Valdai Club

In recent years, climate change has become a central political issue in the West. However, its ideologisation hinders both understanding of the complexity and ambiguity of this issue, and the very fact that there is no consensus in the scientific community on how humans influence climatic dynamics, writes independent economist Alexander Zotin.

The African market is not a panacea and one hundred percent recipe for the development of an effective industrial policy of Russia. This is just one of many directions in which the development of foreign economic activity of our country should proceed. However, to neglect its importance would be extremely short-sighted, writes Alexander Zotin, Director of the International Center for Applied African Studies, Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)