The arab world trying to sculpt an enemy. Also selectively, well, they try to act carefully, but nevertheless, in general , this is what it all comes down to, and they even try to mold muslims into some kind of hostile environment, and so on, in fact, anyone, anyone who behaves independently, follows their interests, instantly turns for these western elites into an obstacle that must be eliminated, imposed on the world. Geopolitical structures create closed bloc formats. We see this in europe, where natos expansionist policy has been pushed forward for decades, and in the asiapacific and southern asia, where open and inclusive cooperation architectures are being undermined. The bloc approach, lets call a spade a spade, is a restriction of the rights of freedom of states to their own development. An attempt to drive them into a certain a cage of obligations, this is to a certain extent, well, this is an obvious thing, the taking away of part of sovereignty, and then very often the imposition of decisions in other areas, in addition to the security sphere, and primarily in the economic sphere, well, as is happening now, in relations between the United States and europe. There is no need to explain, if necessary , then during the discussion, after my opening remarks, we will talk about this in more detail, for this they are trying to replace International Law with an order, what kind of order, based on certain rules, what rules, what kind of rules, its completely unclear who invented them, but its just some kind of nonsense, but theyre trying to introduce it into consciousness. Millions of people have to live according to the rules, what kind of rules and in general , if you allow, our western colleagues , especially from the usa, not only establish arbitrary such rules, but at the same time teach who should fulfill them and how, who and how should behave in general news , it is done and said, as a rule , its all in an openly boorish form, its all the same manifestation of this. Colonial thinking, we hear all the time, all the time it sounds, you must, you are obliged, we are seriously warning you, who are you anyway, what right do you have to warn someone, this is simply amazing, maybe its for those who say that, maybe its time for you to get rid of your arrogance, tell me, stop behave towards the world community, which thus perfectly understands its tasks, its interests, and its time to finally get rid of this, this thinking of the era of colonial rule, i would like to say, so to speak, wipe your eyes, this era is long over and never again will return never, i will say more, over the centuries, such. Similar behavior led to the reproduction of the same great wars, for the justification of which various ideological, or even pseudomoral justifications were invented, today this is especially dangerous, humanity has the means capable, as we know, it is easy to destroy the entire planet, and manipulation of consciousness on an incredible scale leads to loss of feeling. We certainly need to get out of this vicious circle, we need to look for some way out, as i understand it, dear friends and colleagues, you for this you are going to. The valdai site. In the concept of Russian Foreign policy, adopted this year, our country was described as a distinctive state of civilization. This formulation accurately and succinctly reflects how we understand not only our own development, but also the basic principles of the world order for victory, which we hope for. In our understanding, civilization is multifaceted. It is certainly interpreted differently, there was also an openly colonial interpretation, there is a certain civilized world that serves a model for the rest, everyone must follow these standards, these models; those who do not agree will be driven into civilization with the baton of an enlightened master. These times, as i just said. Our understanding of civilization has gone completely different, firstly, there are many civilizations, and none of them is better or worse than the other, they are equal in rights as expressers of the aspirations of their cultures and traditions, their peoples, but for each of us it is different, for me , for example, this is aspiration. My people, of which i was lucky to be a part become, outstanding thinkers all over the world, adherents of the civilized civilizational approach have reflected and continue to reflect on the concept of civilization, this multi component component phenomenon, without plunging into philosophical depths, this is probably not the place, not the time for such reasoning, lets try to describe it in relation to today day, i will try to do this the main qualities of the state of civilization, diversity and selfsufficiency, these are the two main components, in my opinion to the modern world any unification is alien, each state and society wants to independently develop its own path of development, based on culture and traditions, strengthened in geography, historical experience, both ancient and modern, in values. People, this is a complex synthesis, in the process of which a an original civilizational community, its heterogeneity and diversity is the key to sustainability and development. Over the centuries, russia has been formed as a country of different cultures, religions, and nationalities. Russian civilization cannot be reduced to one general denominator, but it cannot be divided, because it exists only in its. Integrity, spiritual cultural wealth , maintaining the strong unity of such a state is not an easy task, over the centuries we have had the most difficult trials, we have always overcome them, sometimes at a very high cost , but invariably learned lessons for the future, strengthening our National Unity and