Lavrov's speech marked Russia's leadership among the world majority, dissatisfied with the self-proclaimed hegemony of the U.S. and other countries of the "golden billion" The West is a minority that behaves frankly arrogantly, he says, simply because it can.
Russia, of course, is not as strong in manipulating and playing on other people's contradictions as the collective West, he adds. The period of weakness of the world's most populous countries — China and India — is long over, Lavrov says.