Political scientist Richard Sakwa, professor at Kent University, seen during a meeting between Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and 6th Valdai International Discussion Club participants.12.09.2009#451814
Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko seen during a meeting with 6th Valdai International Discussion Club participants.12.09.2009#451820
Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko, left, and RIA Novosti deputy chief editor Alexander Babinsky seen during a meeting with 6th Valdai International Discussion Club participants.12.09.2009#451818
From left: Thoma Gomart, head of Russia and CIS Studies Center at French Institute for International Relations (IFRI), IFRI head Thierry de Montbrial and Archbishop Illarion of Volokolamsk, head of External Church Relations Department at Moscow Patriarchate, seen after a meeting with 6th Valdai International Discussion Club participants.12.09.2009#451817
From right: Archbishop Illarion of Volokolamsk, head of External Church Relations Department at Moscow Patriarchate, RIA Novosti correspondent in Italy Sergei Startsev and Helene Carrere D'Encausse, permanent secretary at French Academy of Sciences, seen during a meeting with 6th Valdai International Discussion Club participants.12.09.2009#451816
Russian Presidential Aide Arkady Dvorkovich, left, and Thierry de Montbrial, head of French Institute for International Relations (IFRI), right, seen during a dinner with participants of the 6th Valdai International Discussion Club meeting.12.09.2009#451631
From right: German political scientist Hans-Joachim Spanger and Marshall Goldman, head of Russian and Eurasian Studies Center at Harvard University, seen during a dinner with participants of the 6th Valdai International Discussion Club meeting.12.09.2009#451595
Presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich, second from left, seen during a dinner with participants of the 6th Valdai International Discussion Club meeting.12.09.2009#451593
Presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich seen during a dinner with participants of the 6th Valdai International Discussion Club meeting.12.09.2009#451594
Participants of the 6th Valdai International Discussion Club meeting seen during a meeting with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, NK Rosneft CEO Sergei Bogdanchikov and TNK-BP CEO Viktor Vekselberg.12.09.2009#451539
Participants of the 6th Valdai International Discussion Club meeting seen during a meeting with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, NK Rosneft CEO Sergei Bogdanchikov and TNK-BP CEO Viktor Vekselberg.12.09.2009#451536
Participants of the 6th Valdai International Discussion Club meeting seen during a meeting with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, NK Rosneft CEO Sergei Bogdanchikov and TNK-BP CEO Viktor Vekselberg.12.09.2009#451503
Participants of the 6th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club "Russia - the West. Back to Future" with Gazprom chairman Alexei Miller, Rosneft Oil Company president Sergey Bogdanchikov and TNK-BP executive officer Victor Vekselberg.12.09.2009#451436
From right: TNK-BP executive officer Victor Vekselberg and Gazprom chairman Alexei Miller with the participants of the 6th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club "Russia - the West. Back to Future".12.09.2009#451434
Rosneft Oil Company president Sergey Bogdanchikov with the participants of the 6th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club "Russia - the West. Back to Future".12.09.2009#451505
Sergey Bogdanchikov, Rosneft Oil Company President with the participants of the 6th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club "Russia - the West. Back to Future".12.09.2009#451432
Sergey Bogdanchikov, Rosneft Oil Company President with the participants of the 6th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club "Russia - the West. Back to Future".12.09.2009#451431
Participants of the 6th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club "Russia - the West. Back to Future" in Gazprom's central control room.12.09.2009#451394
Boris Posyagin, head of Gazprom Central Control Department with the participants of the 6th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club "Russia - the West. Back to Future" in Gazprom's central control room.12.09.2009#451406
Participants of the 6th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club "Russia - the West. Back to Future" in Gazprom's central control room. Boris Posyagin, head of Gazprom Central Control Department, is on the left.12.09.2009#451395
TNK-BP executive director Victor Vekselberg with the participants of the 6th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club "Russia - the West. Back to Future".12.09.2009#451502
TNK-BP executive officer Victor Vekselberg with the participants of the 6th meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club "Russia - the West. Back to Future".12.09.2009#451429
Presidium of the meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. Veliky Novgorod, September 3-4, 2004.03.09.2004#2977393
Roundtable meeting, "Not exactly parties or anything but parties?" organized by the Unity for Russia Foundation roundtable.23.07.2003#6494508
Sergei Karaganov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Europe at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Council for Russia's Foreign and Defense Policies01.03.2003#2793407
State Secretary of the Union of Russia and Belarus Pavel Borodin speaks at the 22nd Session of Parliamentary Assembly of the State Union of Belarus and Russia, January 14-16, 2003.14.01.2003#6470509
Political expert Sergei Karaganov, Foreign and Defense Policies Council head, editorial board chair of the journal, Russia in Global Politics01.01.2003#97314
The Tatyana's Day (Russian Students Day) traditional festival celebrations at Lomonosov Moscow State University. From left: Viktor Sadovnichy, Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, greets Vladimir Zhirinovsky, leader of the State Duma's Liberal Democratic Party of Russia faction, who arrived to attend the celebrations.25.01.2001#8898479
The Tatyana's Day (Russian Students Day) traditional festival celebrations at Lomonosov Moscow State University. From left: Yevgeny Primakov, head of the State Duma's Fatherland – All Russia party faction, presents a commemorative vase with an image of Russia's first major scientist and polymath Mikhail Lomonosov to Viktor Sadovnichy, Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University.25.01.2001#8898465
Sergei Kortunov, an adviser to the Head of the Presidential Executive Office and public director of the Russian Organizing Committee to Celebrate the Beginning of the Third Millennium and the 2000 Years of Christianity.14.04.1999#837626
Adie to the first President of Russia for economic issues, head of the group of experts under the President of the Russian Federation Alexander Livshits at a meeting with journalists in Moscow.17.11.1995#8429162
