Sergei Shelin: “Humanity will have to wean itself from progress”

“We are accustomed to the fact that the economy of our country, by and large, has long ceased to move forward, and if in some years it rises a little, then in subsequent years it goes down again. The current level of Russian GDP is lower than the pre-crisis maximum reached almost eight years ago, in mid-2008- th.

As for the outside world, the recession of the late 2000s seems to have become a long history for it. Total global production is now 15-20% higher than it was in 2008.

But it is not for nothing that they say that our state is paving new paths and, by its own example, points humanity to the adventures through which it has yet to go. The likelihood of a new global economic crisis is growing before our eyes - China is slowing down, the US is slowing down, Western stock exchanges are falling."