the integrity of the russian state. Today this experience is truly invaluable. The world is becoming more and more diverse, with simple ways of managing, brushing everyone with the same brush, as we say, which some states are used to, will not cope with all the complexity of the processes, which is very important to add at the same time, a truly effective and durable state system cannot be imposed from the outside, it grows naturally from civilizational roots of the countries of peoples and russia in this regard, an example of how this happens in life, in practice, a civilizational support, a necessary condition for success in the modern world, a chaotic, unfortunately, dangerous world having lost its bearings. More and more states are coming to exactly this conclusion, realizing their own interests, needs, opportunities and limitations, their originality, the degree of interconnectedness with humanity is moving not towards fragmentation into competing segments, not towards a new bloc confrontation, no matter what motivates it, not towards the soulless universalism of a new globalization , on the contrary, the world is on the way to a synergy of states of civilization, large spaces, communities that recognize themselves as such, at the same time, civilization is not universal. One for all, this does not happen, each of them is different from the others, each is selfsufficient culturally, draws its own value principles from its own history in its own traditions. Respect for oneself stems from respect for others, of course, but what is meant is respect from others. Therefore, civilization does not impose anything on anyone, but it also does not allow anything to be imposed on itself. If everyone adheres to exactly this rule, this will ensure harmonious coexistence and creativity. Interaction of all Participants International relations, and of course, protecting ones civilizational choice, a huge responsibility, this concerns responding to external attacks, establishing close and constructive relationships with other civilizational communities, and most importantly maintaining internal stability and harmony, because we all see that the International Environment today, as i already said, unfortunately, it is both unstable and quite. And one more very important thing, of course, you cannot betray your civilization to anyone, this is also the path to general chaos, this is unnatural and disgusting, i would say, we, for our part, have always tried and are trying to offer solutions that would take into account the interests of everyone, but our interlocutors in the west have generally forgotten that such concepts as reasonable exist. Restrictions, compromises, readiness to concede something in order to achieve a result acceptable to everyone, no, they are literally obsessed with only one thing, to push, to push, and at any cost here now their interests, well, if this is their choice, lets see what of this it turns out, the paradox is that tomorrow the situation may change, thats the problem. For example, there will be internal political changes after the next elections, here the country insists on something, they push their own actions to prevent this from happening, and tomorrow internal political changes occur, with the same pressure and unceremoniousness, something completely different is pushed through, sometimes directly opposite. The most striking example is the Iranian Nuclear program. One administration pushed through one decision, another came, everything was turned around, everything went in the opposite direction, but how work in such conditions . Where are the guidelines, what to rely on . Where are the guarantees . Are these the same rules that we are told about . Well, this is some kind of nonsense, why is all this happening . Why doesnt this bother anyone . Because Strategic Thinking has been replaced by following the shortterm selfinterest of not even the countries and peoples, their successive groups, their successive groups of influence. Hence the irresponsibility of the behavior of political elites, incredible in previous worlds, by previous standards of the cold war, who often forgot fear, shame, considering themselves absolutely sinless. The civilizational approach resists. Such trends, because it is based on the fundamental, longterm interests of the state of peoples, interests that are dictated not by a sevenminute ideological conjuncture, but by all historical experience, the legacy of the past, on which the idea of a harmonious future is based, if everyone is guided precisely with this, in my opinion, there will be much fewer conflicts in the world, and the methods for resolving them will become much more rational. Because every civilization respects, as i already said, others and does not try to change anyone according to its own ideas, i read with interest, dear friends, the report prepared by the valdai club for the current meeting, it says that today everyone is trying to understand, imagine the image of the future , this is completely natural and understandable , especially for the environment, in an era of fundamental changes, when the entire familiar way of life is collapsing, it is very important to realize where we are going, what we want to get to, and of course, the future is being created today, not only before our eyes, with our hands, of course, when we are talking about such gigantic, incredibly complex processes, it is difficult or almost impossible to predict the result, no matter what we do, life will. Will certainly make its own adjustments, but at least we must be aware of what we are striving for, what we want to achieve, and there is such an understanding in russia, firstly, we want to live in an open, interconnected world in which no