... India to maintain its influence in and around its north-western neighborhood, especially when prospects of instability in both Afghanistan and Pakistan have begun challenging the regional interests of New Delhi.
Lydia Kulik, Alexey Kalinin:
Developing Russia-India Economic Ties Under New Circumstances
Since the demise of the Soviet Union and the emergence of in republics of Central Asia (CARs), countries from the Eurasian region have gone on to become strategically important not only for safeguarding India’s ...
... these existing mechanisms are positive acknowledgements with a hope to what Norway, with its upcoming leadership role in the Council, could further achieve in the region.
Current Challenges
Luiza Brodt:
Increased Asian engagement in the Arctic and Russia-India cooperation in the region
In the last two years, the Arctic Council under Russian chairmanship has failed to meet its desired objective. There are multiple reasons associated with this, the primary being the termination of every form of western ...
... capacity to build such vessels through the “AtmaNirbhar Bharat” (“Self-reliant India”) and “Make in India”
initiatives
. This will put India on a par with other Asian Arctic Council observer countries such as China, