🇨🇳🇷🇺 For some reason, the West is confident that Russia's special military operation in Ukraine will induce Beijing to launch military operations against Taiwan.

At the same time, even independent analysts warn against direct analogies and point out significant differences between Moscow’s approach and that of Beijing in ensuring security, as the degree to which each conflict poses an existential threat to the state is incomparable.

Moscow and Beijing do not adhere to the logic of bloc confrontation, even despite the West's clear course of deliberately creating threats near Russian and Chinese borders and engaging in numerous provocations.

China and Russia will not be able to ensure their own security if each ignores the challenges and threats facing the other.

This idea is confirmed by the growing rapprochement between Moscow and Beijing on issues of strategic stability, writes Andrey Gubin, PhD, an Associate Professor of Political Science at the Far Eastern Federal University and an Associate Professor of the Northeast Asia Research Centre of Jilin University (PRC).

#EconomicStatecraft #China #WorldOrder

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📆 #VALDAI2022: The 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone” will be held on October 24-27, 2022 in Moscow.

👥 The meeting will be attended by 111 experts, politicians, diplomats and economists from 41 countries, including Afghanistan, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the United States, Uzbekistan, and others. Much more than usual, there are participants from the Middle East and the Maghreb, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the CIS. At the same time, representatives of a number of Western countries have confirmed their participation.

🌐 A few years ago, the Valdai Club was one of the first to talk about the acceleration of the inevitable breakdown of the current world order and the entire system of political and economic institutions. Today we can say with confidence that this entropy has occurred, the world has entered a period of fundamental changes, and there will be no return to the previous model. Russia, due to its geopolitical and resource-historical position, has been at the centre of events, the coronavirus pandemic and the Russian special operation in Ukraine have accelerated the reorganisation of the world, but Moscow did not start this process, which is of an objective nature.

Although it is impossible to accurately determine the outlines of the future world order, an attempt will be made at the upcoming Valdai Club Annual meeting. Today, not a single country in the world is able to dictate the course of world events and is forced to reckon with the actions of other states — a post-hegemonic world has already arrived; it is already polycentric. The priority of regional non-Western powers is increasingly becoming the protection of their own national interests, providing themselves with maximum freedom of action.

Thus, the theme of this year’s Valdai Club meeting (“justice and security for everyone”) is both a statement that the hegemony of the Western bloc led by the United States has come to an end, and a wish for the future. The former international order was neither fair nor secure, which is largely the cause of the current military-political contradictions.

🎙 The Valdai Club Annual meeting promises to be eventful: a record high of 17 sessions will take place during the working days of the meeting. This year the conference programme is divided into thematic blocks: each day will be devoted to one broad topic — politics, economics or humanitarian issues. The following items are on the agenda:

• Russia in the confrontation with the West;
• The causes and consequences of the current geopolitical crisis around Ukraine;
• The end of globalisation and a new stage in the universal connectivity of the world;
• The return of nuclear weapons in world politics;
• Economic and technological war in new conditions;
• Values and communications in the modern world.

📑 The annual Valdai Club Report “A World Without Superpowers” will be presented at the conference. This year’s report is based on the Valdai Club’s hypothesis about the inevitable oblivion of the “superpower” concept.

💡 Dear media representatives, accreditation is open until 18:00 on October 21. For accreditation, please fill out the form on our website.

Stay tuned for the updates on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, Twitter, VKontakte, Telegram and Zen.

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📌 #VALDAI2022: Programme of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone”

📍Moscow, October 24-27, 2022
 
📆 October 24, Monday

09:30 – 09:40 — Opening of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club

09:40 – 11:10 — “A World Without Superpowers”: presentation of the Valdai Discussion Club’s annual report

11:30 – 13:00 — Session 1. The Past and the Future. How the Pandemic and the Military-Political Crisis Have Affected the International Situation

General discussion. During the first thematic session of this year, the Club's guests will share their views on what is happening in the world and what development scenarios are possible.