one will ever try to build artificial barriers to communication between people, their creative realization and prosperity , there must be a barrierfree environment, this is what we must strive for, secondly, we want the diversity of the world not only to be preserved, but to be the foundation of universal development, imposition. A country or a people, how they should live, how they should feel, should be prohibited; only true cultural and civilizational diversity will ensure the wellbeing of people and a balance of interests. Third, we are for maximum representativeness; no one has the right, and no one can rule the world for others, or on behalf of others. The world of the future is the world collective decisions made at that level. In which they are most effective and by the composition of the participants who are truly capable of making a significant contribution to the resolution of a specific problem, not one person decides for everyone and not everyone even decides about everything, but those who are directly affected by this or that issue agree that and how to do, fourth, we are for universal security and lasting peace, built on respect for the interests of everyone, from the great ones, the colonial era and the cold war. We ve been talking about indivisibility for decades security, that it is impossible to ensure the safety of some at the expense of the safety of others. Indeed, harmony in this area is achievable. On others as secondclass partners, or as outcasts or savages. Fifth, we are for justice for all. The era of exploitation , no matter who it is, i have already said this twice in the past, countries and peoples are clearly aware of their interests and capabilities and are ready to rely on themselves. And this increases strength; everyone should be provided with access to the benefits of modern development; attempts to limit it for any country or people, should be considered an act of aggression, exactly that. Sixth, we are for equality, for the difference in the potentials of different countries, this is an absolutely objective factor, but no less objective is the fact that no one is anymore ready to submit, to make their interests and needs dependent on anyone, and above all on the richer ones or. And this is not just the natural state of the international community, it is the quintessence of the entire historical experience of mankind. These are the principles that we wish to adhere to ourselves. Which we invite all our friends and colleagues to join. Dear colleagues, russia was, is and will be one of the foundations of the world system, ready. For constructive interaction with everyone who strives for peace and prosperity, ready for tough opposition to those who profess the principles of dictatorship of violence, we are confident that pragmatism and common sense will prevail, and a multipolar world will establish itself; in conclusion, i would like to express my gratitude. To the forum organizations, as always, for thorough, highquality preparation, to all participants in the anniversary meeting, i want to say thank you for your attention, thank you very much, thank you very much for such a detailed presentation of general issues , conceptual, that now at valdai and in many other places everyone is trying to understand the framework that will replace those that no longer work, not very well yet we have succeeded, we know what no longer exists, but we dont really understand what will happen, here are your points this seems to me to be the first case of such an attempt, at least, to very clearly lay out the principles. If possible, following up on your speech, well of course, a very. Interesting part dedicated to civilizations and the civilizational approach. You once said, a long time ago, a very, very striking phrase. That russias borders do not end anywhere, if russias borders do not end, then russian and russian civilization, apparently there is nothing to talk about here at all, thats how to understand this, where is it, you know, this was said for the first time in a conversation with one of former president s of the United States, in my home, it was said jokingly, of course, when he looked at the map. In the Russian Federation and we all know that i want to repeat this again, russia remains the largest country in the world in terms of territory, but uh, well, seriously, of course, this, first of all, has a civilizational meaning, there are many of our compatriots, the russian world, it has a global character, russian is one of the official languages of the un, in latin america, and now we have met with parliamentarians. There are 300,000 of our compatriots living, they are everywhere, in asia and africa, in europe, of course, in north america, so, if we say seriously, to repeat, then in the civilizational sense, of course, there are no borders, well, just like there are no borders of all other civilizations, well, take india or china, well, how many representatives of china live in other countries of the world. And how many have been presented and india lives in other countries of the world, it all intersects, interacts with each other very well, if this interaction is natural and friendly, aimed at strengthening this state, that is , civilization for you is not a territory, but people, yes, of course, first of all these are people, after all, ours, there will probably now be many questions there regarding ukraine, our actions in the same donbass are primarily dictated and mainly by the protection of people, this is the whole meaning of our actions. And in this case, you can characterize a special military operation as a civilizational conflict, you said that this is not a territorial conflict , well, this is first of all, i dont know what kind