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

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

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

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

The secret, high-security location is said to house Vladimir Putin's secret family, including his young children he shares ...

A recent example of such overlooked significance is the Third Russian-African Conference of the Valdai Discussion Club, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch as Vladimir Putin delivered a keynote speech at the Valdai forum in Sochi on Thursday (7 November), as the UK announced 56 new Russian sanctions. The UK has announced a wave of new sanctions ...

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 ...

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 ...