According to his press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin’s speech at the Valdai discussion club will then be «read and reread».
Key statements:
- There is degradation of world institutions, the erosion of the principle of collective security, the substitution of international law by «rules».
- There is no unity in the West. Events in the world continue to develop according to a negative scenario, which escalated into a systemic crisis.
- But the West will have to start an equal dialogue about our common future.
- 💬 «Look at yourself! Wiggle your brains. Lay out your point of view conceptually. You can’t blame “hand of the Kremlin” for everything».
- 💬 «They are simply crazy… They are shy about nothing. Soleimani was killed … What is it all about? This was directly stated. Where do we live?»
- 💬 «Russia, being an independent, original civilization, does not consider itself an enemy of the West. But there are two West — the traditional West, primarily of Christian values, with which we have common ancient roots, and the cosmopolitan West, acting as a tool of the liberal elites. Russia will never accept the dictate of this West.»
- 💬 «The message was one — let’s live together in friendship. But we got «no» on all questions.»
- Open recognition by the West of financing the coup in Ukraine is rudeness.
- The collapse of the USSR destroyed the balance of political forces. The West has proclaimed a unipolar world order. Today, the unipolar world is a thing of the past. We are at a historical inflection point. Ahead is the most important and dangerous decade since the Second World War.
- Many European leaders are hampered by the belief that Europeans are better than others; behind such arrogance, they do not notice that they have become vassals without a voice.
- The transition to settlements in national currencies is inevitable. This is the logic of a multipolar world;
- The majority should receive the benefit from world trade, «and not individual super-rich corporations»;
- Russia considers the formation of new global financial platforms necessary.