14:30 – 16:00 — Session 2. Cuban Missile Crisis After Sixty Years: Is Nuclear Deterrence Still in Place?

16:30 – 18:00 — Meeting with the leadership of the executive and legislative authorities of the Russian Federation

19:30 – 21:00 — Special session. The Ukrainian Question – Its Origins and Consequences


📆 October 25, Tuesday

09:30 – 11:00 — Meeting with the leadership of the executive and legislative authorities of the Russian Federation

11:30 – 13:00 — Session 3. Economic Warfare as a Defining Trend in Global Development

14:30 – 16:00 — Session 4. Energy and Food Security: Man-Made Challenges of Global Significance

16:30 – 18:00 — Session 5. One World in a New Way: Universal Connectivity Without Global Governance

19:30 – 21:00 — Meeting with the leadership of the executive and legislative authorities of the Russian Federation

 
📆 October 26, Wednesday

09:30 – 11:00 — Session 6. Values in the Modern World. What Is Their Balance for Genuine Equality?

11:30 – 13:00 — Session 7. Crooked Mirror or Last Hope? Communications in a Chaotic World

14:30 – 16:00 — Session 8. Technological Warfare: How Russia Will Develop Under the Western Blockade

16:30 – 18:00 — Session 9. Russia in Times of Mobilization: The Reassembly

19:30 – 21:00 — Special Session. Russia’s Image in the World: Myths and Reality

 
📆 October 27, Thursday

10:00 – 12:00 — Session 10. The World That Crumbled: Lessons for the Future from the 2022 Military-Political Crisis

16:00 — Plenary session

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/programme-of-the-19th-annual-meeting-of-the-valdai-club/

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🚫⛔️The European Union Council Regulation 2022/1905, adopted on October 6, 2022 as part of the eighth sanctions package, marked a new stage in the EU’s sanctions policy.

Article 1 of the document expands the number of criteria by which blocking EU sanctions may be applied with regard to the situation in Ukraine. Now, they include individuals and legal entities that contribute to bypassing the sanctions regimes against Russia under the Ukrainian package.

The new legal mechanism suggests that the European Union is adopting secondary sanctions similar to those used by the United States for a long time, write Ivan Timofeev and Dmitry Kiku.

The essence of secondary sanctions is that financial restrictions are applied for interaction with blocked persons. That is, any financial transactions with those who are already on the list are fraught with being included in the same list. The new rule does not specify who is involved. This gives reason to believe that it can be applied extraterritorially, that is, outside the EU and against persons from third countries.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/new-stage-of-eu-sanctions-policy-extraterritorial/

#EconomicStatecraft #sanctions

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❓🌐 What is happening in the world?

Is it a revolution that is breaking old foundations and bringing something fundamentally new? Or is it just a cyclical shake-up that will stir up the environment, but leave intact the principles of relations between states that did not change for millennia? And will the new turn out to be the well-forgotten old in the next stage?

Attempts to answer these questions were made by Valdai Club program directors and experts back in 2017 in our report, titled "The Importance of Being Earnest: How to Avoid Irreparable Damage".

But unlike the piquant play of Oscar Wilde, (which the title was borrowed from), the authors urge to abandon the "strategic frivolity", that enveloped the global elites at the end of the last century and shattered their most basic foundation, of self-preservation. It is necessary to return to an adequate perception of reality with its entire palette of dangers and threats, and understand that self-preservation is not 'every man for himself', but everyone together against the risks that is more effective to combat jointly.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/reports/report-the-importance-of-being-earnest/

📑 This year, we will present the annual Valdai Club Report “A World Without Superpowers” within the framework of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone”. The conference will be held on October 24-27, 2022 in Moscow.

💡 The accreditation to the conference is open for media representatives until 18:00 on October 21. For accreditation, please fill out the form on our website.

#VALDAI2022 #valdai_report #WorldOrder

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🌐 The assertion that global problems cannot be solved by any one state alone, even the most powerful state, seems to have become axiomatic.

