Russia in Global Affairs

Several major transportation projects can significantly reshape the economic map of the world. In this regard, the three C’s (confidence-building measures, cooperation, and complementarity) are the key factors in attaining sustainable security for the transport corridors’ operation in the Middle East.

The World Majority’s social platforms should be viewed not only as local alternatives, but also as hubs around which a community can determine its future development.

Europe is struggling to adapt to a new multipolar world, but to be able to turn around, it has to radically change its self-perception and modus operandi, stepping out of the West-dominated path of arrogant and obsolete order planning. With the rise of the Global South, the arrival of the AI revolution, and especially the return of Trump, the inner workings of Europe’s understanding of the world order actually reveal fears of different outcomes for the future evolution of that order.

Despite widespread anticipation of possible changes in US-Russia relations in the wake of Trump’s return to power, the shift has been more drastic and rapid than anyone could have imagined.

On November 7, 2024, Sochi hosted the plenary session of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club “Security for Each and Everyone. Together Into a New World” with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The session was moderated by Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of the Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Research Director of the Foundation of the Valdai Club.

These days, November 4-7, 2024, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club is being held in Sochi. You can watch the live broadcast of the plenary session of the 21st Annual Meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club on our website on November 7. Stay tuned for updates.

The world continues to be driven by three famous elements of Realism: “self-help, statism, and survival”.

The growing bitterness of Western countries towards Russia is consistent with the logic of ‘preventive war’ in the initiation of armed conflicts. Rather than linking interstate confrontations with aggressive opportunism, this model views escalation as a product of fears about the future. Throughout history, major wars, as a rule, became the product of precisely this preventive logic – the desire to strike in advance of an expected weakening.

On 24 February 2022, the Russia-Ukraine conflict broke out. Now, two years on, it still rages. On the second anniversary of this geopolitical conflict, one should look at what lessons we can learn from the perspective of forms of warfare, the international order, and wartime narratives.