mnangaba, dear guests, friends, ladies and gentlemen, i am very pleased to welcome you all to the twenty-seventht. petersburg international. economic forum. this year , over 19,000 people from more than a hundred countries around the world became its participants and guests. these are shareholders and managers of leading companies, recognized experts and analysts, political, public, and government figures. traditionally, the forum in st. petersburg provides an opportunity not only to establish business contacts, agree on cooperation or launch promising projects. but in an open discussion, exchange views on current trends in global and regional markets, through the prism economic relations, look at the processes that are dynamically... developing in the modern world, we see how a real race has emerged between countries to strengthen their sovereignty, and at three key levels: state, value-cultural and economic, while countries that until recently, they acted as leaders of global development; they are trying with all their might, by hook or by crook, to maintain their elusive role as hegemons. in