The Indian authorities striving to reduce the country’s dependence on tools developed aboard
India has a solid and well-deserved reputation as one of the leaders in the global IT industry. This makes it all the more surprising that, until recently, Indian ...
... transforming the current negative dynamics both in the Gulf and in the Middle East in general. As the saying goes, every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
Let us rewind history 15 years and move southwest of the Strait of Hormuz to the Indian Ocean around the Horn of Africa. It is here, in the Gulf of Aden, that Somalian pirates regularly captured dozens of foreign ships a year in the early 21st century. This criminal business grew steadily and finally became a major obstacle for the ...
Event Report
Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) held the 2nd International Conference “Strategic Visions of Russia–India Relations in a Changing World Order”, at Sapru House, New Delhi, on November 14-15, 2018. It followed up the 1st Сonference under the ...
Gleb Ivashentsov, RIAC Vice President, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia, delivered the key speech at the meeting
On July 11, 2019, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a meeting with the delegation of
Vision India Foundation
(VIF).
Gleb Ivashentsov, RIAC Vice President, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia, delivered the key speech at the meeting.
The Indian delegation was headed by VIF Executive Director Shobhit Mathur. The group consisted ...
... Reforms Needed with Russian Labor Migration?
Russia will actively support skilled workers to live in these areas of low population and encourage permanent residence if workers build closer ties to Russia. Russia specifically wants to negotiate with India on its State Migration Policy concept so India may provide the skilled workers needed to promote the economic development of Russia in these low populated areas.
On 31 October 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the State
Migration Policy ...
... circumstances were naturally the focus of the recent Bishkek summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), an alliance that has begun to stake its claim to being both a both trans-continental and global organization following the accession of India and Pakistan to its ranks. At the same time, while last year’s Shanghai 8 meeting in Qingdao, China was a sort of overture for its two new members, the Kyrgyzstan summit demonstrated the Organization’s rather quick (albeit not entirely smooth) ...
... plausibly shifting, towards decoding the prospective strategic-priorities and attendant policy-parameters, that would constitute and chaperone foreign policy and national security, under a Modi strategic calculus 2.0. (At the time of penning this account, India had not tallied, its federal election results).
The features of the electoral campaign
Unless in the grips of existentialism, national security and foreign policy dimensions rarely figure on the campaign-stump in India, or for that matter across ...
What prevents Russia and India from making a breakthrough in bilateral relations?
Russia has been trying to turn towards the East for five years now, and the Indian vector traditionally gives a lot of hope. However, over time, the content of Russia-India relations is getting ...
RIAC Director General gave the keynote speech at the meeting. RIAC Program Manager Ksenia Kuzmina also took part in the event.
On May 14, 2019, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) hosted a meeting with a group of Indian diplomats. The delegation included D. B. Venkatesh Varma, Ambassador of India to the Russian Federation, Vikram Misri, Ambassador of India to the People's Republic of China, Sanjay Verma, Ambassador of India to Japan, Kumar Tuhin, Ambassador of ...
... of BRICS and the SCO in Coordinating Anti-Terrorist Activities in South Asia
On February 14, 2019, a suicide bomber from the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist organization drove a car filled with explosives into a bus that was transporting members of the Indian security forces, killing over 40 people. India immediately accused Pakistan of being behind the attack and started a “diplomatic offensive” against Islamabad similar to the one of it launched in September 2016 when it attempted to isolate Pakistan ...