The Yaroslavl Forum cannot compete with the Davos forum, for example, due to the fact that it is a conference that is organised by the Russian establishment and because it doesn’t have nearly comparable resources. Hence, the Yaroslavl Forum should take a different approach, namely to offer a platform for new challenging ideas, including non-mainstream ideas.
The election campaign of 2012 has already started to gear up both in the US and in Russia, but the general situation is by no means unique for either country.
