Vladimir Putin delivered a keynote speech at the plenary session of the Valdai Discussion Club.

Key points and quotes from the President of Russia at the beginning of his speech:

- The world has reached a critical turning point in its development, and this is not just about politics.
- Sooner or later, everyone in the world will have to agree on the principles of a new world order.
- Trends on the global stage force us to consider how to preserve global peace and security.
- Many of the previous norms of international law in the world have been discarded, and new ones have not yet emerged.
- The world's responsibility for the common future is not an abstract slogan.
- The scale of the changes that have already occurred in the world and those that are coming is enormous.
- The continuation of international conflicts in the near future is very likely, and that is the trend.
- We must avoid catastrophic scenarios and take practical steps to prevent humanity from sliding towards the brink of survival.
- Western countries exert a disproportionately large influence in the UN, which leads to an imbalance. Russia supports a fair reform of the UN, but this is impossible without consensus, which is currently difficult to achieve.
- In today's global politics, all conceivable and inconceivable taboos are being violated. The principle of "might makes right" seems to be dominant for some countries, but it does not lead to anything good.

Vladimir Putin also noted that the world still has to learn to live with AI, and called for preventing digital totalitarianism in the development of artificial intelligence:

"Such digital totalitarianism will be just as dead-end, gloomy, and inhumane as the totalitarian societies of the past that we know."

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