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💾 The Excitement of Digitalisers and the First Law of Robotics

We live in two worlds — real and virtual. The online world is borderless, and it is not clear whether the same laws should apply to it as offline, or if it can exist according to its own rules, without relying on accepted international and national norms. Is there any place, for example, for the right to privacy?

Participants of the Valdai Club session, which was held on June 3 within the framework of SPIEF-2021, spoke about virtual (in)violability.

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💡 What is the difference between energy efficiency and energy saving?

💡 Which of these strategies will help to reduce energy risks in the future?

💡 How quickly can society shift to new technologies?

You can find out more about these things and more from our video infographic "Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving".

👉 This infographic was prepared especially for tomorrow's special session of the Valdai Club within the framework of the SPIEF-2022, titled “Self-sufficiency and cooperation: features of the modern political economy”.

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TODAY at 3:00 p.m. Moscow Time, as part of the business program of the SPIEF-2022, the Valdai Discussion Club will hold a special session titled “Self-sufficiency and cooperation: features of the modern political economy”.

The participants of the Valdai Club session will consider the following issues:

What does self-sufficiency mean in the modern world?
How does it combine with interaction in various formats?
How will the transformation of globalisation end?
On what principles will relations between the West and non-Western countries be built, taking into account the crisis of Western international institutions?

A link to the live broadcast of the session will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, TwitterVKontakte and Telegram.

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🌐🇷🇺 Is sustainable globalisation possible without Russia?

A harsh sanctions response to the military conflict in Ukraine has become a reality. In the future, its real consequences will become clear: whether Russia itself will actually be able to withstand the pressure of sanctions, and whether the West and the global economic system will retain the ability to grow and develop a sustainable economy without Russia.

If we talk about the specific challenges of globalisation stemming from the current conflict, then in the short and medium term they are obvious, and they are being talked about a lot now:

⚠️ the global food crisis
⚠️ the lack of energy resources
⚠️ the resulting rise in prices, inflation and living standards
⚠️ the disruption of global supply chains

All this can lead to serious social discontent in various countries of the global West and South. In the longer term, the undermining of confidence in the dollar and the inviolability of the private property of foreigners in Western countries may become a no-less-significant issue. 

There have already been many examples in history of Russia setting up large-scale socio-economic experiments domestically. Now we are all witnessing how another such experiment is developing - globalisation without Russia, writes Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.

📍The article was prepared especially for today's special session of the Valdai Club within the framework of the SPIEF-2022, titled “Self-sufficiency and cooperation: features of the modern political economy”. Watch it live at 3 p.m. Moscow time.

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📷 On June 16, the Valdai Club held a special session titled “Self-sufficiency and cooperation: features of the modern political economy”, within the framework of the #SPIEF-2022.

Photo gallery of the discussion is available in our VK account.

The video of the discussion is available via this link.

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💎 Our infographic "Self-Sufficient Countries of the World" is devoted to today's special session of the Valdai Club “Self-sufficiency and cooperation: features of the modern political economy” within the framework of the #SPIEF2022.

The video of the discussion is available via this link.

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🗺 Globalisation Is Set to Continue, but According to New Rules

On Thursday, June 16, a Valdai Club session, titled “Self-sufficiency and Cooperation: Features of Modern Political Economy”, was held as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2022.

The participants in the session, moderated by Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Valdai Club, discussed the restructuring of the global economic system, which has demonstrated the need for self-sufficiency and the inevitability of cooperation.

💬 Rasigan Maharajh, Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation at the Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa), raised the topic of global inequality, which was recently highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic. He compared unequal access to vaccines to apartheid, pointing out that the price of a vaccine dose in Africa, the poorest continent, is the highest in the world.

💬 According to Jacques Sapir, director of research at the Paris School of Social Sciences (EHESS), the pandemic has put the final nail in the coffin of globalisation. The very idea of free trade has been called into question. Already today we see that the notion of global trade is actually crumbling under the sanctions. Therefore, self-sufficiency will become a priority for an increasing number of states.

💬 The subject of curtailing globalisation was also touched upon by Vladimir Chizhov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the European Union. According to him, the world has recently faced a number of global challenges: “one may call it a ‘perfect storm’, while another uses other epithets, but this is definitely not the ‘end of history’.” Chizhov said that these challenges include the vaccine race that unfolded during the pandemic; the persistent drive of the European Union to abandon the system of long-term contracts for the supply of energy, which resulted in a price hike; food security; as well as the problem of IT giants, which neither the US nor the EU can cope with. The West’s response to this set of problems has been a search for a culprit, which Russia was declared to be, but this does not help solve the problems.