of civilization is being defended by those who are on that line, on that front line, with that side of the front line. Is located, but we protect ours traditions, their culture, their people, well, just since we immediately moved on to ukraine, today, in my opinion, a big event is starting in spain, a european one, Vladimir Zelensky and a number of other important people went there, the issue of, well, continued support is being discussed ukraine, now, as we know, in the United States there was some hitch due to the crisis in congress, so in europe it seems to me that they felt that they would have to take on the financing themselves, do you think they will be able to cope and what do we expect from this . . Well, were waiting for some manifestation some germs of common sense, as for whether they can cope or not, you need to ask them, well, of course, they can cope , which i dont see as a problem, the problem is that in order to expand production, to increase the amount of money that goes to the war and prolong this conflict, but of course there are problems, they are understandable to this audience, it seems to me, and these problems are known, if in the usa, as you said, there is a hitch, it is more of a technical nature, well, those are political and technical technical, so to speak, and which is that there are problems with the budget, a large debt load, the budget needs to be balanced, the question is how to balance it, either by supplying weapons to ukraine to reduce budget expenses, or by cutting social expenses, but no one wants to cut social spending, especially, especially on this as it were but the position of the opposition parties is strengthening, the Opposition Party in this case, thats all, but in the end they will probably find the money, print more, they printed for in the postcovid period, they printed more than nine trillion dollars, so print Something Else and scatter it all over the world, increasing food inflation, it costs them nothing, they will do it. As for europe, its more complicated here the situation, because if in the usa we are still observing Economic Growth, over the previous period of 2. 4 of gdp, then in europe the situation is much worse, there over the past, last twentyfirst year, or rather, Economic Growth was 4. 9 , this year it will be 0. 5, and then only due to the southern countries, due to italy and spain, which showed a slight increase, yesterday we spoke with experts and our people there about this, i think that the growth in italy and spain is primarily associated with rising real estate prices with a certain rise in the tourism sector, in the main economies of europe, stagnation, there is a minus in all industries, in the federal republic 01, in the baltic countries there is even 2 3, in estonia, in my opinion, 3, well, in holland and austria. Minus everywhere, especially big minus in the Industrial Area production, there, well, if not a disaster, then a very difficult situation, in the sphere of real production, especially in the chemical industry, in the larch industry, in the metallurgical industry, well, we know that due to the low cost, but relatively cheap Energy Carriers in the United States and some administrative decisions of a financial nature, many. From europe simply move to the United States, close in europe and move to the United States, this is well known, this is what i hinted at when speaking here, from this rostrum, here the burden on the population of European Countries is growing, this is also an obvious thing, this is data from european statistics itself, the standard of living is falling, recently it has decreased over the past months, in my opinion it has decreased by 5 , by one and a half, by one and a half, yes, here, therefore, europe may or may not, maybe, due to what, due to, due to the deterioration, further deterioration of its economy and the lives of citizens of european states. Well, our budget is not rubbery either, we can handle it. Distinguish from them, we can cope while i have there is reason to believe that we will cope in the future, in the Third Quarter of this year we had a surplus of over 660 billion rubles, this is the first and second, we will ultimately, by the end of the year, have a certain deficit, well, somewhere around 1 , for the coming years, twentyfour, we expect that the deficit will be somewhere around this 1 . We have a record low unemployment of 3 that has been established and stabilized, and what is very important, this is a key point, maybe we will return to this again, but i think this is important fundamental fundamental phenomenon in our economy, we naturally began a structural restructuring of the economy, because what we previously received from European Countries, a lot of imports were closed for us, and we, just like in 2014, introduced certain restrictions on for the purchase of western european, primarily agricultural goods, we were forced to invest money in the development of Agricultural Production within the country, but inflation jumped, but we then ensured that our producers we have increased production of the goods we need, and today you know, we provide ourselves fully with all the main agricultural products, completely with the main types of food, the same thing is now happening in the sphere of real production in industry and the main growth is coming from the manufacturing industries, oil and gas revenues have fallen , but they also give plus 3 , and not oil and gas income and primarily in the Processing Industries plus 43 . And this is , first of all, the salinity industry, this is optics, this is electronics, we are very a lot needs to be done in the field of microelectronics, we are really still at the beginning of the journey, but it is already