We have repeatedly heard this statement from the lips of representatives of those same Western countries. It is precisely these goals that the numerous multilateral institutions and mechanisms, should have served, both old ones and new ones. In theory, at least.

But what do we see in practice? If you look at the facts, at least the Western co-founders saw in these institutions just tools for exercising control and maintaining their own dominance on the world stage in all areas - from military-political and technological to economic and ideological superiority. For all appearances, the G20 was given an identical role by the "older" countries of the G7.

This year, the G20 chair is Indonesia. Probably, first of all, only thanks to the will and firmness of Jakarta, the G20 still manages to avoid being written off. 

Indonesia, as chairman, has demonstrated exceptional maturity, vision, and scale as a true global power by resisting unprecedented pressure from the West to impose a rule-based order that benefits only them. 

Regardless of the outcome of the G20 summit itself, it will be possible to mark the Indonesian presidency as a success. After all, the current crisis has allowed Indonesia to prove itself as a global power. It is precisely the crisis and the hegemonic aspirations of the West that allow the rest of the G20 members to look for and eventually find those bold and non-standard solutions that will lead to a new, more just and equal world, writes Viktoria Panova, Vice-Rector of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Sherpa of Russia in the Women's Twenty.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/g20-does-multilateralism-have-a-chance/

#Valdai_WorldEconomy #G20 #Indonesia

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 The drums of war being beaten in Washington DC are picking up tempo.

▪️ Nancy Pelosi’s ill-advised visit to Taiwan was followed by that of another bevy of members of Congress.

▪️ Only weeks later President Biden declared that the US ‘stood ready to defend Taiwan in case of Chinese invasion.

▪️ Within two days of that, US and Canadian warships were conducting another of the provocative ‘Freedom of Navigation’ operations in the Taiwan Straits.

▪️ It has accelerated the passage of the Taiwan Policy Act which aims to ‘support the security of Taiwan and its right of self-determination’.

If denying China its sovereignty over its rightful waters is to be the goal of US policy even in the eyes of the critics of current US bellicosity, the US is unlikely to be shunted off the path of military aggression, writes Valdai Club expert Radhika Desai.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/us-set-on-path-of-military-escalation-with-china/

#Norms_and_Values #China #UnitedStates #Taiwan

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🧩🌐 The First World War was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.

It wiped several empires from the face of the earth, caused mass relocations – including forced migrations – and spawned totalitarian ideologies, and yet failed to resolve the underlying differences that, 20 years later, once again erupted and thrust the world into turmoil. Most importantly, the war destroyed the existing order, the principles on which European politics (essentially synonymous with world policy) had been built over the previous 100 years.

The victorious powers failed to build a new and sustainable model of world order after the hostilities ended. The vindictive triumphalism of the winners, the desire of the defeated for revenge, the outbreak of social cataclysms among the European powers, and the rise of new players and forces created the conditions for an even bloodier mass slaughter. Only by mid-century did humanity manage to restore a balance and establish institutions that could help reduce the risk of confrontation and maintain the peace.

The current situation in the world paradoxically resembles that of a century ago. However, all of this is largely a nominal similarity of circumstances, mere background to the main feature common to both historical periods. Now, as then, the world has entered an interlude: the old order no longer exists, but the new one has yet to take shape.

In each of its annual reports since 2014, the Valdai Discussion Club has consistently spoken of the need to restore global governance – meaning the resolution of emerging and growing problems through institutions-based cooperation between states holding particular political and economic importance to world affairs.

The report of 2018, titled "Living in a Crumbling World», has the unpleasant task of reporting that the world has now passed a critical juncture with regard to the formation of an effectively functioning international order based on global governance. That is, the world is now moving in a different direction.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/reports/living-in-a-crumbling-world/

📑 This year, we will present the annual Valdai Club Report “A World Without Superpowers” within the framework of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone”. The conference will be held on October 24-27, 2022 in Moscow.