💬 If we are talking about globalisation according to Western rules, then it is really winding down, said Wang Wen, Executive Dean of the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies (RDCY), Deputy Dean of the Silk Road School, Renmin University of China. The way the US influences global trends winds up pushing non-Western countries towards self-sufficiency. However, while striving for less dependence on the US, they must simultaneously think about cooperation and the advantages of the global market. Future globalisation will be more balanced and inclusive, Wang Wen said.

💬 According to Stanislav Georgievsky, Vice President of the Russian Export Center, the creation of a second and third security loop will be one of the motives for making decisions on trade blocs and joint investments in the face of a possible disconnection of non-Western countries from systems such as SWIFT.

💬 Sanctions are harmful, but inefficient, said Bijan Khajehpour, managing partner of Eurasian Nexus Partners (EUNEPA), an Iranian consulting company. They are inefficient in the sense that they affect society and the economy and cause real damage, but do not achieve their goals. Iran is a vivid example of the fact that it is impossible to change a country with sanctions.

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📆 #SPIEF: On June 15 at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), a session of the Valdai Discussion Club titled “The New World Economy — Not Global, But Interconnected” will take place as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2023.

📍Featuring Andrey Belousov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the session will be held in Conference Hall G6 in Pavilion G of the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Centre. It will be open to all forum guests and will be broadcast on the Club’s website.

The world has been radically changed by the events of the early 2020s, including the pandemic and the military-political crisis in Europe, part of which is Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. The liberal-style globalisation that has developed since the 1980s is giving way to another form of relationship. The shift in weight and roles of East and West, North and South in the world economy, as well as gross political intervention and the economic war unleashed by the West against Russia, have led everyone to the understanding that there will be no return to a centralised world system.

Against this background, a radical reorganisation of almost all markets is taking place — from raw materials and consumer markets to technological and cultural ones: commodity and machine-building flows are being transformed; many states are urgently adapting to new suppliers; market shares are changing. The interconnection remains, but new forms and chains are being built, and this is the reason behind the topic of this year’s Valdai Club session.

The Valdai Club invites speakers from Russia, India, China, and Malaysia to reflect on the nature and scale of change, assess the impact of trends on the countries and regions they represent and their ties with Russia, and to present new areas and forms of joint work.

🎙Speakers:

🇷🇺 Andrey Belousov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

🇮🇳 Arvind Gupta, head and co-founder of the Digital India Foundation

🇨🇳 Gong Jiong, Professor, Vice President for Research and Strategic Studies, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)

🇲🇾 Benedict Weerasena, scientific director of the Bait al-Amanah think tank, Malaysia

Moderator:

🚩 Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/session-of-the-valdai-discussion-club-at-the-st-petersburg-international-economic-forum-2023/

Working languages: Russian, English.

📍Venue: Expoforum, Congress Centre, Conference Hall G6, Petersburg Highway, 64/1, St. Petersburg

Access to the event is possible for SPIEF 2023 participants and journalists accredited at the Forum.

A link to the live broadcast of the session will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the Twitter, Telegram and Dzen.

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📆 #SPIEF: On Thursday, June 15, at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), a session of the Valdai Discussion Club titled “The New World Economy — Not Global, But Interconnected” will take place as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2023.

📍Featuring Andrey Belousov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the session will be held in Conference Hall G6 in Pavilion G of the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Centre. It will be open to all forum guests and will be broadcast on the Club’s website.

The world has been radically changed by the events of the early 2020s, including the pandemic and the military-political crisis in Europe, part of which is Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.

The Valdai Club invites speakers from Russia, India, China, and Malaysia to reflect on the nature and scale of change, assess the impact of trends on the countries and regions they represent and their ties with Russia, and to present new areas and forms of joint work.

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/session-of-the-valdai-discussion-club-at-the-st-petersburg-international-economic-forum-2023/

Access to the event is possible for SPIEF 2023 participants and journalists accredited at the Forum.

A link to the live broadcast of the session will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the TwitterTelegram and Dzen.

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TODAY at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), a session of the Valdai Discussion Club titled “The New World Economy — Not Global, But Interconnected” will take place as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2023.

The participants in the Valdai Club session will discuss the following issues:

How will the new economic system be built — still unified and interconnected, but not global in the previous sense?
What are its opportunities and risks?
Which countries and regions will be the main beneficiaries in this situation, and who will suffer losses?

A link to the live broadcast of the session will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the TwitterTelegram and Dzen.

#SPIEF #valdaiclub #WorldEconomy

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🌐 The resulting challenge to international relations can lead to political decisions to change global economic integration. This process is called geoeconomic fragmentation.

👉 Especially for the session of the Valdai Discussion Club at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2023, we created an infographic on the new world economy. The high-res infographic is available on the website.

#SPIEF #valdaiclub #WorldEconomy

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🇷🇺🌏 The World Is Crumbling, but Not Collapsing: The Valdai Club Discussed Current Trends and Future Scenarios at SPIEF-2023

On June 15, as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2023, the Valdai Club hosted a session, titled “The New World Economy — Not Global, But Interconnected”, featuring Andrey Belousov, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.

