Search: COVID-19,India (6 materials)

Russian and Indian Experts Compare Notes on Key Issues of Bilateral Interest

... Turkey, Egypt, France and Russia, and Victoria Panova, Vice Rector for International Relations at the Far Eastern Federal University, Managing Director of the National Committee of BRICS Research and RIAC Member, spoke during the first session “Post-Covid-19 Global and Regional Trends.” Anil Wadhwa, Former Secretary (East) of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and former Ambassador to Italy, Poland, Thailand, and Oman, and Andrey Volodin, Head of the Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South at the Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Primakov ...

23.06.2021

Second Pandemic Wave Tests India’s Reforms and its Leader’s Popularity

... infectious and dangerous for young people. A nationwide lockdown was not announced, but local authorities impose restrictions of their own. Life stands still again in India’s capital, New Delhi. According to official statistics, the total number of COVID-19 cases in India, throughout the entire time of the pandemic, exceeds 20 million, with more than 220,000 people dead. Weathering the storm of the pandemic Dattesh Parulekar: India’s Pandemic Predicament: Gnarled Odyssey of Politics but Performance too Although ...

27.05.2021

India’s Pandemic Predicament: Gnarled Odyssey of Politics but Performance too

... of the ravaging second wave of a severely mutating pandemic threatening to embarrassingly overwhelm the nation’s abysmal healthcare apparatus? Taming the First Wave: The Modi Government’s Alacrity on Display Andrey Kortunov: Global Victory Over COVID-19: What Price Are We Willing to Pay? When the virus proliferated during early 2020, India was invariably perceived as the weak link, with no easy choices on hand. No wonder then that Prime Minister Modi bit the bullet and opted for a stringent national lockdown, albeit abruptly declared—something only a courageous statesman like him ...

20.05.2021

The 2000 Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia

... has been at the cusp of litmus test, as it has endured events such as the 9/11 terrorist attack, colour revolutions, the Georgian War, the economic depression in 2008, the 26/11 Mumbai attack, the Crimean referendum and its aftermath and the current COVID-19 pandemic. It is therefore worth reflecting on the two decades of a seemingly positive bilateral engagement between India and Russia. It is important to analyse how the agreement signed in 2000 has played a role in the continuum of ensuring the mutual understanding, peaceful cooperation and reliability between the two strategic partners. This is also an opportunity ...

28.10.2020

RIAC at the Global Counter Terrorism Council’s Webinar

On April 30, 2020, Ksenia Kuzmina, RIAC Program Manager, took part in the webinar dealing with “Relevance of BRI: Post COVID-19” hosted by the Indian think tank Global Counter Terrorism Council On April 30, 2020, Ksenia Kuzmina, RIAC Program Manager, took part in the webinar dealing with “Relevance of BRI: Post COVID-19” hosted by the Indian think tank Global Counter Terrorism Council....

30.04.2020

Coronavirus as a Problem of Fathers and Sons

... first candidates for dismissal during the inevitable cuts in production and massive bankruptcies of enterprises? Ivan Timofeev: COVID-19: Toward New Forms of Social Organisation? Had we lived in another epoch, the fate of the old people would seem less significant.... ... years old). Last year the seventy-year milestone was crossed by the UN Secretary General António Guterres. And this year, the Indian leader Narendra Modi celebrates his seventieth birthday. In China and Russia, Xi Jingping (66 years old) and Vladimir Putin ...

28.03.2020

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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