Russia in Global Affairs

The new digital revolution and rising competition for global high-tech markets have increased their importance in the geopolitical conflict between the United States and China and, more broadly, in international relations. As a result, leadership is increasingly associated with the global redistribution of the “technological rent” and control of the digital markets as factors of [technological] sovereignty and structural power.

The innovative process, especially one so weak and fragile as in Russia, is very sensitive to external factors; it requires that politicians work in calm and silence. So the first simple and inexpensive step would be to revise the diplomatic lexicon and style.