Valdai Club

To understand the phenomenon of science, its critical spirit is extremely important. Science is unique in the sense that it values even the knowledge of its own mistakes; it values the refutation of plausible hypotheses and erroneous results.

We, figuratively speaking, are fighting according to other people’s maps; we use the picture of the world created by the West in its own interests. Only its deep revision will allow us to achieve success in clashing with the West and win the sympathy of non-Western countries that are in dire need of an alternative picture of the world, but do not have the necessary intellectual resources to create it, writes Vyacheslav Shuper.