🇫🇷 Macron’s political decay is gaining speed with every passing week.

While Barnier’s fall and Bayrou’s nomination as PM can be written off as superficial politics and only demonstrate a will to change nothing, the extent of Macron’s political failure in Mayotte gives a clear signal of the depth of the French crisis: the country is now unable to understand its own geographical dimension and sociocultural diversity.

France is under pressure either to become “EU only”, paying for Ukraine and other new EU candidates, thus with no remote dependences anymore, or to leave the EU and develop her empire according to her traditions.

The Eurocratic tyrant chose the former option and is now paying the bill in Mayotte, Olivier Roqueplo writes.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/eurocratic-emperor-macron-is-too-small-to-cope/

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📆 ANNOUNCEMENT: On January 23, 2025, at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion dedicated to the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and Russia’s policy in the South Caucasus.

After the Karabakh conflict, the situation in the South Caucasus remains quite tense and unstable. Armenia and Azerbaijan are currently in dialogue on the peace treaty parameters. Within its framework, on January 16, the parties agreed to begin work on delimiting the border. But the Azerbaijani and Armenian authorities continue to exchange accusations and harsh statements.

Sometimes Russia’s relations with Azerbaijan and Armenia also become complicated. This concerns, in particular, the prospects for Armenia’s participation in the CSTO and the EAEU, as well as the policy of integration with the European Union proclaimed by Yerevan. The recent tragedy with the AZAL airliner, which led to significant coverage in the media, became a test of relations with Azerbaijan.

❓What are the prospects for concluding a peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia?
❓How realistic is it to fulfil the peace conditions put forward by the two countries’ leaders?
❓What is the state of Russian-Azerbaijani and Russian-Armenian relations?
❓How are Russia’s interests and policies in the Caucasus changing in the context of increased interest in the region from other external players?

The participants in the discussion will address these and other issues.

🎙️ Speakers:

🇷🇺 Sergey Markedonov, Leading Researcher, Center for Euro-Atlantic Security, Institute of International Studies, MGIMO, Russian Foreign Ministry

🇦🇲 Alexander Iskandaryan, Director, Caucasus Institute (Yerevan)

🇷🇺 Nikolai Silaev, Leading Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO, Russian Foreign Ministry

🇷🇺 Kamran Gasanov, Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory and History of Journalism, Philological Faculty, RUDN University

Moderator:

🗣 Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director, Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/valdai-club-to-discuss-the-armenian-azerbaijani-relations-and-russia-s-policy/

Working languages: Russian, English.

ℹ️ Information for the media: In order to get accredited for the event, please fill out the form on our web site. If you have any questions about the event, please call +79269307763

Links to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram and Dzen.

#WorldMajority_WorldOrder #Caucasus #SouthCaucasus #Armenia #Azerbaijan

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📆 TOMORROW, January 23, 2025, at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion dedicated to the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and Russia’s policy in the South Caucasus.

❓What are the prospects for concluding a peace treaty between Azerbaijan and Armenia?
❓How realistic is it to fulfil the peace conditions put forward by the two countries’ leaders?
❓What is the state of Russian-Azerbaijani and Russian-Armenian relations?
❓How are Russia’s interests and policies in the Caucasus changing in the context of increased interest in the region from other external players?

The participants in the discussion will address these and other issues.

ℹ️ Information for the media: In order to get accredited for the event, please fill out the form on our web site. If you have any questions about the event, please call +79269307763

Links to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VK, Telegram and Dzen.

#WorldMajority_WorldOrder #Caucasus #SouthCaucasus #Armenia #Azerbaijan

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🎥 LIVE: at 11:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), we are starting an expert discussion dedicated to the Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and Russia’s policy in the South Caucasus.

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239245

#WorldMajority_WorldOrder #Caucasus #SouthCaucasus #Armenia #Azerbaijan

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💻 The role of some modern, digital media and social platforms as spreaders of fake news and accelerators of disinformation, aggressive nationalism, xenophobia, racism or even fascism is secondary.

They amplify and spread disinformation and stereotypes originally produced mostly by traditional media and state actors, writes Petros Papaconstantinou.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/information-and-surveillance/

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🇦🇲🇦🇿 Media Storms and Maximalist Bar: International Relations in the South Caucasus

On January 23, 2025, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion dedicated to Armenian-Azerbaijani relations and Russia’s policy in the South Caucasus. The discussion was moderated by Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

💬 Nikolay Silaev, Leading Researcher at the Institute for International Studies at MGIMO University, called for the media agenda to be separated from the diplomatic one and for focus to not be fixated on intermittent “media storms”, but on the constant factors that influence relations in the region. He noted that in recent years, Azerbaijan had enjoyed certain diplomatic achievements, and one of them was the exclusion of mediators from negotiations with Armenia. At the same time, the parties are still far from concluding a peace treaty.

💬 Kamran Gasanov, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Theory and History of Journalism of the Philological Faculty of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, believes that the obstacles to the conclusion of a peace treaty between Armenia and Azerbaijan are gradually being removed. The issue of border delimitation remains an obstacle, which is being dealt with very slowly. The issue of territorial claims has not yet been resolved, but some progress has been noticeable. Gasanov believes that Russia’s positions in the South Caucasus are currently strengthening. The current dynamics in relations with Georgia can be considered evidence of this.

💬 Alexander Iskandaryan, Director of the Caucasus Institute in Yerevan, pointed out that the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, which has long ceased to be called the “Karabakh conflict” and has a much broader nature, has not yet come to an end, and the peace process, in fact, has not moved forward. The preparation of a peace treaty, despite all the optimistic statements of diplomats, is actually stalling, beset by political rather than legal problems. The conflict continues, albeit not on the battlefield.

💬 “The problem with the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict until the last moment was that the parties themselves did not want a settlement. They wanted a victory, a maximalist bar,” said Sergei Markedonov, leading researcher at the Centre for Euro-Atlantic Security at the Institute for International Studies at MGIMO University. In his opinion, the new status quo is simply a change in the positions of the parties – the losers give in, the winners make a show and go on. “The conflict continues precisely because the parties themselves do not see a compromise settlement,” he is convinced.

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/media-storms-and-maximalist-bar/

#WorldMajority_WorldOrder #Caucasus #SouthCaucasus #Armenia #Azerbaijan

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