Putin will speak at the Valdai Forum on October 5

Russian President Vladimir Putin will speak at the plenary session of the annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club on October 5. This was announced by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov.

“Putin’s speech at the Valdai Forum is planned for the day after tomorrow,” he said. According to Peskov, the event is expected in the middle of the day.

October 1, journalist Pavel Zarubin reportedthat Putin will speak at a club meeting in Sochi. This year the event takes place from October 2 to 5. The theme of the meeting is “Fair multipolarity: how to ensure security and development for all.”

In 2022, the Valdai Forum was held from October 24 to 27. The meeting at which Putin spoke took place on the last day of the event. Then he statedthat Russia does not consider itself an enemy of the West and does not challenge its elites.

Describing the Western political course, Putin quoted “Harvard Speech” by writer and Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author, according to the president, said that the West is characterized by a “continuing blindness of superiority” that “supports the idea that all vast areas on our planet should develop and evolve into the current Western systems.”