hello, international review is on air, fyodor lukyanov is with you. today on the program is an international review. events of the week, chronicle, facts, comments, multipolarity technique, instructions for use, who benefits from it in the end? ukrainian wind of change. congress deferred. in the provision

of assistance, a temporary pause, or is it for a long time? europe on the warpath, brussels was preparing for escalation, materials from our program. fair multipolarity, how to ensure security and development for all. this was the name of the twentieth meeting of the international valdai discussion club, which ended this week in sochi. the 20 years spent in aldai are an interesting chronicle of a truly turning point, a chronicle of how russia and the world were changing. in 2004, when it all began, multipolarity was considered a desirable goal, but in practice everyone was doing about the same thing, adapting to a real unipolar hegemony. now the situation

has changed, multipolarity is an accomplished fact, only now the question remains, what about it? do? quantity significant participants in international relations are unprecedentedly large, this has not happened for a very long time, and maybe never - write the authors of the annual report of the volday club, which is called a matriculation certificate or an order that has never happened before. the concept of a multipolar world...became after the end of the cold war the personification of the ideological rejection of the hegemony established under the auspices of the united states and the west, but multipolarity, as such, is not a way to regulate international relations, it is nothing more than the state of the environment and the state of obviously unstable, the report’s authors remind. different segments of international relations come to a new state of affairs at different speeds at different times. it is this

circumstance that prevents the formation of a stable structure, which in turn prevents the building of a hierarchy. any schemes based on polarity obviously presuppose a hierarchical, unequal system of relations. the number of poles, that is, players influencing the general state of the global environment, is always limited. the rest obviously find themselves discriminated against situation, but no one is ready to accept such discrimination... for granted, so there is no point in using the concept of poles to characterize the current and especially future international situation. the life of the international community must gradually reach a state of dynamic equilibrium, when the ability of the world social organism to self-adjust will overcome the challenges associated with the end of an era, based on the balance of forces and the dominance of the strong, the valdai

report 2023 summarizes, discussions at the forum were are extremely diverse, it is even difficult to summarize them, but two conclusions can perhaps be drawn. first, the very fact that multipolarity is a reality is recognized by everyone, and moreover, it no longer even evokes any emotions, not sadness, not joy, it already is, second, which is probably more interesting, the general topic that everyone is discussing, this is the need for monetary and financial diversification, in other words, a move away from the monopoly of the dollar, this is spoken about not only by opponents of the united states, but by all participants in general, because recent events demonstrated what a powerful tool, pressure, influence, this is the currency dominance of the united states, a multipolar world - an interesting thing, but also quite. unsafe,

we asked some forum participants about whether their countries are ready to live in this new reality. south africa is one of the countries that very actively advocated for... a multipolar order, but we understand very well how many dangers it carries, and also how important the strength and stability of our own state is in order to exist normally in multipolar world. the state must be effective, capable of responding to any challenges, and most importantly, establish contact with its own society and meet its needs. growing multipolarity is good, better than having a unipolar or pseudo...polar world, like after the collapse of the soviet bloc, the more diverse the world, the more opportunities there are for everyone to speak out, and i believe that my country brazil, together with its neighbors, will also create pole of a multipolar world, we will cooperate with other poles, especially fruitfully within the framework of brix. japan

belongs to the international order led by the united states, but we are aware of how dramatically the world situation is changing. japan recently adopted a new security doctrine that aims to make the country more independent, but we remain a close ally of america and are in the process of adapting to a new world order. china has always been ready for a multipolar world. beijing has been saying for years that the planet should not be dominated by one country. beijing would like to continue to move multipolar device, for the european union. europe is moving further towards the united states; it does not seem to have the will for strategic autonomy. from china's point of view, the european union is very important for the world to be truly multipolar. this is our priority. relying only on brix or sco is clearly

not enough. we need to enlist the support of europe and achieve its autonomy. this is the strategic goal of the people's republic of china. opposite the beijing temple of heaven it’s like a black market, where people come to look at others, but more often to show themselves, and not even themselves, but their own unmarried and unmarried children, who are painted in all colors, height, weight, year of birth and not only this is tinder, only on sheets of paper, here i have three sons, all unmarried, but they are all over 40 already, maybe i’ll add one of them , but what, the education is good, there is work, everyone lives in the capital! so the acquaintance of the parents here occurs long before the bride and groom even know about each other. in china, this is called the marriage market and there are such in almost all cities, when the older generation, even now in the era of high technology, like this with they go out into the parks with leaves and offer their grandchildren as newlyweds.

potential newlyweds themselves often don’t even realize this. most of the advertisements, however, are about girls, there is a requirement for a potential son-in-law to have a height of 170 or an academic degree. according to the eastern calendar, education is also important, if in the sixties, it was enough for the groom to have a bicycle; in the eighties , a washing machine and a sewing machine were the key to family happiness, but now they won’t even look at a bachelor without his own square meters, although, just before 5 minutes, a new cell of chinese society assures that they are definitely getting married for love, it’s just that the groom’s metropolitan registration in his own apartment contributed a lot. this is a tradition, and traditions in china must be respected. you see, we even take pictures in traditional outfits, a mandatory photo session, it is usually carried out even before the wedding, a tradition , the same as ransom, in china they ask for tens to hundreds of thousands of yuan for a bride, in terms of millions of rubles, and they will also require an apartment for parents, bride, if not, then

and a turn, a turn, and the farther from large cities, the greater the appetite, oddly enough. in beijing, i know, the bride’s parents no longer insist that the groom’s parents demand an apartment for their daughter, but in the villages this still remains, it didn’t matter to us at all, we are still friends with the school. hanyu and ivan an, by chinese standards, generally went against the system. firstly, both of them are not even thirty, and they are getting married in the middle kingdom later and later every year, precisely because the young men just can’t save up for an apartment, and there’s no time, work is not enough here. personal life, the stronger sex in china is generally more difficult, according to statistics, for every 100 girls there are 118 guys, there are already 30 million more available men . chim and girls, and their parents, use, sorting out the most promising candidates, in specialized dating agencies, of which there are usually enough. all these people met with my help, and now they live happily. people like naaer in china are called hun-ni, literally the red mother, who connects couples

with the red thread of fate, like yuu, the god of love and marriage, his figure in the agency place, but unlike the ancient chinese deity, in real life the chinese have a clear calculation, therefore the services of professional matchmakers are not cheap, the price tag starts from 15,000 yuan, which is almost 200,000 rubles. more and more girls are looking for them again. men are usually interested in external data, but... girls leave as a request, education, place of work and salary, in beijing it should not be lower than 10,000 yuan per month. it is not surprising that sometimes the parents’ requests for the hand, the daughter’s hearts force the groom’s family to get into unbearable debts, but prices for brides in china are rising, demand only falls as a result, and with it we give birth. yes, it’s time for grandchildren, so i’m looking for a bride, my son doesn’t seem to mind, he himself won’t find her anyway without me, so i go and see, maybe i can not only find a bride, but also agree on a smaller ransom. even the comptia had to intervene in family affairs by setting a dowry threshold of 100,000 yuan, and

at the same time reduce the costs of the weddings themselves, which are now amazing in size, like everything in china , after all, in the happiness of the young state directly interested, the population in the people's republic of china is rapidly aging and this despite the abolition of the policy, one family, one child, the flip side of chinese prudence, which can be changed, however, only through love. alexander balsky, nikolai petrov, specially for international viewing from china. in general, there is money everywhere , we’ll talk about how attitudes towards the conflict are changing in ukraine, in the west, especially in europe, after the advertisement. we watch to know everything about russia. the best historical series, watch, watch, in the app or on the website.

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a russian will not behave like that. brazil does not yet know how to show the world our culture, my acquaintance with brazil is naturally the series slaves of the nezaura. slaves of nesaura was my first television role and i became very famous not only in brazil but in the world. this is favella, i grew up in favella, it is an integral part of my life. i agree with those who say that brazil is green russia, and russia is northern brazil. little slovakia experienced a moment of glory, for the elections in this country were observed by almost... the whole world, the victory, success, first place of the left-wing party smir,

headed by former prime minister robert fitz, was perceived almost as a stab in the back of the entire coalition of friends of ukraine. fitz has repeatedly spoken out against the supply of weapons to kiev, and moreover, he does not support anti-russian sanctions, well, with all due respect to slovakia, this is not a country that can influence pan-european politics. but the symptom is obvious and it is quite indicative. tired of what's happening already not only in central europe, this is felt throughout europe, in the western part it is slower, a neighbor in the neighboring countries of ukraine, it was already sensitive there before, but now it is noticeable, noticeable, hungary, it was alone before.

