In North Ossetia , Agricultural Production is growing. At a meeting with vladimir putin, the head of the republic, sergei minyaila , said that the commissioning of housing has sharply increased, one and a half times compared to the same period last year. Minyaila also told how things are going in the region with others in other areas, this is the development of tourism, major renovations of kindergartens, and of course, taking care of our military personnel performing tasks in the special military operation zone, please, 7 months in relation to last year , to the industrial index production in the republic is 110 , this increased by 10 , this is the fifth place in russia in terms of growth. Grp, 100 . Yes, yes, objectively, why, because we restored one plant, it was a copper plant, which is now in demand, it is for the militaryindustrial complex, it is used for electronics, pure copper, it is vacuum welding. According to the rest of your instructions , the caucasus of the Russian Federation is a master plan for tourism, the master plan is good, now on mamison there is a huge construction site, foundations for supports are being poured, Engineering Networks are being poured, we have brought almost everything there, it turned out to be a good object, yes, it turned out to be a good object, now for support , a special military operation, which means, you know, from the first day a fund was created, i reported to you, it means that we are participating in a special military operation, the fifty eighth on. Is based in vladikavkaz, we have involved both public associations and authorities, including local authorities, for help, i ask you to keep your attention to this, to this topic, the most important topic for us, for the country, and for guys who are on the front line, especially so, please keep your attention , personal attention, and to families, guys, i want to return to the situation in the republic, and i ask you to draw your attention to preschool childrens institutions, after all, there is overcrowding there, unfortunately, one more thing vladimirovich, we, in due time, your instructions for the overhaul of schools worked well, in principle , today we are in the top ten in terms of the volume of repairs, a meeting of the Valdai InternationalDiscussion Club started in sochi, this year the event marks a round anniversary and takes place for the twentieth time. This time the topic of the meeting is fair multipolarity, how to ensure security and development for everyone. According to the organizers, this year 140 experts, politicians and diplomats will take part in the clubs work. Most of the guests are foreign participants. These are representatives of 42 countries, eurasia, africa, north and south america. During the 4 days of the valdai club, 17 sessions will be held, they will discuss issues such as the role of nuclear weapons, the danger of war with its. Food security russias contribution, the World Economy without a currency monopoly and punitive measures. Discussions will take place on topics of science and education. Vladimir putin will also come to sochi to participate in the International Valdai club ; the president is expected to hold a meeting with members of the Russian Security council and a meeting of the board of trustees of the talent and success foundation. Let me remind you that this foundation was established in 2014 and it also created the Sirius Educational Center on the basis of the olympia. Infrastructure of sochi, the russian leader heads the board of trustees of the fund. My colleague works in sochi, anastasia efimova, she is in direct contact with us, anastasia, greetings, tell us how the first day is going. Yes, hello, the first day of the Valdai InternationalDiscussion Club is traditionally eventful, let me remind you that the big valdai in sochi, traditionally meeting here, is divided into 4 days, this year, these 4 days are thematic, today is trying to sum up some militarypolitical the results of the current world situation, tomorrow will be devoted to the economy, the third day is about humanitarian issues of interaction, and the fourth is of course, the Plenary Session is the key event of the forum, and perhaps it has every reason to become a key event for the entire subsequent weeks, since the statements made during this Plenary Session traditionally set the vector and movement for the development of events in a variety of industries. As for today , there are indeed participants from a variety of countries, more precisely from 42, 140. This is the Maximum Capacity of the site, in fact , interest in the valdai forum has traditionally been very high, over the past year and a half, by the way, nothing has changed, the only restrictions are related to the physical impossibility of getting to the destination due to the wellknown sanctions imposed by western states. Now a new situation is emerging, when new elites have formed all over the world, in africa, in the middle east, and everywhere else. And the new elites are accustomed to feeling more confident, they are hostile to the world around them, but they are on their own path and want to be on their own path, and for them it is very important to build such relationships, why, by the way, is there curiosity about all this format, because the world will be built multidimensionally, most likely , the multidimensionality of a multipolar world is perhaps the key thesis about which. In fact, the valdai Discussion Club has been talking about this for several years now, but in this year is taking a step forward and is already talking about a kind of fair multipolarity, in other words, about the possibility of ensuring both development and security for all, without exception , states that are no longer ready to live by the notorious rules, but although they want to live by international law, and the valdai Discussion Club has a tradition of collaborating not only with experts, but with organizations, the sixteenth such organization is. The wikikananda foundation, a Foundation Named