The Postindustrial Era: A Challenge to Russian Politicians

Abstract

V.G. Khoros: Evgenii Maksimovich, your political biography took shape during both the Soviet and the post-Soviet periods. Over the last fifteen years, a lot has changed on our planet. The second world has become a thing of the past. The first world—that is, the most highly developed countries—has entered the postindustrial stage. Today, it dominates the world market in technology, finance, and information and acts as a conductor of international relations (for instance, the policy of NATO expansion). As a person who has met many leaders of the West and the East, how do you perceive this difference in the times? How do you assess the impact of globalization, which proceeds primarily from the center to the rest of the world, the so-called periphery (to which Russia, unfortunately, increasingly belongs)?