or almost alone, in slovakia, the fact that robert fitz won the elections, this already makes the situation easier for hungary, because there is some kind of, well, small union, and i must add that in poland the mood is also changing, not only in society, and the political mood, because why this is all, i already said this in advance, in advance, that what is happening in ukraine is everything, just not in a european way, to say that ukraine is for... defending western democracy is, well, i beg your pardon, but to put it mildly, it’s funny, what, what, what kind of democracy is there, when, as we have known for a long time, but especially in 2017, how do they treat the nationalities, uh, the,

arrogance of the hungarians living in transcarpathia, which means i have we have experience, many did not want to see this, especially in poland, but now ukraine, in quotes, helped, helped this, these disputes around exports on uh export exports on on on on grain , because now the poles must defend national interests, hungary before that did nothing else, based on the hungarian national interests, i tried to protect these interests as much as possible, to defend the nationalist movement of transcarpathia and so on further, and hungary is never against ukraine, he was only for the hungarians, for hungary, fitz, like orban

, is portrayed in western europe, almost as agents of russian influence. black and white picture is always more attractive, because it’s clearer, but of course it doesn’t clarify the essence of things. many people here think that urban and fitz are pro-russian. no , they are pro-hungarian, pro-slovak, this is the most important thing, that this is not, they should not approach this behavior as ideologically, because for urban, for fitz. more important than ideology, geopolitics, national interests, in this they differ from western politicians, western european politicians , western european politicians live in some or or live, i don’t know in which world, world, world of morality and so on and are completely against and

they will forget about national interests, a good example for this is... the german government today, this is what is happening there, this is for everyone, this is very bad for for the germans, hungary, the hungarian government, now already fitz, the slovak government , a long time ago, we before, now and fitz, if he manages to do, formulate a government, then, then... will try to show a different approach within the european union, a pragmatic approach, this is the most important thing, a pragmatic approach, because what is happening today in the european union , this, this, this

we are going into the abyss, into the abyss and with round eyes that we are defending ukraine, we will help ukraine, and europe will disappear, the competition is already weaker and weaker, that’s all, these countries, which means central european countries, you can formalize this, that they are doing or doing this some kind of rebellion, an interesting touch, the president of slovakia, zuzana cheputova, she is an opponent, a political opponent of fitz , a staunch supporter of assistance to ukraine, announced that at the time of the formation of the government the most help. should be suspended, after all, the people spoke out in largely for those who do not support this course, and nevertheless, carrying it out in these conditions would probably mean disrespect for democratic choice, it is interesting that they remembered it for some centuries, we know more about what is happening,

to the east of us, we live in a neighboring country, there is historically more experience, and these countries not only in the issue of ukraine, with russia and so on, but they can give some new impetus and want to give a new impetus to brussels, the european union, in brussels, they don’t want to understand this, they are increasing pressure, they think that these countries and orban against the european union are destroying the european union, no, you are destroying the european union there. unfortunately, if more countries, for example, now slovakia also joins, in some issues, poland joins , then it will be easier, then, then it gives... an impulse, as i already said, and this is a small breakthrough, it would be an understatement , which is big, because there is a wall there, such strong walls, and it would be even easier if,

if someone from western european countries, leaders of western european countries, joins this group, we hoped for, well, in some moments, that macron , the president of france, when he talks about autonomy, strategic, strategic autonomy of europe, then he thinks a little differently, a little, well, that ’s hope, that’s well is weakening a little, a lot depends on what fico, whether fitsa will have time to form, form, a government, what will happen in poland, and i would like to emphasize once again that some of the western european politicians

would not say that they are joining, but, but he understands a little more what we are talking about, what do these people, these politicians, these central european politicians, want to do, what do they think, how do they think, maybe they are right? it is difficult to figure out how much money the united states spent on ukraine, the figures appear different, for example, the foxnews channel named the amount at $111 billion , it was announced in september by the head of the white house office of management and budget sholanda young, the heal newspaper claims that in the united states, since the beginning of the war gave ukraine weapons worth 75.5 billion, eu countries 58 billion, all the rest about 16.5 billion, 13 more billions came through the world bank , the same picture with arms supplies, back in

