🏙 Climate, Urbanism, Intelligence, Identity, and the Russia Hub. Day 3 of the Valdai Club Annual Meeting

On Wednesday, October 20, the Valdai Club experts continued their work. The third day of the Annual Meeting was very eventful: four sessions were held, including a special session, as well as a meeting with Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. 

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/climate-urbanism-intelligence-identity-and-the-russia-hub-day-3/

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🎥 On the third day of the 18th Annual Meeting the Valdai Club experts took part in four sessions, including special one, and had a meeting with the Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin.

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👋 Dear friends! Today is Day 4 of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Club, titled “Global Shake-Up in the 21st Century: The Individual, Values, and the State”.

📆 October 21, Thursday — Programme

10:00–11:30 — Session 7. Russia as a Solution. What Did the Shocks Teach Russia and How Is This Useful to the World?

This session will be held under the Chatham House Rule. An analytical note following the day’s discussions will be available on our website.

👥 Speakers:

🔹 Valery Fyodorov, Director General, Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM)

🔹 Sergey Karaganov, Academic Supervisor, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE); Honorary Chairman of the Presidium, Council on Foreign and Defense Policy

🔹 Tigran Khudaverdyan, Deputy CEO, Yandex Group of companies

🔹 Maxim Oreshkin, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Moderator:

🚩 Raghida Dergham, Founder and Executive Chairman, Beirut Institute; Columnist, The National, Annahar Al Arabi (Lebanon)

11:30–13:00 — Open Discussion (watch live) — https://bit.ly/3aVQ9WV

Moderator:

🚩 Alexander Rahr, Senior Fellow, WeltTrends Institute for International Politics; Scientific Director, German-Russian forum

❗️17:00 — Plenary session (watch live) — https://bit.ly/3n7ifnM

🔗 Programme of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club

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🎥 LIVE: at 11:30 (Moscow time) the Open Discussion within the framework of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Club will start.

Moderator:

🚩 Alexander Rahr, Senior Fellow, WeltTrends Institute for International Politics; Scientific Director, German-Russian forum

🔗 Open Discussion (watch live)

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🧠🏙 What is the main asset in the 21st century that is being fought for? At different times, these were territories, mineral deposits, labour force, transport routes, sometimes even ideological orientations. Now there is a battle for technological primacy, which means intellect, information and the ability to innovate in the broadest sense: from socio-cultural to military. What is the content of this truly "hybrid", nonlinear competition?

👉 We created an animated infographic devoted to the fifth session of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Club, titled “What to Fight for? Intellect as the Prime Object of Competition in the 21st Century”.

🔗 Intelligence as the main subject of competition in the 21st century

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🗽❓ Restraining the excesses of liberalism

As the relative power of the West steadily declines, the role of liberalism in domestic and international politics recedes.

After the Cold War, the “end of history” thesis was largely internalised and expressed with the assumption that the entire world would unify under liberal principles, which would be enforced under the benign leadership of the US. As the international distribution of power shifts, Western states have increasingly expressed their concerns about the decline of the so-called “liberal international order”.

Restraining the excesses of liberalism is a positive and necessary correction as unfettered liberalism has undermined domestic and international stability. The system has not self-corrected as liberal ideology has blinded the West by the certainty of its own righteousness.

We have now reached the breaking point where the current state of affairs no longer work, writes Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and participant at the 18th Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.

🔗 Restraining the excesses of liberalism

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🌏 One of the big problems is that the Soviet experience and the “post-Soviet” identity are rapidly becoming obsolete. We need a new ideology for the greater union, in the name of which we may build international cooperation and implement reforms, writes Rakhim Oshakbayev, speaker of the special session “30 years of new Eurasia - results and prospects” at the 18th Annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club, Director of the TALAP Center for Applied Research.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/greater-eurasia-30-years-on/

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🎥 LIVE: The Plenary session within the framework of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Valdai Club “Global Shake-Up in the 21st Century: The Individual, Values, and the State” will start soon.

🔗 The live broadcast in English is available at valdaiclub.com

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🌐 Lessons from the Pandemic and Lessons from History. Day 4 of the Valdai Club Annual Meeting

Traditionally, the culmination of the Annual meeting of the Valdai Club is a plenary session in which the President of Russia participates. This year’s event was no exception. Before that, however, the final, seventh session of the forum was held, titled “Russia as a Solution. What Did the Shocks Teach Russia and How Is This Useful to the World?” It was followed by an open discussion.

🔗 Lessons from the Pandemic and Lessons from History

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