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Turn to the East 2.0, or the Siberization of Russia

The tsarist, Soviet, and modern periods demonstrate that Siberia’s development has always strengthened Russia. Today, in the Second Turn to the East, the movement of Russia’s spiritual, economic, and political center toward the Urals and Siberia is a strategic necessity, in which Siberia serves as cultural core, innovation base, and driver of demographic and economic growth.

Russia’s Living Idea-Dream. The Code of the Russian in the 21st Century

Today, facing a new great challenge, we must make sense of our place in the world, who we are, and what we stand for. In other words, in the misty and mysterious sky of the future, we must discern our guiding star.

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Peace Will Come Only When Kiev Accepts Reality

Today, Russia’s objectives are similar in spirit: secure reliable borders, unlock the economic potential of its territory. The primary instrument for reaching these goals is military force. As long as fighting continues, that leverage exists. Once it stops, Russia will face coordinated diplomatic pressure from the same Western powers that defined victory in ideological terms for decades.

Fyodor Lukyanov: Russia Won the War – Can Russia Win the Peace?

Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, had a conversation with Glenn Diesen. In this interview, he argues that Russian demands for peace are not maximalist; rather, the consistent demands for restoring Ukraine’s neutrality became a territorial dispute as the conflict escalated over the years and grew more complex.

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Europe’s 19-Point Plan Is a Fantasy. Trump’s 28-Point Deal Is Only Half a Solution

The leak of a European “Coalition of the Willing” counter-proposal to the U.S. 28-point plan has clarified one thing: much of Europe is still negotiating with an imagined Russia and an imagined Ukraine.

When Will Sir Keir Starmer Talk to Vladimir Putin?

Starmer and Putin will speak sooner than we all expect. How soon is up to Starmer. It could depend on how much worse things get for his government. Rather than wait for doomsday, Starmer should recognise and use the spring in his jump on the world stage. It really would not hurt to give the Russian president a call. The alternative clearly has not achieved anything.

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Fyodor Lukyanov: Russia Won the War – Can Russia Win the Peace?

Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, had a conversation with Glenn Diesen. In this interview, he argues that Russian demands for peace are not maximalist; rather, the consistent demands for restoring Ukraine’s neutrality became a territorial dispute as the conflict escalated over the years and grew more complex.

“Putin Does Not Want to Attack NATO”

Upon returning from Sochi, where the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club had just concluded, our Editor-in-Chief, Fyodor Lukyanov, was interviewed by the Die Weltwoche daily (Switzerland).

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Dr. Chaos or: How to Stop Worrying and Love the Disorder

There is no doubt that today’s shifts are profound and are taking place across virtually all domains. That said, they cannot be viewed as an expression of someone’s deliberate will but should rather be regarded as a series of processes which were quite predictable and natural. These changes are not “the biggest since…” – they simply represent a new era that does not need to be compared to any other.

Turn to the East 2.0, or the Siberization of Russia

The tsarist, Soviet, and modern periods demonstrate that Siberia’s development has always strengthened Russia. Today, in the Second Turn to the East, the movement of Russia’s spiritual, economic, and political center toward the Urals and Siberia is a strategic necessity, in which Siberia serves as cultural core, innovation base, and driver of demographic and economic growth.

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Russia-South Korea Relations: On Bumpy Parallel Roads

The monograph by Anatoly Torkunov and Kim Hak-chun is undoubtedly unique; its release has become not only an outstanding event in the history of Korean studies in Russia and Russian studies in Korea, but also a milestone in the history of scientific and cultural cooperation between the two countries.

Inversion of U.S. Strategy

In 2020, about a year before the “escape from Kabul” drama began to unfold, the academic collection of essays entitled On Strategy: A Primer hit the shelves in the United States. Chief editor of this book Nathan Finney well represents the modern cohort of U.S. staff officers boasting a remarkable combination of professional military training and fundamental university education.

Valdai Papers

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The Legitimacy of the International Order in Eurasia

We can hardly expect that the international order, whether the global or Eurasian one, will be able to reproduce the “ideal” models known from history. We in Greater Eurasia have yet to develop our own criteria for successful coexistence – one that doesn’t create threats that would necessitate questioning the cherished principle of the inviolability of state sovereignty.

New Sanctions as a Political Signal

Apparently, the US sanctions are ushering in a new phase. The hawks in the Western camp have succeeded in shifting the American policy machine in their favour. The only difficulty is that Russia is unlikely to change its political course, and Ukraine will have to pay the price for the hawks’ triumph.