Russia in Global Affairs

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.

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.

Siberization – shifting the country’s center of gravity to the Urals and Siberia – is not just extremely beneficial, but also unavoidable, as the western, European vector has been blocked for the foreseeable future by Western policy that provoked the war in Ukraine.

Key global trends and challenges facing Russia require new approaches to its internal development, including the shifting of its center of spiritual, human, and economic development to the East – the “Siberization” of Russia. Siberia, with its multiculturalism, multiconfessionality, natural riches, and vast spaces, is an excellent springboard for Russia’s leap into the future.