🎙 Excerpts from President of Russia Vladimir Putin's remarks at the Plenary Session of the AI Journey international conference

💬 Vladimir Putin: Russia’s experience in the practical implementation of artificial intelligence is needed in various countries. Today, nations in Asia, Africa, Latin America, as well as our partners from the #CIS, the Eurasian Economic Union, the #SCO, #BRICS, and other associations are forming promising economic sectors and introducing innovations.

Russia unquestionably shares and supports their commitment to developing, and also supports domestic companies in creating AI-based products and services both for themselves and for the whole world.

We will provide the countries of the Global South and East with consultative and technical assistance in the domain of artificial intelligence. Of course, we hope that we will also borrow our partners’ achievements and implement joint projects based on equal access to knowledge, technology, and scientific achievements. This priority is enshrined in the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence.

We are ready to help create and apply generative models not only in Russian, but also in other languages. As I have said, these systems’ algorithms must be trusted, that is, clear, open, and unbiased. They must also be developed considering cultural and national peculiarities of each civilisation with its history, identity and traditions, which we, in Russia, deeply respect.

❗️I am confident that an international alliance of AI National associations and development institutions of the BRICS countries and other interested states will give a boost to this cooperation. This Alliance will be launched at the AI Journey conference today.

I hope that new foreign participants, including my colleagues, leaders of state, will attend this event.

⚡️ The decision announced by the US Department of the Treasury on December 10 to issue a $20 billion loan to the bankrupt Kiev regime, to be repaid with proceeds earned from “immobilised” Russian sovereign assets, which have in fact been stolen by the G7 countries, is nothing less than common robbery.

The criminal legislation of any country that claims to be civilised defines robbery as the unlawful seizure of personal property by an organised group of persons by prior agreement. In plain English, the G7 has stolen Russian money as part of preparations to take over all Russian sovereign assets stored in the West.

This will not save the Nazi Bandera regime or help any G7 country, for example, Canada, patch holes in their budgets. At the same time, it has dealt a formidable blow at the US-controlled global financial system, which is based on the dollar as a global reserve currency and an international settlement instrument.

The fiercely Russophobic Biden administration is trying to impose as many anti-Russia sanctions as possible before it transfers power to Donald Trump on January 20, 2025, completely disregarding the growing state debt, the huge financial bubbles, and the falling standards of living, which was the main reason behind the Democrats’ defeat at the November elections.

☝️ Washington is clearly unable to stop Russia’s development or inflict a “strategic defeat” on Moscow with the help of its Kiev puppets. This is evident from the pace of the special military operation. Such schemes are doomed to failure.

No pseudo-legal tricks garnished with hypocrisy and double standards will remain unanswered. Russia has the possibilities and instruments to reciprocate, confiscating Western assets within its jurisdiction and using them to build up its industrial potential and implement infrastructure projects in Russian regions.

❗️ The theft of Russian assets will backfire at the US and its satellites by further destabilising the departing “rules-based world order.”