after the indian philosopher. The memorandum of interaction was signed the day before and this, of course, is another sign of how high the interest, including from foreign partners , is in what is happening on the site here, if we talk about the architecture of the world order that will take shape in the coming years, then, as experts say, one of the carriers designs in this very architecture, brix can become , we see more and more, the number of countries that are interested in joining this club of states, and these are very different countries, very different continents, it is obvious that brix has very great potential, this is no longer just a club , it is an association of countries that are trying to find their own model of world order, their own model for the development of the World Economy, the Global Financial system, are ready to interact with each other, cooperate, despite the most different. Interests that would seem sometimes they turn out to be in different directions, but it turns out to be easier for them to interact with each other than with countries , members of the family group, who for many years tried to build a world order based on rules, and were ready to throw out of this world order, repel and turn opponents, those who did not agree with these rules, brix is a completely different format, it is an open format, it is. The format is truly open, but it is far from the only one that is offered today for the possibility of discussion configurations of International Relations in modern times, but whatever these very platforms may be, russia is traditionally at the center of the discussion, as a state that, on the one hand, defends its rights and its, first of all, of course, the sovereign right to live according to its own. But on the other hand , it is open to respect the rights of other countries, in this sense, for such a similar tradition, there is a historical context. Our country proposed for the first time multipolarity as an applied basis for the international order, for the first time it was recorded by the russianchinese declaration on a new world order in 1997, it set out the principles of this order, equality, noninterference, respect for mutual interests, over time, these principles began to gain more and more popularity, we believe that the second important core of the International System is now being formed , which sees precisely multipolarity, polycentricity. Those principles that i have named are an important support for the constructive, peaceful coexistence of different states. Fair question being asked here today experts are concerned with the role of the west in this very new world order. It is clear that the state, which for many years was forced to submit to the hegemon, today comes to the fore, declares its own rights, and their interest in the development of multipolarity is obvious. But those very states that are used to dominating, obviously recognizing the rights of others as equal to their own, are not quite ready, and today this is fully felt by those states that are trying to maintain neutrality in this so difficult, a world that has become almost black and white. Many countries of the socalled global south consider brix as a club that can protect their interests, precisely in these difficult times, when there is pressure to somehow choose one side or the other, and brix plays in this a very serious role in the sense that it reflects the opinion of the majority in the south, but defends these positions of neutrality, and just about the role of the west, and perhaps. In scenarios for the development of International Relations, we talked with a representative of the department of european and russian politics at the university of kent, this is great britain, our guest came from there, thats what our conversation was about. Richard, hello, thank you very much for being with us today, and as one of your colleagues said, today you are represented by a real british scientist, and this is truly a rarity today in russia, in your homeland, when you talk about the fact that you are going at the valdai forum in sochi, what reaction does this cause from your colleagues in the academic world . In academic, i think it s ok, but you know, its not the most a popular step, there are some negative opinions, what is necessary, as we call it now , cancel culture, we need to deny cutting off all ties, i have always had the principle that there must always be dialogue, diplomacy and in general, just like person to person , just to have normal relations, and you know, this is the valdai club, its not exactly , they dont understand in the west what it represents, but ive already been participating for 20 years, its amazing that from the very first to 104, and you know , during these 20 years, i have never. Been once, ill tell you, but i didnt hear some word, some kind of racism, or some kind of militarism, wrong, some kind of humiliating to women or some other issue of israel or something, one case was this is, i wont say, a very famous person here in russia , i wont say his last name, but he started saying that its time for america, its necessary, and so on, and immediately our head then Sergei Aleksandrovich koriganov, stop right away, this is not ours the language is here, we dont speak like that, and if there was such a language, i certainly wouldnt come, but for now its normal a platform for dialogue, and whats bad about this is that there are almost no such platforms for dialogue left today, i mean russia and, well, a certain global west, the sonny world, as it is now very often formulated, from your point of view, today we talked about multipolarity , and the west is ready for multipolarity, not at all, you know, i remember the first time this appeared here in russia in 1990, 1997, and there was a big article in the Nezavisimaya Gazeta newspaper, fortunately it exists. Very good newspaper, but then there was a discussion when primakov became, your minister of foreign affairs, foreign affairs, of course, for him, yevgeny