Putin gave a thorough and calm speech at the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club

President Vladimir Putin spoke at the plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club.

The moderator of the club meeting, Fyodor Lukyanov, described Putin’s speech as calm and thorough.

Lukyanov noted that the president is committed to a serious and respectful conversation with an audience that is ready to listen.

MOSCOW, October 1 - RIA Novosti. President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club was calm and thorough; the Russian leader is determined to talk with those who are ready to listen, the moderator of the club meeting Fyodor Lukyanov told RIA Novosti.

Putin spoke on Thursday at the plenary session of the 23rd annual meeting of the Valdai international discussion club.

“The general mood is calm. Which, of course, may raise the question among some - how can this be happening in the world? But since the Valdai Club, in general, we have a report this year about the fact that there is no need to panic (at the beginning of the first day, the annual Valdai report “No Panic: the State and Responsibility for the Future” was presented - ed.). It seems to me that the president very clearly demonstrated how to do this - do not panic,” Lukyanov said in a conversation with agency.

As the moderator noted, the conversation turned out to be very rich and meaningful.

“There was a very wide range of very different questions, from different parts of the world, even geographically diverse. As we saw, he answered most of them very thoroughly, in detail. Such is the mood for a serious, respectful, calm conversation with the audience that is ready to listen,” the agency’s interlocutor emphasized.

The Valdai International Discussion Club is an association of leading foreign and Russian experts in the field of political science, economics, history and international relations. The club was created in September 2004 on the initiative of the RIA Novosti agency, the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and the magazines "Russia in Global Affairs" and Russia Profile. The club owes its name to the location of the first conference, which took place in Veliky Novgorod near Lake Valdai.