07.11.2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a keynote speech at a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. English translation.

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Nukes, NATO and New World Order: Putin Highlights Global Challenges Facing World in Coming Decades

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the coming decades could prove even more difficult than the first quarter of the 21st century owing to the birth pangs of the formation of a new, multipolar world order.

„Looking back over the past 20 years and considering the scale of changes, then projecting such changes onto the coming years, one could assume that the next two decades will be at least as challenging, if not more so,“ Putin said at the plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club on Thursday, pointing to the „era of cardinal, essentially revolutionary changes“ and the complex processes facing the world today.

„The imposition and transformation of totalitarian ideologies into the norm is a threat. We see in the example of today’s Western liberalism, which has resulted in extreme intolerance and aggression toward any alternative, toward any sovereign and independent thought, and today justifies neo-Nazism, terrorism, racism and even the mass genocide of civilian populations,“ Putin said.

Today, Putin said, „democracy is increasingly being interpreted“ by some „as the power of the minority rather than the majority,“ (…)