The second day in Vladivostok, President Vladimir Putin will devote to the problems of the region

Today, September 7, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will speak at the plenary session of the VII Eastern Economic Forum (WEF), whose theme this year is “Towards a multipolar world”. The session will be attended by Chairman of the State Administrative Council, Prime Minister of the Interim Government, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Min Aung Hlein, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Mongolia Luvsannamsrein Oyuun-Erdene and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress Lee Zhanshu.

In addition, Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi and Prime Minister of Malaysia Ismail Sabri Yacob will address the participants of the session with video greetings. According to a message on the Kremlin website, during the day the head of state will hold several personal meetings with foreign leaders as part of the WEF-2022. “Our president has been participating in the forum all day on September 7,” Putin’s aide Yury Ushakov told reporters. – This means that both before and after the plenary session, he will hold bilateral meetings with those leaders who will participate [в ВЭФе]”.

The President will work in Primorsky Krai for the second day. The day before, on September 6, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief got acquainted with the course of the Vostok-2022 military strategic command and staff exercises together with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Zvezda TV channel reported. As part of the coalition forces, military contingents and observers from the countries of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and other states worked out joint actions, Zvezda reported. Among these states are Azerbaijan, Algeria, Armenia, Belarus, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Syria, and Tajikistan. In total, more than 50,000 military personnel, more than 5,000 pieces of weapons and military equipment, including 140 aircraft, 60 warships, boats and support vessels, were involved in the implementation of combat training tasks. The exercise program included the use of operational-tactical missiles of the Iskander-M complex, the capture of a settlement with a massive strike by artillery and aircraft, the transition to the offensive and the defeat of the main grouping of enemy troops.

Then Putin returned to Russky Island, where the WEF is held, and held a meeting of the presidium of the State Tourism Council (see the material on vedomosti.ru). The President announced the creation of large federal resorts on the coasts of five seas, including in the Primorsky Territory. After that, Putin listened to a report on the achievements of the ASEZ in the form of interactive presentations and held a meeting with the Governor of the Primorsky Territory, Oleg Kozhemyako.

However, the speeches of Russian politicians also largely fit into the logic of the international agenda: the governor of the Kemerovo region, Sergei Tsivilev, spoke about the connection of his region with the Donbass, and the Minister of Sports, Oleg Matytsin, assured that Russia would win “on all fronts.”

The Russian leader during the plenary meeting of the WEF-2022 will most likely touch upon the topic of Ukraine, according to the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin” (“Russia 1”). “It is worth waiting for new statements on Ukraine,” Pavel Zarubin, the author of the program, said in the program. At this WEF event, the head of state will make a keynote speech, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with TASS. Its main topics will be the processes taking place around the world, as well as the development of the Russian Far East, Peskov said. “Both are interconnected,” the Kremlin spokesman said, when asked whether the focus would be on the development of the Far Eastern Federal District or whether the president would shift his focus to international cooperation with the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. According to Peskov, Putin’s speech will also focus on international trade and economic relations, the difficult political situation, and, in general, global processes that affect everything.

Putin arrived in Primorsky Krai on a visit from Kamchatka Krai. It was from this region that he began his trip to the subjects of the Federation of the Far Eastern Federal District. In Kamchatka, the head of state visited the Falcon Center on September 5, and then met with the participants of the All-Russian Ecological Youth Forum “Ecosystem. Protected area. At it, as reported on the Kremlin website, Putin was provided with information on the activities of the international center for the reproduction and conservation of rare species of large birds of prey “Kamchatka”, and young ornithologists and the general director of the center Shukhrat Razakov demonstrated to the president the skills that the birds had mastered during training, they said about their breeding success. Later, Putin held a large meeting on the socio-economic development of the Kamchatka Territory, talked with Governor Vladimir Solodov, including on the development of an urban agglomeration.

The head of state visits the Far East relatively more often than other regions of Russia, states political scientist Mikhail Vinogradov: “The emphasis during this visit [на ВЭФ-2022] made for the international, not the domestic agenda.” “The President, most likely, will discuss the global agenda in the context of the fact that the Far East is extremely important as a region for Russia’s positioning – China, India and other countries of the region are nearby,” political scientist Alexander Nemtsev agrees with him, in his opinion, it is necessary to oppose the AUKUS association (Australia, UK, USA).

Peskov points out that the Far East is traditionally the most important territory for Russia: “There is a very high dynamics of development there, all the tools that were invented and implemented on the spot are working. This is the TOP, these are special regimes, etc., etc. And, of course, the president always talks about all this in his speeches at the WEF.” “The locals were given a signal that they are now the main region in the country, the gateway to the East, all hope is on them,” political analyst Yevgeny Minchenko is sure. Further, this thesis should be supported in specific decisions.