Russia Beyond the Headlines, an international project of Rossiyskaya Gazeta, has issued a collection of essays "
A New Era: India-Russia Ties in the 21st Century
", the first Russian publication in India after disintegration of the Soviet Union complied jointly by RIAC and Indian
Observer Research Foundation
.
The collection was
presented
to Chairman of State Duma Sergey ...
... weight when the rest of the world is measuring the items by units. This is the situation with bulk iron ore and simple steel production.
Devaluation of the ruble is increasing demand for Russian ore and steel, notably at the expense of producers in India.
Meanwhile state and parastatal companies based in China and Hong Kong use clever methods to dominate world iron ore and crude steel production and their logistics. To assume that Chinese executives do not discuss price and logistics issues with ...
The meeting of Russian, Indian and Chinese foreign ministers in Beijing early February seems to have been of much greater significance than most of their previous meetings. As a matter of fact, it took place almost immediately after President Obama’s trip to India, where ...
India and Russia need to identify genuine political convergence
We are not going back to the world we knew. Politically, economically and socially the global pendulum has been swinging in multiple arcs, in an uncharacteristic manner. The present times ...
... 2014, Nepal’s capital Kathmandu hosted the 18th SAARC Summit. After three years without a meeting, this was a landmark event in the political environment in South Asia. However, traditional differences between the two regional leaders – India and Pakistan – nearly torpedoed the Summit. Should this multilateral organization be analyzed from the perspective of the complex India-Pakistan relations, or should it be considered a solid platform for solving economic problems in the region?...
... a wider cooperation format. The main pressure points in this could be Armenian–Turkish relations and the confrontation between western countries and Russia over the Ukrainian question.
At the 17th St Petersburg Economic Forum in June 2013 the Indian delegation also initiated a process of negotiations on India’s entry into the Customs Union. However, no documents were signed. India is very interested in expanding trade and economic cooperation with Russia and Kazakhstan primarily. There ...
On October 17, 2014, a group of RIAC members and experts met Indian Ambassador in Russia P.S. Raghavan and several senior diplomats from the Indian Embassy.
The session was attended by RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Dean of World Politics Department of Moscow State University Andrey Kokoshin, Director ...
New Delhi is not going to join any anti-Russian efforts and U.S. plans to contain China
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the U.S. and his talks with President Barack Obama are no doubt an important development in fostering bilateral New Delhi-Washington ties, although on the surface it has hardly yielded any tangible ...
On the eve of prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington, the Obama administration and friendly media have positioned the new Indian leader as a leader who is open to reforming big government and implementing free market policies. But critics of Modi say that the much heralded economic performance of his Gurajat state, based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is merely at parity ...
Conflict in the mountains
The meeting between the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan that was scheduled for 25 August 2014 in Islamabad has been postponed at the request of New Delhi because of the situation around Kashmir. So far there is no new date for the consultations. The Kashmir problem may become aggravated ...