Expanding Hard Power Footprint
The Mauritian government confirmed in a press release on 18 May that India is fully financing a new three-kilometer-long runway on the island of North Agalega where New Delhi has had a military base since 2015. Observers reported these construction efforts a few months ago, speculating on India’s strategic intentions....
The manner in which the world has responded to ameliorate India’s anguish is a testament to how the Indian pandemic diplomacy has stood on a pedestal, navigating through strategic competition, ideological prejudice and nationalist hegemony by prioritizing human beneficence
It’s a once-in-a-century pandemic....
On May 17, 2021, Indian Chamber of International Business held an online conference on topical issues of Russia-India trade, economic and investment relations.
On May 17, 2021, Indian Chamber of International Business held an online conference on topical issues of Russia-India ...
On February 18, 2021, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Deputy Foreign Minister of India, visiting Moscow, had a meeting with a group of Russian foreign policy experts
On February 18, 2021, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Deputy Foreign Minister of India, visiting Moscow, had a meeting with a group of Russian foreign policy experts.
The meeting ...
... the U.S. presidential elections.
On January 14, 2021, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, took part in the webinar on geopolitical implications of the U.S. presidential elections.
The event was organized by Global Counter Terrorism Council, an Indian think tank. The participants of the webinar included diplomats, government officials, representatives of international organizations, and foreign policy experts from South Asia and the Middle East.
Russia and India are going to lose a lot if they have to take sides in this forthcoming US-China rivalry
"Russia is losing India!"—I have been hearing such lamentations in Moscow for as long as I have followed world politics. Pessimism and alarmism ...
... its foreign policy strategy.
Alexey Kupriyanov
, Senior Research Fellow at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, presented his understanding of recent developments in India. According to the expert, New Delhi faces two major challenges: the COVID-19 pandemic and the rivalry with China. The former leaves the country with deteriorating service sector, rising unemployment and exacerbating inequality, which creates additional ...
... power) on the global arena.
Alexey Kupriyanov:
BRICS, SCO and Kashmir Terrorism
One of the most widely recognized sources of countries’ cultural diplomacy is cinema. The film industry has been considered a resource of soft power of the USA, France, India and other nations. In a study dedicated to the role of the American film industry as a tool of U.S. soft power, researcher Yang Li vividly
expressed
this fact in the following manner:
"The American dream embodied by Hollywood movies appeals ...
An anatomy of two decades of strategic bilateral engagement
On October 3, 2000, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Vladimir Putin cemented India-Russia bilateral ties with the signing of the historical agreement, the “
Declaration on the India-Russia Strategic Partnership
.” Two decades since the signing of the agreement, bilateral relations are hailed to have chartered new levels of ...
On October 20, 2020, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) held a joint webinar “Russia — India Strategic Partnership: Assessing Progress and Chartering the Path Forward”, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of signing of the Declaration on Strategic Partnership between ...