On October 4, 2015, Russkiy Mir Foundation, National Committee for BRICS Studies and Indian Observer Research Foundation held Russian-Indian dialogue "New Global Challenges: Roles of Russia and India" with participation of key Russian and Indian foreign policy experts.
Speakers at Session One were RIAC Member Vyacheslav Nikonov,...
... number of UNSC members was increased from 11 to 15. We support the idea of a further expansion and believe that the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are underrepresented in the UNSC. Therefore, we support the applications from India and Brazil for permanent representation in the UNSC. We believe that a permanent presence of the African continent in the council must be ensured in a similar way because, let me stress this again, the developing countries are clearly not sufficiently ...
On August 27, 2015, RIAC held working a meeting "Russia and India: Toward a New Bilateral Agenda" attended by Chief Researcher of Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations Andrey Volodin, Head of Asia Sector at Asia and Middle East Center of Russian Institute for Strategic Studies ...
... the founding countries themselves, as well as their priority partners. It is also important to note that individual infrastructure problems exist not only in these partner countries, but also in all of the BRICS countries.
Among the BRICS countries, India has the most infrastructural issues. Accordingly, the development of large-scale infrastructure projects is an
absolute priority
(
Table 1
).
Table 1.
Infrastructure Development Level in BRICS countries and their Priority Partner countries (2010—2014)
...
... a realistic assessment of the continent’s prospects for becoming a driver of global economic development. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the regions that will show the most economic growth in 2015 are China (7.1 per cent), India (6.4 per cent) and West Africa (5.8 per cent). And if China’s economy slows down, West Africa will benefit. While the BRICS countries continue to act as competitors, they are striving towards cooperation. At the 2013 Summit in Durban, the ...
On June 29, 2016, RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev was in Berlin at a symposium under
project
New Responses to Global Challenges to Finance, Energy Security and Climate Change: Cooperation between the U.S.A., Russia, China and India attended by think-tankers from the four countries.
The discussants analyzed the condition of the global system in 2015 and profound changes in the international economic relationships, as well as the growth models to be taken up by Russia, the U....
... national levels.
1)
Reform of the UN Security Council (the global level)
:
The general financial structures of the BRICS countries guarantee stability against the background of increasing instability.
Given their political and economic positions, India and Brazil do not feel that the current structure of the UN Security Council adequately reflects contemporary reality. Their concern stems from the fact that they must rely on Russia and China to represent the interests of the BRICS countries at ...
... Country with strong mobile base has been successfully been able to penetrate the E-Commerce business. Russia with a mobile base close to 122 million in 2017 from 105 million in 2011 has seen a growth of hardly only 20% in six years. Where as country like India has seen a got a mobile user base of more than a Billion. According to Moscow’s Data Insight, Russia has a 10.4 billion euro ecommerce market in 2013, up 27 percent from 2012. This represented a mere 2% of the total retail market. The largest ...
Five milestones of N. Modi’s visit to China
The five famous principles of peaceful co-existence, or Panchsheel in Sanskrit, were first set out in the Indo-Chinese agreement of 1954. Then the People's Republic of China and the Republic of India – two young states in the developing world – resolved the conflict over Tibet and unexpectedly became political trendsetters. The principles of Panchsheel reflected the new reality of international life. Forming the basis for the Non-Aligned ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given high priority to foreign policy over the past 12 months. Even those crititcally tuned to Minister Modi as a politician acknowledge he has made a relatively smooth transition from the position of Chief Minister ...