💡 The accreditation to the conference is open for media representatives until 18:00 on October 21. For accreditation, please fill out the form on our website.

#VALDAI2022 #valdai_report #WorldOrder

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⏳🌐 The foundations of the so-called Versailles-Washington system of international relations were laid 100 years ago, in the summer of 1919.

It created one of the most unfair world orders, which was driven by the desire of the victorious nations to take maximum revenge over the defeated enemy. It was at the same time that the Covenant of the League of Nations was signed in the first deliberate attempt to establish a system of global governance.

The very concept of the League of Nations was based on the proposals articulated by US President Woodrow Wilson, who is regarded as the founding father of the doctrine that came to be known as the liberal world order. (There is some irony in the fact that the United States did not join the League of Nations, although the US President inspired its creation). Both the principles that underpinned the Versailles-Washington system and the League of Nations failed, but this bitter experience helped bring about a more resilient framework in the aftermath of the Second World War. It proved so durable that, at times, it seemed to be a natural form of human communication. Whether this idea was consistent with reality is another question.

It is through history that we can better understand the present. A retrospective view reaching far back into the depths of history helps us to separate the developments that actually matter from those that don’t, to identify the fundamental shifts and the ones that will soon be forgotten. History never repeats itself exactly, but the fact that some processes and developments keep reappearing in new iterations has to be taken into consideration when trying to get a glimpse of the future, write the authors of the Valdai Annual Report of 2019, titled "Time to Grow Up, or the Case for Anarchy".

https://valdaiclub.com/a/reports/annual-report-time-to-grow-up/

📑 This year, we will present the annual Valdai Club Report “A World Without Superpowers” within the framework of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone”. The conference will be held on October 24-27, 2022 in Moscow.

💡 The accreditation to the conference is open for media representatives until 18:00 on October 21. For accreditation, please fill out the form on our website.

#VALDAI2022 #valdai_report #WorldOrder

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🇧🇷 The focus of the world’s attention is on the presidential elections in Brazil.

After all, the question ‘who will be president of Brazil’ is by no means an idle one. It concerns the country's further development, the direction of its foreign policy, its positioning in the international arena in the light of Brazil's upcoming G20 chairmanship in 2024, the country's role in the UN and especially in its Security Council, where in 2022-2023 Brazil remains as a non-permanent member.

The main struggle flared up between the two main rivals, who expectedly made it to the second round – the right-wing incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and the leftist Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, the country' ex-president (2003-2010).

The current race is conspicuous for having the shortest official campaign in the history of democratic elections (46 days) and the longest time gap between two rounds (28 days, usually three weeks). Analysts dubbed this period “a 28-day night”, hinting at the unpredictability of the outcome of this “night”.

The results of the 2nd round are unpredictable, but whoever becomes the winner will be a world-class leader, who will have to respond to the complex and acute challenges of the disturbing modern world, writes Valdai Club expert Lyudmila Okuneva. Lyudmila is the participant of the expert discussion on the Brazil elections held by Valdai Discussion Club on October, 6. Watch the video of the discussion here — https://go.sv/LvZpg7

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/results-of-the-1st-round-of-the-general-elections/

#Norms_and_Values #Brazil #Bolsonaro #LuladaSilva

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⛔️ Despite the colossal damage from the sanctions, the Russian economy has shown a high threshold of stability.

✔️The authorities have managed to maintain financial stability.
✔️Export deliveries are being redirected to Asian markets.
✔️Critical imports are being replaced with substitutes from friendly countries.
✔️Russian business is actively exploring the niches of Western firms that have left the country.

The process hasn’t gone smoothly everywhere, and it is far from always possible to replace assets that are being disposed of with adequate analogues. However, the very system of life under sanctions is being consistently built and has a real chance of stability.

