🗣 On March 5, the opening of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference "Valdai Club: World in 2040" took place place as part of the World Youth Festival. Session 1 "The Future of World Politics in 2040" followed the opening.

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🎥 LIVE: at 17:30 Moscow time (GMT +3), we are starting the open discussion "Valdai-2040: Looking Into the Future", within the framework of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference.

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239179

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🗣 Session 2 of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference, titled "Dialogue of Cultures in a Polycentric World".

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🗣 Session 3 of the Valdai Club's Youth Conference, titled "Technological Development as a Challenge and an Opportunity».

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🔬 Scientific progress through the global knowledge commons has afforded us the evolutionary capacity to create technological solutions to endure the challenges presented by our ecology and to secure our very survival.

But we need to recognise the combined yet uneven distribution of productive capabilities which excludes the global majority from sharing in the benefits of our collective ingenuity, writes Rasigan Maharajh, Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa).

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/science-technology-and-innovation-for-a-better/

📍This article is based on his presentation at the Valdai Club’s Youth Conference as part of the World Youth Festival.

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🗣 The first Youth Conference of the Valdai Club was completed by the open discussion "Valdai-2040: Looking Into the Future".

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⛔️ Amid the second anniversary of the start of the Special Military Operation (SVO) in Ukraine, a number of Western countries and associations launched a new set of sanctions against Russia, as expected.

💢 The most significant package of restrictive measures was introduced by the United States. More than 500 Russian citizens and organisations were included in the list of blocked entities. Secondary sanctions against a number of companies from third countries cooperating with Russia can be considered equally common. 

💢 As for the EU, the new sanctions have their own characteristic: 87 organisations and 105 individuals were included in the lists of blocked persons. However, even here the structure of the distribution of sanctions changes little. The new secondary EU sanctions have become peculiar. A number of companies from Turkey, Thailand, Kazakhstan, China, Serbia, India, Singapore, Uzbekistan and Sri Lanka have been listed in Annex IV of Regulation 833/2014.

💢 The UK has extended blocking financial sanctions to a number of large Russian industrial companies. The country has also decided to introduce secondary sanctions against Russia’s partners from third countries, but unlike Brussels, it has applied the mechanism of blocking sanctions to them. They include companies from Turkey, China, the UAE and Switzerland. 

💢 The lists of blocked persons have also been expanded or are about to be expanded by Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. 

In quantitative terms, the number of Russian companies and citizens subject to restrictive measures was indeed high. However, the latest wave of sanctions does not bring qualitative changes - their impact on the Russian economy and its relations with foreign partners is unlikely to be fundamental, writes Ivan Timofeev, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/new-sanctions-against-russia-taking-a-swing/

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⏰ TODAY at 12:00 noon Moscow time, the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion titled “The West against the rest of the world: the role of the G20 in harmonising approaches to global development and promoting sustainable multilateralism.”

❓What could serve as the sustainable harmonisation of different positions in a multipolar world?
❓Is greater consolidation possible among non-Western G20 members?
❓Is there the political will for a constructive dialogue within the G20?
❓How can the G20 format be more effective in bridging the gap between Western and non-Western approaches to global politics, economics and social development?

Participants in the discussion will try to answer these and other questions.

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.

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🎥 LIVE: at 12:00 noon Moscow time, we are starting an expert discussion titled “The West against the rest of the world: the role of the G20 in harmonising approaches to global development and promoting sustainable multilateralism.”

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239180

#GlobalAlternatives #G20

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