4️⃣ LIVE: at 9:30 Moscow time, Session 4 “Interconnection Instead of Dictate: A Global Economy Without Currency Monopoly and Punitive Measures” will start within the framework of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239124

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🎥 On Monday, October 2, the 20th Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club opened in Sochi on the topic “Fair Multipolarity: How to Ensure Security and Development for Everyone.”

The first day featured three working sessions, as well as a presentation of the annual Valdai Club Report and a meeting of participants with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

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🎥 Nourhan ElSheikh: The Russian Grain Must Be Available in the World Market Without Restrictions

According to Nourhan ElSheikh, Professor of Political Science, Cairo University, the world is facing a very critical food crisis. One of the main solutions is that the Russian grain must be available in the world market without restrictions from the collective West. Otherwise the food situation will deteriorate more and more.

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🗣 The World Is Getting Closer to Real Multipolarity: The Time Has Come for Creative Solutions

On Monday, October 2, the 20th Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club opened in Sochi on the topic “Fair Multipolarity: How to Ensure Security and Development for Everyone”. The first day featured three working sessions, as well as a presentation of the annual Valdai Club Report and a meeting of participants with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. 

In his greeting to the forum participants, Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Valdai Club, emphasised that the formation of a new world, which is happening before our eyes, does not entail the complete disappearance of the old one: the future is rising from its elements. Therefore, the task that the authors of the Annual Report set for themselves is to understand what principles and rules govern this process, in the context of the destruction of cumbersome hierarchies. Finding an answer to this question is also one of the tasks facing the participants of the Annual Meeting. 

Two authors took part in the presentation of the report, which was broadcast live (the recording is available on our website): Timofei Bordachev and Andrey Sushentsov, programme directors of the Valdai Club. The moderator was British historian Richard Sakwa, a long-time participant in the Club’s meetings. 

📑 Read a summery of the first day of the 20th Annual meeting

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4️⃣ The second day of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club started with Session 4 “Interconnection Instead of Dictate: A Global Economy Without Currency Monopoly and Punitive Measures.”

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🎥 The video of the session is available via this link.

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📷 On October 3, participants in the Valdai Club’s 20th Annual Meeting in Sochi met with Alexander Novak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

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⚔️ The widespread use of hybrid war tools in modern international relations brings us back to the classic maxim of Thomas Hobbes that relations between states are doomed to anarchy.

The state of peace is temporary, and at any moment can turn into a state of war.

Modern realities suggest that the absence of armed struggle can be combined with a permanent hybrid confrontation.

That is, anarchy goes much further and deeper than the classical political theorists observed. 

The key practical problem of hybrid warfare is that it is extremely difficult to control via conventional diplomatic means. You can stop the armed struggle by concluding a truce or a peace agreement. But how can two belligerent parties agree on the end of a hybrid war? 

Hybrid warfare is easy to start and even easier to accelerate its momentum. Stopping it is extremely difficult, if not impossible. Moreover, a smouldering and self-sustaining hybrid war may well devalue political agreements and diplomatic efforts.

The termination of hybrid wars and their transformation into a hybrid peace is the fundamental problem of modern diplomacy, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Ivan Timofeev.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/hybrid-war-and-hybrid-peace/

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5️⃣ Session 5 of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “The Russian Economy: Against All Odds or Thanks to the Shake-Up?”

📷 Photo gallery

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📊 Especially for the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, we created an infographic on GDP of major economies and government debt. Follow this link to find the full infographic.

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🎥 Arvind Gupta: Digital Technologies Change Global Financial System

How will the global financial system change due to the implementation of new digital technologies? What new payment systems emerge and why is this important for society? Arvind Gupta, Head and Co-founder of Digital India Foundation shared his views at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

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🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 It is our good luck to have Russia presiding over the BRICS in 2024 and Brazil, in 2025 – precisely the two countries that seem to be most interested in moving towards the creation of a common or reference currency.

If everything runs smoothly, the BRICS may be able to take the decision to create a currency during the Summit in Russia next year. By the Summit in Brazil, in 2025, the BRICS will perhaps be able to announce the first steps towards its establishment, writes Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., Brazilian economist, Vice President of the New Development Bank (NDB) from 2015 to 2017, Executive Director for Brazil and other countries in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2007 to 2015. 

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/brics-financial-and-monetary-initiatives/

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💸 In 2023, the topic of abandoning the dollar as the main world currency became relevant as never before.

When and why the US dollar began to play the main role in international transfers and what is its position now, what alternatives have appeared you can learn from our video infographic.

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📷 The meeting with Maxim Oreshkin, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation, took place today within the framework of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

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6️⃣ Session 6 of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “Energy Markets Amid Military and Political Tensions: How Will They Develop?”

📷 Photos are available via this link.

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🗣 Good morning! Today is the third day of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club “Fair Multipolarity: How to Ensure Security and Development for Everyone.”
 
📆 Programme for October 4, Wednesday
 
10:00 – 11:30 — Session 7. Science and Education in the Age of Confrontation

12:00 – 13:30 — Session 8. Russian Civilisation Through the Centuries (LIVE)

Russia is a country of European culture, but this is not its only characteristic. The Russian cultural and social structure has absorbed important elements of various non-European cultures and traditions, resulting in a unique fusion. This is the basis for the development of a national identity, which is now described as a “distinctive state-civilization”.

14:30 – 16:00 — Session 9. Russian Society in the Era of Transformation

16:30 – 18:00 — Meeting with Alexei Overchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

19:30 – 21:00 — Special session. The Post-Soviet Space: Lessons of the Past, Contours of the Future

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/programme-of-the-20th-annual-meeting-of-the-valdai-discussion-club/

A link to the live broadcast of the open session will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VKontakte, Telegram and Dzen.

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🎥 Alan Freeman: Optimism in Russia Despite the Present Economic Warfare

According to Alan Freeman, Co-Director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Institute, the session on the Russian economy at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club was one of the most interesting.

“The most fascinating thing was a certain degree of optimism despite the present economic warfare. The Russian economy not only survived despite the sanctions, but becomes stronger. Anyway, the speakers identified the problems. The Americans said all the time that everything Russia was doing is wrong, and now Russia is responsible for all the troubles in the world. The response should be the sense of the Russian identity, the sense of the Russian history, the sense of Russia's contribution to the world, the sense of the right direction.”

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8️⃣ LIVE: at 12:00 pm Moscow time we will start broadcasting of Session 8 of the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, titled “Russian Civilisation Through the Centuries.”

https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239125

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🪨 Especially for the 20th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, we created an infographic on distribution of the main natural resources - hydrocarbons, coal, rare earth metals. The full infographic is available via this link.

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🎥 On Tuesday, October 3, 20th Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club continued.

On this day, three working sessions took place, as well as meetings of participants with Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak and Assistant to the President of Russia Maxim Oreshkin. 

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