Putin to attend Valdai Club’s final plenary session on October 22

MOSCOW. Oct 21 (Interfax) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday will attend the final plenary session of the twelfth annual session of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi, the Kremlin has said.

The topic of this year’s Valdai conference is “Societies Between War and Peace: Overcoming the Logic of Conflict in Tomorrow’s World,” the Kremlin press office said.

Attendees will spend three days holding separate sessions to discuss various aspects of perceptions of peace and war both in the public consciousness and in international relations, religion and international economic cooperation.

Hence the breakdown of the current Valdai conference into economic, diplomatic and military-political sessions. A separate session will focus on the role of the mass media in the formation of perceptions of the global standoff.

The global conflicts picture would be incomplete without what is happening now in the Middle East, the events in that region will be the topic of the club’s special session.

This year the Valdai conference is attended by over 130 (including 90 foreign) experts and political scientists from 30 countries.

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