... 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 ...
... Zealand. They are likely to remain in close alliance with the United States and on an anti-Chinese footing, although the alliances themselves were created amid different realities. However, the list of coalition members seems to have been exhausted.
India is potentially the most valuable member of the anti-Chinese coalition. Delhi has old contradictions with Beijing, which have recently become more acute. But luring India into a tough anti-Chinese coalition led by the United States will be difficult....
... experts discussed Russia's interests in South Asia and promising areas of interaction between the Russian Federation and regional players. The emphasis was placed on prospects of multilateral cooperation, including trilateral initiatives of Russia, India and Japan in the Far East.
Participants paid special attention to Moscow's approaches to regional initiatives, in particular to the Indo-Pacific concept. Russia's cooperation with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) was ...
The conference was jointly organized by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA). The joint conference has been held since 2017 alternatively in Moscow and New Delhi
On July 15, 2020, International Conference “Russia – India Relations in the Context of Post-Pandemic Global Order” was ...
On July 10, 2020, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in cooperation with Gateway House held an online round-table discussion “Situation on the Global Energy Market and Prospects for Russia — India Cooperation”.
On July 10, 2020, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in cooperation with Gateway House held an online round-table discussion “Situation on the Global Energy Market and Prospects for Russia — India Cooperation”....
