... moral-cultural compass rather than a dogma. Great countries are not built by accident. Ideas do not drift up from below; they are shaped by leaders and creative elites who feel responsibility to their people and history.
What Russia is – and is not
Russia’s dream cannot be Western. Not because we hate the West, but because defining ourselves against it keeps us imprisoned in its worldview. Nor should our idea be anti-Western; it must be post-Western. Russia is not Europe’s angry shadow, but an independent pole of civilization.
Today’s Western democracies ...
... duties on countries perceived to be aligned with the bloc. These efforts have a clear goal: to deter deeper cooperation between BRICS members. So far, they have not provoked open defiance. Most BRICS countries remain wary of direct confrontation with the West. Yet US pressure is steadily fueling resentment, and a firmer response may come if that pressure intensifies.
Third, the rotation of the BRICS presidency from Russia to Brazil altered the rhythm of the group’s activities. For Russia, BRICS is both a practical tool for economic coordination and a political platform that bypasses Western gatekeeping. Moscow invests heavily in its BRICS role. Brazil’s focus ...
... of influence for the Global South. We call it the "Global Majority". Of course, we are not a southern country. So we call ourselves, refer to ourselves, as Northern Eurasia – a balance of the world and Greater Eurasia.
HOPPE / MARZBAAN: Russia's orientation away from the West towards the East will apparently not only be seen in terms of economic, scientific, and technological development and security, as you said, but a quest for a new non-Western worldview, a new
Weltanschauung
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But as modernity, the modern age ...
... decades after the formal end of the Cold War, may be eroded and undermined (Strategic stability is an indicator of the level of the risk of nuclear war). Talk is increasing of the possibility of a new war. The sharp escalation of the conflict between Russia and the West, which for decades was based on nuclear confrontation, has also brought the nuclear issue to the fore. Against this background, Russia has drawn international attention to the role of this factor. At the level of propaganda, the rhetoric may ...