january 23, the bloomberg agency reported that during the entire special operation, ukraine received more than 4,000 units of armored vehicles, artillery pieces, and aircraft air defense systems. most of the heavy weapons came from eastern european countries. former members of the warsaw pact. gave kiev old soviet tanks, combat vehicles, hundreds of infantry and grad multiple launch rocket systems, but in addition, ukraine received several dozen leopards, bradley armored vehicles and marder, salvo fire systems, two patriot air defense systems, as well as german, english and american howitzers, from aviation , soviet-made attack aircraft, mi helicopters and drones were given to ukraine. in general, ukraine received various types of military equipment from more than 40 countries. in

washington, between themes. the us house of representatives dismissed its own speaker. the radical conservative wing of the republican majority did not like the fact that their fellow party member, kevin mccarthy, agreed on temporary budget. with the democrats, they conspired with those same democrats to remove him from office. we would probably be of little interest in these questions if the adoption of the american budget were not directly tied to assistance to ukraine, or rather, on the contrary, assistance to ukraine depends on the adoption of the budget. president biden immediately called a conference call with allies to reassure them that the money would be there. but in europe , nevertheless, they sensed evil. the head of european democracy, josep barel, has already warned that the european union does not have such funds no, the calculation is only for the united states.

tireless fighter against russia, slovakian marian kamensky. work based on the decision of the us congress to leave assistance to ukraine out of the equation. the drawing is called the last cent. osmani simanka was born. in cuba, but now lives in brazil and works for one of the local newspapers, this drawing is entitled: biden's child. jimmy marguly, more about american politics. republicans delayed aid to ukraine. uncle sam tells zelsky that they, unfortunately, have no interest in maintaining democracy at home either. simon reges from tanzania. by and large, everything here is clear without words. the drawing is simply called ukrainian. elon musk will not leave dave garlund indifferent. the screen says fighting in ukraine. in musk's hands, there is a remote control with the inscription staring and the signature maniac. who strives

to control everything, the more acute the conflict, the more weapons and resources thrown at it, the higher the internal political price. people see a reduction in social benefits, rising fuel prices, and most importantly, there is no end in sight, they are just adding fuel to the fire without any strategy and there is no doubt, that the patron of all this is the united states. judging by the statements of politicians, well, the same german government, there is no alternative, and this opinion is actively reinforced by the media , i will assume that the majority of germans are still against the war, for historical reasons, the nazi past, the second world war, defeat, and the germans the masses still do not agree with the idea that their country will fight, especially with russia, but the media environment is extremely

biased. manipulation of public opinion are systemic in nature. this has a structural basis. most media outlets are owned by a limited number of families or corporations that are closely tied to the government and make it very difficult for other voices to be heard. however, there is another point of view: everything that happens is turning into a kind of antidote, a vaccine against militarism. the resistance of european nations to militaristic approaches and the idea that war is a rational political instrument. the longer this goes on, the more obvious the terrible consequences and even more skepticism is caused by the very idea of ​​a war with russia by proxy. hawks are now talking about escalation, about a long war against russia in ukraine, but to be honest, i don’t notice that these calls have found understanding in public opinion in

recent weeks, coverage of the conflict... in the west is becoming more and more realistic the longer it all goes on in time, the more meaningless it looks, the question arises: what is the point of this whole company if, as a result of it, ukraine will be destroyed as the state, public opinion in europe is for appeasement, it would like the war to end as soon as possible, people would like a resumption of diplomacy and some kind of peace agreement based on compromise, even an agreement that would require ukraine... to cede territory to russia and limit its own sovereignty. increasingly, public opinion believes that such an outcome is better than continuing the war to the point of complete self-destruction. investment rating, economics, through specific

stories, we often talk about money, amounts serious, in russia there is a clear and clear signal, at what point will you say, i did everything in this project, everything i could, i will never say whether russian industry is capable of replacing foreign suppliers, it is necessary to mobilize all resources, give me the recipe, in general this is how to achieve what you have achieved, it seems to you that you are on top of the world, got up, dusted yourself off, are you ready? everything changes, in any structure, evolution occurs.

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