The round table "Turn to the East: One Year Later" was held in the Scientific
Library of the V.G. Rasputin State University. The event was attended by
students of Baikal State University Daria Kharitonova and Arina Zhambalova, who
presented their reports analyzing the research activities of the Valdai Club and
scenarios of Baikal Siberia development made during the Baikal Economic Forum.
The reports of Baikal State University representatives were highly appreciated
by experts from the Institute of Geography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian
Academy of Sciences. Following the presentations, a free discussion was held,
where the audience expressed their opinions on Russian foreign policy in the Far
East and South Asia.
According to Ilya Oleinikov, associate professor of the BSU Department of
International Relations and Customs, the round table decided to maintain a
dialog on the specifics of the Russian "turn to the East". At the end of 2022, a
similar event has already been held at the initiative of students of the
Institute of International Relations and BSU, and now there was a kind of
"synchronization of hours".
New students are involved in the discussion of the problems, relevant issues
are being developed, which will be tested in Baikal State University on the
platform of the All-Russian Student Conference "Siberia in the Space of
International Relations" in April 2024.