primakov, this was a very important principle, and then they immediately said, this is not, this will be catastrophic, since the very idea of multipopularity means that this is universalism , which generally supported the political west then. Is already being destroyed, if multipolarity, this means that it is onefield, with domination, this political west will not exist, from this beginning. Bifurcation from russia and from the collective west, as you say, i i call it the political west, because the political west this invention would have been created during the first hunger war, the first cold war, and this is generally the logic it is always some kind of domination of iraq. This is the logic that mikhailgevich gorbachev generally wanted and implemented during this new political thinking, it was a brilliant idea, we know that the result , of course, did not work out as desired, but still the idea is correct, and also a common european home, of course, very good idea, that was where the goal was, it was an idea, and fransophone, this is not a russian idea, a multipolar idea either. This is generally a universal human idea, this means that another logic of politics is sovereign internationalism, there are now 200 states in the world, about 200 countries, all now, as they have already developed, this era of decolonization has already ended, these are all these states, even us saw the last days, maley, nizher, they all want, indonesia , all these countries want to assert themselves and rightly so, they want peace and development, we dont need it, this is logic, wars, militarization and the bloc, who is for washington or against and so on, this is already outdated, when we have such technological capabilities, well, look, you say they are outdated, but lets say, the british minister shabs, that the minister of war, the minister of war, absolutely right, is new, newly appointed military mini, it was yesterday, maybe its still there, i checked, and he says that the british are ready, in fact, to train ukrainians already in ukraine, in other words, to send british instructors, quite officially, thats what hes talking about stated there and then the Prime Minister had to say that something was misunderstood there , that for now in this particular. Form, at least, cooperation will not take place, but you must agree, this step and similar statements in general, many statements that we we hear from london, well, its difficult to consider it as a call for dialogue, an attempt at dialogue, and in general as at least some kind of opportunity for dialogue . Yes, i think thats right, its all disastrous, its all disastrous, it s catastrophic, yes, its just you know how it happened, in april, in the past year, twentytwo, when there was already this kind of Peace Agreement in istanbul and our hero Boris Johnson flew to kiev and said maybe vylensky was ready then, it would be neutrality for ukraine, demilitarization, and others, but of course , there was a lot of work to finalize all this, but in principle it was the basis, and you know that Boris Johnson said that maybe you are ready , deputies, but washington and london we are not ready and of course, this is the result, we see this in general , this is catastrophic, the boys are dying and society is being destroyed, this is generally the case, then it was possible to stop this, this means that the policy of london, we have already seen this for the third year, when we attacked iraq, we saw in afghanistan, we saw libya, as much as possible, and you agree, this is the opinion among your colleagues, russian political scientists, including scientists, who believe that london is one of the main confrontational forces in todays conflict . This is a fact, it can no longer be denied, there is a very weak one, but there is, but it is Public Opinion that is weak, which generally says that a different policy is needed, but you know, this is of course, i have always opposed this, but you know. There are, and even in the military in this international society, there are people who generally have, understand that this needs a different path, it is generally necessary to overcome the logic of the conflict, to find a path to peace, it will be very difficult, very long, even very painful, but thats all you have to find this path, and there are people like that, but do you think that this path is back, the path from this point, every time . It seems that the point is extreme, it seems that there is a further abyss, we are getting closer closer closer, what do you think, is there a way back, can we in our lifetime see at least an attempt to restore relations between russia. In the west, you know, maybe lately the pace of development, or the pace, history in general is somehow moving, moving at an accelerated pace, even, and you know, of course, everything is going backwards, its now about to close, but you know , i think that there are how many, how many, as icebergs are called, there may even be, even the ukrainian question, this will be some kind of how much for this the usual politics, yes, this is the political west, was created, as i said, after 1945, continued, even great intentions after 1989, and to become a universal, unique way of life and so on, but you know, i think that this is coming to the end of all this, i hope that in the west, we will also have a new policy, because you know, externally, i very much disagree with this, but i also disagree with internally, because what look, look in england, where i live, a small modest town, canterbury, 70 children in one the direction to the south is blinking, they live in poverty, poverty, 70 , and in general, how much is poor, how much, lack of resources, thats in general. In many ways, england has become, i dont like the word third world, somehow humiliating , third world, wonderful, yes, but we have somehow become an undeveloped country, in general, there are a lot of achievements, a lot of good things, but in principle its possible to be much better, but no one is talking about it now, e