“Sanctions tsunami” against Russia is a sign of a bifurcation point. Its passage either will launch a reformatting of the world’s balance of power, or alternately, will preserve American hegemony in the global economy and in finance, writes Ivan Timofeev, Valdai Club Programme Director, in the run-up to the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. It will be held on October 24-27, 2022 in Moscow.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/sanctions-at-a-bifurcation-point/

#EconomicStatecraft #VALDAI2022 #sanctions

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🇨🇳🇷🇺 China is the most worthy global partner for Russia’s economy.

❓What aspects of China are most worthy of rediscovery by Russia?

1️⃣ First, China’s economic policy capabilities. China is only endowed with about one third of the natural resources of Russia, but China’s policymaking ability to release market vitality internally, allocate global resources externally, and promote its own long-term economic growth is worthy of re-discovered by Russia.

2️⃣ Second, China’s industrial manufacturing capacity, especially infrastructure construction capacity, is worthy of consideration. China’s industrial production capacity is the most diverse in the world: 666 industrial sub-categories have complete production chains in China, and China’s output of more than half of all industrial products ranks first in the world.

3️⃣ Third, China’s high-tech growth capacity. Over the past 30 years, China’s investment in high-tech has increased by more than 20% annually. China’s fear of falling behind amid the ongoing technological revolution is innate.

Against the backdrop of the United States’ continuous policy of containing China, the strengthening of economic cooperation between China and Russia as well as other non-Western countries is also an inevitable trend, writes Wang Wen, Executive Dean, Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/rediscover-russia-rediscover-china/

#Asia_and_Eurasia #China

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📆 TOMORROW at 9:30 a.m. (Moscow time) the opening of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone” will take place in Moscow. It will be held on October 24-27, 2022 in Moscow.

👥 The meeting will be attended by 111 experts, politicians, diplomats and economists from 41 countries, including Afghanistan, Brazil, China, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, the United States, Uzbekistan, and others. Much more than usual, there are participants from the Middle East and the Maghreb, Asia, Latin America, Africa and the CIS. At the same time, representatives of a number of Western countries have confirmed their participation.

🎙 The Valdai Club Annual meeting promises to be eventful: a record high of 17 sessions will take place during the working days of the meeting. This year the conference programme is divided into thematic blocks: each day will be devoted to one broad topic — politics, economics or humanitarian issues.

The following items are on the agenda:

• Russia in the confrontation with the West;
• The causes and consequences of the current geopolitical crisis around Ukraine;
• The end of globalisation and a new stage in the universal connectivity of the world;
• The return of nuclear weapons in world politics;
• Economic and technological war in new conditions;
• Values and communications in the modern world.

📑 The annual Valdai Club Report “A World Without Superpowers” will be presented at the conference. This year’s report is based on the Valdai Club’s hypothesis about the inevitable oblivion of the “superpower” concept.

📌 Programme of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club — https://go.sv/jDuy3y

Stay tuned for the updates on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, Twitter, VKontakte, Telegram and Zen.

#VALDAI2022

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🎥 Dear followers, you can watch open sessions of the the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone” live on our website.

Here are links to live broadcasts of the open sessions:

📆 October 24, Monday

09:30 – 09:40 — Opening of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club

In English: https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/opening-of-the-19th-annual-meeting-of-the-valdai-discussion-club-and-presentation-of-the-report/

In Russian: https://ru.valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/otkrytie-xix-ezhegodnogo-zasedaniya-kluba-valday-i-prezentatsiya-doklada/

09:40 – 11:10 — “A World Without Superpowers”: presentation of the Valdai Discussion Club’s annual report

In English: https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/opening-of-the-19th-annual-meeting-of-the-valdai-discussion-club-and-presentation-of-the-report/

In Russian: https://ru.valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/otkrytie-xix-ezhegodnogo-zasedaniya-kluba-valday-i-prezentatsiya-doklada/


📆 October 25, Tuesday

11:30 – 13:00 — Session 3. Economic Warfare as a Defining Trend in Global Development

In English: https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/economic-warfare-third-session/

In Russian: https://ru.valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/ekonomicheskaya-voyna-tretiya-sessiya/


📆 October 26, Wednesday

09:30 – 11:00 — Session 6. Values in the Modern World. What Is Their Balance for Genuine Equality?

