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Valdaiclub.com interview with Timofei Bordachyov, Director, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies.
We have a lot of questions to solve: the question of conventional disarmament, the question of energy security, the question of human rights, the resolution of so-called frozen conflicts and the security of all the countries in Europe. 
RIA Novosti interview with Thomas Gomart, Director of the Russia/ Newly Independent States Centre at IFRI (French Institute of International Relations based in Paris and Brussels).
The world community is aware of the serious threat that the drug trade poses to its security through drug production and trafficking, as well as laundering money made in this industry.
European international relations are now entering a period of flux as the legacy of the cold war wanes, and the ‘outsider’ countries, notably Russia and Turkey, are rethinking their mutual relations as well as their place in the world. 
Russia and the United States are actively resetting their relations and have reached important agreements in the sphere of strategic offensive arms. Mutual consensus on the non-proliferation issue will also facilitate expanded dialogue on the Iranian nuclear program.
Russia and Iran have common interests on the international scene, above all in resisting a unipolar world order and ensuring fairness and clarity in the work of legal and political international organizations.
The U.S. and the world are facing something of a paradox: The United States cannot carry out any international projects unilaterally, but neither is a significant international undertaking possible unless Washington is on board. Therefore, Russia is unlikely to realize its key interests in Europe (European security), in the Commonwealth of Independent States, in the Asia Pacific region or in other parts of the world in the absence of a constructive relationship with the U.S. or, worse still, in the face of U.S. opposition. 
What can we say about the development of relations between Russia and the United States? At first sight, there are only positive processes. The Reset Policy, declared by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden in February 2009, is officially regarded as successful.
Russia and the U.S. have signed a new strategic arms reduction treaty. This officially cuts their surplus of arms by one third, but in actual fact, each party will only decommission several dozen such armaments.
Ukraine and Poland are the two countries that have key importance for the interconnection of Russia with Europe, the development of Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals, and for the development of the entire pan-European area. 
The election of Viktor Yanukovych as president has brought a dramatic improvement in Russian-Ukrainian relations. Concrete achievements include long-term agreements on gas export price and the Russian navy’s lease of its base at Sevastopol. 
RIA Novosti interview with Alexander Rahr, German Council on Foreign Relations, Director, Russia-Eurasia Center.
RIA Novosti interview with Thomas Gomart, Director of the Russia/ Newly Independent States Centre at IFRI (French Institute of International Relations based in Paris and Brussels).
Exclusive interview for the Valdai Club on the topic of two years of Dmitry Medvedev’s Presidency and Vladimir Putin's ten years in power.
Russia-NATO relations have improved considerably due to the fact that a membership action plan for Ukraine and Georgia is now off the table for the foreseeable future and certainly for the period of the Obama administration.
Director of Turkish Centre for International Relations and Strategic Analysis Sinan Ogan’s answers to ValdaiClub.com questions.
The forthcoming visit of President Medvedev to Ankara is being expected with a great sense of anticipation and respect. There has never been a time in the past 150 years when the image of Russia was as positive in Turkey as it is now, as public surveys indicate.

All Europeans - Eastern, Western or Central have the rightful privilege to celebrate these days as 20 years since the final disgrace of one of the worst of many Europeans utopias, which became a reality – Communism. All Europeans now enjoy much more political and economic freedom than ever. 



