Over the past year and a half, the number of air defense systems around Russian leader Vladimir Putin's cottage in Valdai, ...

Around 12 air defence positions, mainly Pantsir-S1 systems, have now been deployed near Russian leader Vladimir Putin's ...

Satellite images show at least 12 air defense units — mostly Pantsir-S1 systems — positioned near Russian President Vladimir ...

Around the residence of the illegitimate president of the aggressor country Vladimir Putin in Valdai in the Novgorod region, ...

But there’s evidence Valdai is also vulnerable to the very same drones it’s supposed to detect and jam. In 2022, a Ukrainian drone bombed what appeared to be components of a Valdai somewhere ...

Ukraine launched a drone attack Thursday on a St. Petersburg oil terminal, multiple sources said. One of the drones also flew over Putin's palace at Valdai, a military source told RBC. Ukraine ...

The Valdai Discussion Club is a Moscow-based think tank and discussion forum that is closely associated with President Vladimir Putin. It was established in 2004 and is named after Lake Valdai ...

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia—An annual event that brings together Russian officials and foreign experts opened Wednesday, revealing strongly divergent views over the reality of the crisis in Ukraine ...

Last week’s fourteenth annual Valdai Club meeting in Sochi had the ambitious title “The World of the Future: Moving Through Conflict to Cooperation.” During its first few years, the Valdai ...

As I noted on Monday, I’m in Sochi attending the Valdai Discussion Club. In case it was not obvious, this is a Vladimir Putin-approved event — high-profile gatherings like this one that are ...

A decade ago, the focus of the Valdai Discussion Club, in the post-9/11 honeymoon that characterized U.S.-Russia relations, was to improve the quality of dialogue between Washington and Moscow.

THE Valdai club is an annual meeting of academics, historians and commentators who have an interest in Russia. Yesterday we met Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, in the Black Sea resort ...