... create unprecedented favourable conditions for Chinese business in the Russian market. But for now, China is hardly ready to act openly as a “black knight”, challenging regulators in the US, EU and other Western jurisdictions.
The growth of Russian-Indian trade has reached even higher values. Compared to 2021, this bilateral trade has almost tripled. However, trade with India is a mere tenth the value of Russia’s trade with China. The growth is provided mainly by Russian oil supplies. In itself,...
India now finds itself delicately balancing the two opposing poles—this, however, also presents it with the opportunity to expand its global influence by negotiating for peace
New Delhi’s long-standing strategic partnership with Russia has witnessed ...
... is provided with the perfect opportunity to push for regional interests that it has been working towards for years
From being an observer state in 2005 to gaining full membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in 2017, time has come for India to shoulder the Chairmanship and host the SCO Summit of 2023. The baton to chair the Summit of 2023 for the 8-member Organization was passed onto India from Uzbekistan, at the Samarkand Summit of 2022.
Lydia Kulik, Alexey Kalinin:
Developing Russia-India ...
... existing mechanisms are positive acknowledgements with a hope to what Norway, with its upcoming leadership role in the Council, could further achieve in the region.
Current Challenges
Luiza Brodt:
Increased Asian engagement in the Arctic and Russia-India cooperation in the region
In the last two years, the Arctic Council under Russian chairmanship has failed to meet its desired objective. There are multiple reasons associated with this, the primary being the termination of every form of western ...
India recognises the value of having different forums to advocate its Arctic issues
It is hard not to notice the growing activity of non-Arctic states in the Arctic region. Over the past 10 years, since China, Japan, India, Singapore and South Korea ...
On February 2, 2023, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) held an annual conference titled « India-Russia Strategic Partnership: New Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World Order»
On February 2, 2023, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the ...
... orbit of Chinese influence
Bangladesh has been boasting the highest economic growth rates among the countries of South Asia over the past 10 years. The nation’s GDP per capita
has reached
USD 2,500, a number that surpasses those of the neighboring India and Pakistan. Dhaka is keen on fostering relations with Beijing, New Delhi and Washington concurrently. However, amidst the ongoing tectonic shifts in the global political system and economy, excessive diversification of relations is likely to harm ...
Policy Brief 43 / 2022
Policy Brief 43 / 2022
In the current geopolitical situation, Russia is readjusting its long-term asymmetrical gravitation toward the West. At the same time, India continues to steer its independent foreign policy, creating unique opportunities for building qualitatively new cooperation in investment, trade, and the economy between Moscow and New Delhi. For many years, Russian-Indian trade failed to match ...
The Wire published a piece by Anita Inder Singh, a Founding Professor of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution in New Delhi, declaring that “India Is Wrong: Russia’s Aggression in Ukraine Has Global, Not Just European Ramifications”. With the fullest of respect for this esteemed expert’s right to express her views about the Ukrainian Conflict, she arguably has a flawed perception about ...
India’s pragmatic policy of principled neutrality towards the Ukrainian conflict successfully safeguarded its hard-earned strategic autonomy
India’s pragmatic policy of principled neutrality towards the Ukrainian conflict is responsible for turbocharging ...
