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Oct 01 2025 
The West’s Place in the World After the Loss of Hegemony
[Note: For most of this year, the Valdai Club seemed to be flailing around with very little direction and very little work of consequence, almost similar to the UN. With the current annual meeting I find better content and crisper thinking. I hope you like this one. Mr Putin’s presentation will revolve around the Polycentric… Continue reading
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Sep 29 2025 
Dr. Chaos or: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Disorder
Paper from the Valdai Club:
We are told incessantly that the changes unfolding today are without historical parallel – but since when, one might ask. How many years have elapsed since the world last witnessed shifts of a similar magnitude?
Could it be 40 years, taking us back to the moment when changes taking place in the… Continue reading
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Feb 08 2025 
In Valdai, confronting the “American problem” in West Asia
While Trump runs riot with his global land grab projects, multipolar visionaries in Valdai were mapping out the actual, tangible territorial routes that will define this century’s geopolitics and geoeconomics.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
MOSCOW – The 14th Middle East Conference of the Valdai Club in Moscow was hit by a geopolitical bunker buster bomb right… Continue reading
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Nov 08 2024 
Putin Outlines The ‘Moment of Truth’
President Putin’s plenary session performance (address + Q&A) at the annual Valdai Club meeting in Sochi felt like a high-speed train on cruise control.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Totally cool, calm, comfortable, in full command of a Himalaya of facts, no political leader anywhere – recent past and present – would even come close to delivering… Continue reading
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Nov 08 2024 
President Putin’s speech at the Valdai Club
This is a good and complete video out of Putin’s speech. The transcript will be updated here as it is completed. I suggest that this becomes a ‘required course’ for all of us.
The best description of Mr.Putin is cool, calm, collected, warm and friendly with his trademark of a phenomenal grasp of international affairs and… Continue reading
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Aug 07 2024 
BRICS and the IMF Debt Traps. What Can the Contingent Reserve Arrangement Do for the Global South?
An “alternative” monetary fund to the IMF has been created, but, ironically, it needs the IMF’s blessing to be used. It was created in a different context than today’s, in which we had yet to experience such a sharpening of the contradictions between the imperialist powers and the global majority. But history demands a change,… Continue reading
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Jan 09 2024 
Valdai Club on the road in India “International Turbulence: Challenges and Opportunities for India-Russia relations”
Approximately 2 years ago Mr Putin made a comment at a Valdai Club discussion to the effect that Valdai should create a multinational profile and Valdai should go on the road. For anyone watching carefully, just recently Dr S Jaishankar visited Moscow to high praise from all parties. A part of Valdai is in India,… Continue reading
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Jun 29 2023 
BRICS and the Political Economy of the New World Order: An Expert Discussion (now with summary transcript)
Video on this page:
https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/brics-and-the-political-economy-of-the-new-world-order/
Alternative link: https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239104
On June 29, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion, titled “BRICS and the Political Economy of the New World Order.”
Under the stress experienced by the traditional institutions of globalisation and global governance, the BRICS association (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) is becoming the most important centre for the… Continue reading
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Jun 06 2023
Valdai Club: Can Russia Mediate Between India and China?
Given that India would prefer to deal with the disputes with its neighbours bilaterally, how can its partners help? Apart from direct mediation, friendly partners can assist through a variety of ways, depending on the willingness of the parties. These involve backchannel talks, support at international forums, and the facilitation of meetings between disputing parties,… Continue reading
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May 17 2023 
Current History: The Central Asian Vector
From the Valdai Club.
Notes: Although this speaks to the Central Asia area, it is valid in principle for all countries, areas, and regions that are moving to multipolarity. In the recent article on South Africa, I mention internal factors that need to be present in order for a successful break with the single polar hegemon… Continue reading
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Apr 27 2023
Valdai Club: Modern Diplomacy and the New World Order
Are the general diplomatic manoeuvres simply part of the military activity that is growing on a global scale, or are they replacing the “big” negotiations about a new world order, about which theorists could dream of? It can be assumed that both are being done at the same time — to the particular chagrin of… Continue reading
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Apr 04 2023
Valdai Club: The US — South Korea — Japan Triangle in the Biden Doctrine
The apparent convergence in the Washington-Seoul-Tokyo triangle creates challenges for the new logistics routes currently being built with much difficulty, including through the Sea of Japan, writes Valdai Club expert Igor Istomin.
Despite the aggravation of the situation in Eastern Europe, American policy documents (including the US National Security Strategy published in October 2022) establish China as the… Continue reading
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Mar 06 2023 
Valdai Club: Sanctions on Russia
Sanctions on the Anniversary of the Special Operation in Ukraine
Ed Note: We may as well accept that this will be the trajectory for China as well.
The further escalation of sanctions against Russia is inevitable. This means that for Russia, the most important task remains the development of means of settlement with foreign countries, which would… Continue reading
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Feb 10 2023 
Valdai Club: Times of Great Confusion
Times of Great Confusion: On the Concepts by Which We Comprehend the World
A correct system of coordinates, a system of terms is needed, which — when discussing what is happening in the world — we will understand it approximately the same way, writes Valdai Club Chairman Andrey Bystritskiy.
The events of all human history, up to… Continue reading
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