In English: https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/values-in-the-modern-world-sixth-session/

In Russian: https://ru.valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/tsennosti-v-sovremennom-mire-shestaya-sessiya/


📆 October 27, Thursday

16:00 — Plenary session

In English: https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/plenary-session-of-the-19th-annual-meeting/

In Russian: https://ru.valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/plenarnaya-sessiya-v-ramkakh-xix-zasedaniya-kluba-valday/


The Conference will be held on October 24-27, 2022 in Moscow. For details, read the Programme of the 19th Annual Meeting — https://go.sv/jDuy3y

#VALDAI2022

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⏰ Good morning! Today at 9:30 a.m. (Moscow time) the opening of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone” will take place.

Programme for October 24, Monday

09:30 – 09:40 — Opening of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club

Live broadcast in English: https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/opening-of-the-19th-annual-meeting-of-the-valdai-discussion-club-and-presentation-of-the-report/

Live broadcast in Russian: https://ru.valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/otkrytie-xix-ezhegodnogo-zasedaniya-kluba-valday-i-prezentatsiya-doklada/

09:40 – 11:10 — “A World Without Superpowers”: Presentation of the Valdai Discussion Club’s Annual Report

One of the main consequences of the events of 2022 is a change in the global geopolitical structure. And it's not just the ultimate emergence of the polycentric world, it actually happened earlier. Now we can talk about another phenomenon taking shape: the concept of “superpower" has disappeared. No country, even the most powerful one, can determine the course of events in the world. World politics is formed in the process of complex interaction of different players.

Live broadcast in English: https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/opening-of-the-19th-annual-meeting-of-the-valdai-discussion-club-and-presentation-of-the-report/

Live broadcast in Russian: https://ru.valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/otkrytie-xix-ezhegodnogo-zasedaniya-kluba-valday-i-prezentatsiya-doklada/

11:30 – 13:00 — Session 1. The Past and the Future. How the Pandemic and the Military-Political Crisis Have Affected the International Situation

During the first thematic session of this year, the Club's guests will share their views on what is happening in the world and what development scenarios are possible.

General discussion

14:30 – 16:00 — Session 2. Cuban Missile Crisis After Sixty Years: Is Nuclear Deterrence Still in Place?

The story sometimes rhymes oddly. Fear of the nuclear threat, which served as an important deterrent sixty years ago, has now subsided, and does not force opponents to engage in a serious conversation about mutual guarantees and restraint. What does it take to get back on track with threat reduction negotiations? And will the current crisis prompt this?

16:30 – 18:00 — Meeting with the leadership of the executive and legislative authorities of the Russian Federation

19:30 – 21:00 — Special session. The Ukrainian Question – Its Origins and Consequences

For details, read the Programme of the 19th Annual Meeting — https://go.sv/jDuy3y

#VALDAI2022

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🎥 At 9:30 a.m. (Moscow time) the 19th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “A Post-Hegemonic World: Justice and Security for Everyone”, is opening in Moscow.

One of the main consequences of the events of 2022 is a change in the global geopolitical structure. And it's not just the ultimate emergence of the polycentric world, it actually happened earlier. Now we can talk about another phenomenon taking shape: the concept of “superpower" has disappeared. No country, even the most powerful one, can determine the course of events in the world. World politics is formed in the process of complex interaction of different players.

The Valdai Club’s annual report, titled “A World Without Superpowers”, explains what this means in practice.

Watch the live broadcast of the opening of the Conference and the Report presentation on our website:

https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/opening-of-the-19th-annual-meeting-of-the-valdai-discussion-club-and-presentation-of-the-report/

#VALDAI2022 #valdai_reports

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