Valdai Discussion Club
Vladimir Putin giving a speech at the Valdai Club gallery in October 2014 | |
| Company type | Think tank |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | , Russia |
Key people | Andrey Bystritskiy Nadezhda Lavrentieva Fyodor Lukyanov |
| Website | valdaiclub |
The Valdai Discussion Club is a Moscow-based think tank and discussion forum. It was established in 2004 and is named after Lake Valdayskoye, 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 for Foreign and Defense Policy, the Russian International Affairs Council, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and the Higher School of Economics.