On Russia's paradigm of advanced development
Russia has restored dignity to its military, its military-industrial complex and its foreign policy. This trifecta has turned our power into an international grandmaster of the “Grand Chessboard”, giving simultaneous winning sessions to the collective West. Russia is getting its own way, despite the economic collapse in the 1990s, slow economic growth in the years that followed, permanent financial crises, and now in the throes of serious information and sanctions aggression from the West.