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How Trump and Xi can reset relations.

Neither overreach nor retreat can win domestic support.

How four years of war have remade society.

The General Assembly vote on a resolution directed against a particular country does not always reflect the actual nature of other states’ relations with that country. Nevertheless, symbolic solidarity (or lack thereof) with a particular position on a particular state during a vote is also significant, writes Valdai Club Programme Director Oleg Barabanov.

In 2025, the anticipated rise of middle powers continued, but it was eclipsed by another event: a powerful impulse for the entire system’s reconfiguration, emanating from a leading economic and military power. The decisive turn of the United States toward a policy of sovereign egoism under the leadership of Donald Trump forced every country and […]

Russia’s approach to resolving the Ukrainian conflict was already characterized by a tough stance even before the attack on the presidential compound in the Novgorod Region. There were no signs that Moscow would significantly shift its position. Rather, the incident only reinforces the already highly principled positions of Russian diplomacy, writes Valdai Club Programme Director […]