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2 months ago | 
eng.globalaffairs.ru | Fyodor Lukyanov |Oleg Barabanov |Timofei Bordachev |Yaroslav Lissovolik
Five years may seem insignificant in historical terms, yet January 2020 already feels like the distant past. The Covid-19 pandemic reshaped not only our daily lives but also the global socio-political landscape, marking the end of one era and the start of another. The 50th Anniversary Forum in Davos in January 2020 offered a snapshot of a world on the verge of transformation.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
valdaiclub.com | Timofei Bordachev |Ivan Timofeev
There are many countries in Eurasia that still link their future to a world where the rules of the game are determined by the Americans. However, they do so only out of fear or because of the corruption of the elites. In most cases, the driving force is the expectation that obedience will become the source of funds needed to achieve the goals of national development and stability, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Timofei Bordachev.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
valdaiclub.com | Oleg Barabanov |Timofei Bordachev |Fyodor Lukyanov |Andrey Sushentsov
The value of trust is key to building productive and mutually beneficial international relations, both bilaterally and multilaterally. Only though mutual trust is it possible to consolidate and unite efforts between states to achieve common goals and defend common interests. This is equally important for both development tasks and for security. Without consolidation, it is difficult to be effective in the modern world.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
valdaiclub.com | Oleg Barabanov |Timofei Bordachev |Fyodor Lukyanov |Sanzhar Valiev
In the reassessment of identity, it is necessary for nations, countries and peoples to clearly take into account the impact on the state of security and stability of the future common space of coexistence. It is important that this does not act as a trigger for the Eurasian security system. Sanzhar Valiev reflects on the world order in the context of the analysis of the Valdai Club Annual report “The World From the Bottom Up or The Masterpieces of Eurasian Architecture”.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
valdaiclub.com | Timofei Bordachev
International politics seems to finally have lost its ability to pursue linear development. This, of course, is extremely sad from the point of view of the average person. However, if we look at what is happening beyond our expectations, whether they are genuine or not, then what is happening can cause significant interest and even elements of optimism.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
valdaiclub.com | Timofei Bordachev
The emergence, in 2022, of a large group of countries, which in the Russian foreign policy discourse is referred to as the “World Majority,” came as a most meaningful event in the modern-day international life.
The World Majority countries refused to be part of the economic and other sanctions imposed on Moscow by the West and have kept unchanged, or even expanded, trade and investment relations with Russia.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
valdaiclub.com | Timofei Bordachev
On October 10, the Valdai Discussion Club hosted a presentation of the report “The World Majority and Its Interests.”The moderator of the event, Timofey Bordachev, lead author and editor of the report, explained that this refers to the absolute majority of countries in the world that are not directly involved in either the military-political conflict between Russia and the West or the confrontation between China and the United States, and prefer not to take sides in these confrontations.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
valdaiclub.com | Timofei Bordachev
International politics is increasingly emerging from a state that is as beneficial to the average person as it is unnatural. As global and regional affairs become less and less linear, it will become more important to have the ability to deny outdated intellectual baggage, learn from new experiences, empathise and understand the motives of others and, finally, to stop being emotionally vested in what is happening.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
valdaiclub.com | Timofei Bordachev
Long ago, in October 1945, the legendary dystopian fiction writer George Orwell published a column titled "You and the Atomic Bomb". Addressing a wide readership, the 20th century literary luminary suggested that the impact of the technological innovation called nuclear weapons on the course of history would be much greater than anything that had ever happened before.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
valdaiclub.com | Timofei Bordachev
SCO, NATO and the Fate of International Cooperation. Part 1The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, unlike NATO, is not underscored by decades of tradition or any fundamental philosophy. It did not grow out of the experience of several centuries of interaction between states with relatively similar internal orders and a similar view of the world.
