and delivering a qualified and objective assessment of global political and economic issues.
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