Russian chiefs have a worked out reception. For a long, long, long time, some senseless verbal chewing gum, calling her initiatives. In the end, everyone simply stops paying attention to this chewing gum. And then - OPLA! - In these “initiatives” after their adoption, something is found that radically changes the state of affairs. I admit, I wanted to benefit from journalists of the pro-Kremlin media, who, the poor, had to write about what not for the 101st time.

In mid-October, the next, already 18th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club of the International Discussion Club passed. The club was engaged in the presentation of Russia for the first ten years of its existence, and with the transition of the regime in 2014 to a strict confrontation with the West changed dramatically. Now he claims the status of Think Tank, analyzing world political and economic problems, and Russia has gone from the loud formulations of his meetings.