Valdai Club

Pascal Boniface

Anna Bondarenko

RPS Bhadauria

Valentin Bianki

Lyubov Bisson

Boyan Bilbia

Wu Bingbing

Nikolai Bordyuzha

Anton Bespalov

Helge Blakkisrud

Norway

Senior Researcher and Head of the Research Group on Russia, Asia and International Trade at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway

Materials

Russia’s Far East Initiatives in Troubled Geopolitical Times

The China–Russia rapprochement forms the centrepiece of Russia’s much hyped policy of a ‘turn to the East’, a policy aimed at transforming the Russian Far East from a territorial backwater into a new gateway to China, North-East Asia and beyond.