Andrei Kortunov, Department Head at the Institute of US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.01.06.1994#8273225
Vladislav Inozemtsev, economics expert of A Free Russia party’s parliamentary group in the Supreme Soviet of Russia.10.10.1992#5639483
The 1st Congress of Young Political Leaders. December 9-11, 1991. At the meeting hall.09.12.1991#5561672
The 1st Congress of Young Political Leaders. December 9-11, 1991. B. Bode (Germany) speaking.09.12.1991#5561671
The international congress of young Soviet political leaders, conference hall of the Academy of the Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (now Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), December 8-11, 1991.07.12.1991#8285268
The international congress of young Soviet political leaders, conference hall of the Academy of the Social Sciences of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR (now Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration), December 8-11, 1991.07.12.1991#8285267
Prominent political expert Alexander N. Yakovlev, Doctor of History, giving autographs at the public presentation of his book, "The Torment of Reading the Book of Life"20.10.1991#52078
From left: Viktor Kremenyuk, American studies expert, Deputy Director of the Institute of the United States of America and Canada, and Vitaly Naumkin, historian and orientalist, Islamist and political scientist, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies (USSR Academy of Sciences), during the roundtable meeting "War in the Persian Gulf: Soviet experts' opinion".10.10.1991#8225478
From right: Sadim Musafir, correspondent for the Syrian magazine Al-Fursan, speaks to Vladimir Vinogradov, Chairman of Council of Association of Diplomatic Workers and former ambassador of the USSR to Egypt and Iran.24.05.1991#6611228
A roundtable discussion, The Kurdish Issue: Soviet Experts' Opinions, held at the Novosti Press Agency (currently the International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya). Participants in the event discuss the escalation of the Kurdish-Turkish armed conflict. Photo: Olga Zhigalina, research fellow at the Institute for Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Russian Academy of Sciences).01.03.1991#6692551
A roundtable discussion, The Kurdish Issue: Soviet Experts' Opinions, held at the Novosti Press Agency (currently the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency). Participants in the event discuss the escalation of the Kurdish-Turkish armed conflict. Photo: Leila Adzhoyeva, research fellow at the Institute for Oriental Studies at the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Russian Academy of Sciences).01.03.1991#6692550
A roundtable discussion, The Kurdish Issue: Soviet Experts' Opinions, held at the Novosti Press Agency (currently the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency). Participants in the event discuss the escalation of the Kurdish-Turkish armed conflict. Photo: Konstantin Truyevtsev, head of the Arab countries department at the Institute for Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Russian Academy of Sciences).01.03.1991#6692547
A roundtable discussion, The Kurdish Issue: Soviet Experts' Opinions, held at the Novosti Press Agency (currently the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency). Participants in the event discuss the escalation of the Kurdish-Turkish armed conflict. Photo: Mikhail Lazarev, department head at the Institute for Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences (currently Russian Academy of Sciences), researcher of the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Kurdish issue.01.03.1991#6692542
A roundtable discussion, The Kurdish Issue: Soviet Experts' Opinions, held at the Novosti Press Agency (currently the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency). Participants in the event discuss the escalation of the Kurdish-Turkish armed conflict.01.03.1991#6692540
Vladimir Lysenko, initiator of establishing the Democratic Congress bloc and co-chair of the Republican Party, during the conference of Soviet independent parties and movements, whose participants announced establishing the Democratic Congress bloc and which took place in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR, on January 26-27, 1991.26.01.1991#8225265
The 4th Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (currently State Kremlin Palace), December 17-27, 1990. Sergei Alexeyev, Chair of the Committee for Constitutional Supervision of the USSR, attends a session.17.12.1990#8141236
Vladimir Gutnik, senior research fellow at the Center of Western European Studies of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Director of the Research Institute of Foreign Trade Links of the Higher School of Economics.15.10.1990#8421271
A delegation of Icelandic students in Moscow. Meeting with Vitaly Tretyakov, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper.10.10.1990#6650595
A roundtable discussion Soviet Experts on the Persian Gulf Crisis. Photo: Boris Rachkov, Ph. D. (Economics), an expert on the oil industry and author of the book Oil and World Politics, takes part in the roundtable discussion.20.08.1990#8343199
A roundtable discussion Soviet Experts on the Persian Gulf Crisis. Photo: Gennady Ilyichev, a senior counselor with the Soviet Foreign Ministry, takes part in the roundtable discussion.20.08.1990#8343197
Participants in the roundtable discussion Soviet Experts on the Persian Gulf Crisis.20.08.1990#8343191
Konstantin Geivandov, a political commentator with Izvestia newspaper takes part in the roundtable discussion Soviet Experts on the Persian Gulf Crisis.20.08.1990#8343190
Leonid Syukiyaiyen, DSc (Law), a leading research associate with the Institute of State and Law of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, now the Russian Academy of Sciences, takes part in the roundtable discussion Soviet Experts on the Persian Gulf Crisis.20.08.1990#8343189
Pavel Bayev, Ph. D. (History), a research associate with the Institute of Europe of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, now the Russian Academy of Sciences, takes part in the roundtable discussion Soviet Experts on the Persian Gulf Crisis.20.08.1990#8343186
A roundtable discussion, Results of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Political Experts Speaking. Vladimir Petukhov, Candidate of Philosophy and staff member of the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, takes part in the event.15.07.1990#8340365
A roundtable discussion, Results of the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Political Experts Speaking. Doctor of Philosophy Boris Slavin takes part in the event.15.07.1990#8340364
Moscow. Roundtable discussion Soviet-Kuwaiti Relations. Discussion participant Vladimir Isayev, a Soviet expert on Arab countries and their economies, Head of the Sector of Arab Countries' Economies.16.06.1990#8410480
