On the opening day of the 10th Asian Conference of the Valdai Club in Samarkand, a bilateral session "Russia - Uzbekistan" was held. The conference, organized in partnership with the the Institute for Strategic and Regional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan (ISRS) under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, was attended by over 60 leading experts from 11 countries - Russia, Uzbekistan, Germany, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan, the Philippines, Sweden, Japan.