On December 22, the Valdai Club held presentation of its new report, titled “Central Asia and the Ukrainian Crisis”. Timofei Bordachev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club (head of the report’s team of authors); Daria Chizhova, director of the Information and Analytical Center for the Study of Socio-Political Processes in the Post-Soviet Space, Editor-in-Chief of the Ia-centr.ru portal (author of the report); Evgeny Kozhokin, Dean of the Faculty of International Relations, Political Science and Foreign Regional Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities; Professor of the Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia; Alexander Sternik, Director of the Third Department of the CIS Countries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, participated. The event as moderated by Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.