Valdai Club

It is obvious that Russian companies organizing the transportation of Russian oil with the involvement of both domestic and foreign ship owners will have to invest in additional measures to ensure fleet insurance, its environmental and physical safety, aimed at countering the above-described steps of unfriendly countries, including possible new sabotage operations against ships, Evgeny Tipailov and Ivan Angulo write.

The creation of closed technological state and corporate clubs, the development and implementation of new measures to limit access to digital technologies, as well as restraining competing cultural and civilizational communities and states in the development of their own digital technologies has in fact already become a reality of international interaction.

A diversification of partnership areas will give Russia room for manoeuvre and will balance some not entirely mutually beneficial alliances, which in the future will help build and strengthen Russia’s capabilities in the zone of its historical influence, write Evgeny Tipailov and Ivan Angulo.

In the further formulation by Russia of its foreign and domestic policies in the context of the growing multipolarity of the world, it is advisable to take into account the number of other features of the functioning civilisational systems, and the civilisational approach itself is actively developed and applied as one of the promising integrated tools in the practice of state building, writes Evgeny Tipailov.

The changes that have begun in the global gas market fit into the process of transformation of the entire system of international relations and international trade. This will result in a new structure emerging for the global gas market and a possible adjustment of the positions of key gas producers and consumers on a number of energy development issues, writes Evgeny Tipailov, Executive Director of the Institute for Problems of Interdependence.