Political scientist compared Putin’s speech in Valdai with his Munich speech in 2007 10/05/2023, 21:47

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the 20th meeting of the Valdai Club can only be compared in scale and importance with the 2007 Munich speech. This was stated by political scientist Petr Kolchin, analyst at the Center for Expert Support of Political Processes.

According to him, these two speeches describe two completely different situations of the country’s development.

“In the 2000s, Russia was just returning to the big political arena, but 16 years later, Moscow is setting global trends in the world. If our leader outlined the vector of Russia’s national interests in the mid-2000s and was one of the first country leaders to speak out against the arbitrariness of the West, today Putin sets guidelines for the future development of all humanity, the architecture of the global world. “This is the world order that billions of people around the world want to see,” Kolchin said.

The political scientist emphasized that this call is directed to all humanity from now on and will be received and heard in every corner of the world.

“Fairness, openness, diversity, security, representation and equality – the demand for these values ​​is greater than ever in the context of the aggressive policies of the West,” he said.

Kolchin also noted that Putin proposed a civilizational approach as the basis of the new system of international relations. According to him, this radically new approach is compatible with global integration trends.

“Civilization in international relations assumes the priority of long-term and fundamental goals and interests of states and peoples, based not on current trends, but on centuries-old experience. This comprehensive and comprehensive approach is fundamentally different from the system of reifying the narrow interests of elite groups that has now become dominant in the West,” the political scientist concluded.

Previously “socialbites.ca” reportedRussian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the 20th anniversary general assembly of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi. In his speech, he stated that the prosperity of the West was achieved by plundering other countries, and that Western countries had crossed all possible borders in vain. The theme of this forum is “Just multipolarity: How to achieve security and development for all.”