Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in the plenary session of the XVI annual meeting of the Valdai international discussion club. This year, the topic of discussion is " The dawn of the East and the world political order."
One of the important part of the event is Putin's international meetings. On the sidelines of the club meeting, the President of Russia will hold talks with the presidents of Kazakhstan and the Philippines Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Rodrigo Duterte.
The first meeting of Valdai was held in 2004 in Veliky Novgorod near lake Valdayskoye. The club was named after it. In subsequent years, the meeting was held in Tver, Khanty-Mansiysk, Kazan, Rostov-on-don, Sochi, St. Petersburg, Moscow and other cities.
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