On August 25, the Valdai Club held an expert discussion, titled “Half a Year in a New Reality: How Has the World Changed since February 24?” Konstantin Kosachev, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation; Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC); Dimitri Simes, President, Center for the National Interest, Washington; Nelson Wong, Vice Chairman and Executive Director, Shanghai Centre for RimPac Strategic and International Studies participated. The discussion was moderated by Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club.