The concept of a “crumbling world” was coined by the Valdai Club’s researchers in 2017-2018. At that time, the concept describing a process whereby the institutions and structures of the post-Cold War world cease to function, caused objectionsof many experts. However, the pandemic began — and it turned out that the deformation and deconstruction of regulatory systems can occur much faster than we had imagined, Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Club, recalled in his opening speech. Today we see how politics, like an icebreaker, interferes with economic issues, and what seemed impossible yesterday, because it was irrational, is happening right now. At the same time, the crumbling world does not fall apart: it remains extremely interconnected in the economic, informational and cultural sense. Lukyanov invited the participants of the session to comprehend this new interconnectedness and try to determine which principles now define the functioning of the world.

Follow this link to know the key points of the discussion.

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📆 #SPIEF: On June 6 at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024, the Valdai Discussion Club will hold its ninth annual special session for the event: “Conflict or Harmony? The Secret of Proper Development in the 21st Century.”

📍The event will take place in Conference Hall G2 at Pavilion G of the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will be open to all Forum attendees. The session will also be livestreamed on the Club’s website.

The theme of this year’s Valdai Club discussion is based on the premise that modern conflicts are a legacy of a past era and not a means to shape a future one. Instead, the future success of global and national development depends on our ability to avoid conflict. 

The Valdai Club will provide an opportunity for experts from Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa to present views that differ from Western concepts and discuss ways of promoting conflict-free harmonious development.

Participants in the Valdai Club session will consider the following issues:

How could interstate contradictions be resolved without clashes?
What conditions contribute to the harmonious development of diverse societies?
How can we overcome inequality, which gives rise to social conflicts and leads to political conflict?
Is the global community prepared to recognize the futility of conflict and seek new paths of development?

By tradition, the Valdai Club session at SPIEF-2024 will be opened by Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club.

🎙️ Speakers:

🇮🇳 Ram Madhav Varanasi, President of the India Foundation (India)

🇿🇦 Gustavo De Carvalho, Senior Research Fellow for Russian-African Relations at the South African Institute of International Affairs (South Africa)

🇮🇩 Rahakundini Bakrie Connie, professor at St. Petersburg State University (Indonesia)

🇨🇳 Wang Huiyao, Founder and President of Center for China and Globalization (China)

🇷🇺 Ruslan Yunusov, Co-founder Russian Quantum Centre

Moderator:

🗣 Fyodor Lukyanov, Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/conflict-or-harmony-the-secret-of-proper-development-in-the-21st-century/

Working languages: Russian, English.

ℹ️ Venue:  Conference Hall G2, Pavilion G of the Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Centre, Petersburg highway 64/1, St. Petersburg.

Admission to the event is possible for
SPIEF-2024 participants and journalists accredited at the Forum.

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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 TODAY at 15:00 Moscow Time (GMT+3), as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024, the Valdai Discussion Club will hold its ninth annual special session for the event: “Conflict or Harmony? The Secret of Proper Development in the 21st Century.”

📍The event will take place in Conference Hall G6 at Pavilion G of the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre, and will be open to all Forum attendees. The session will also be livestreamed on the Club’s website.

Participants in the Valdai Club session will consider the following issues:

How could interstate contradictions be resolved without clashes?
What conditions contribute to the harmonious development of diverse societies?
How can we overcome inequality, which gives rise to social conflicts and leads to political conflict?
Is the global community prepared to recognize the futility of conflict and seek new paths of development?

Admission to the event is possible for SPIEF-2024 participants and journalists accredited at the Forum.

Links to the live broadcast of the discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the 
websiteX (formerly Twitter)VKTelegram and Dzen.

#SPIEF #SPIEF2024 #valdaiclub

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🗣 On June 6, 2024, the Valdai Discussion Club held its special session “Conflict or Harmony? The Secret of Proper Development in the 21st Century,” as part of the business programme of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2024.

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🗣 Is Progress Possible Without Conflict? Valdai Club Session at SPIEF 2024

As part of the business program at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), a session of the Valdai Club took place on June 6. The event’s participants explored the question of whether global and national development can occur without conflict and violence.

Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club, noted in his introductory remarks that conflicts that stem from the past continue to dominate our world, yet the majority of people in the world do not wish to be involved in them and are seeking ways to avoid being drawn into them.

Fyodor Lukyanov, Valdai Club Research Director, who served as moderator for the session, pointed out that the notion of conflict as a catalyst for growth is embedded in the Western perception of progress, which is no longer the dominant perspective. He emphasized that countries with different philosophies are playing an increasing role on the global stage and invited participants to consider a world governed by different principles.

📑 Read an article on the Valdai Club session at SPIEF

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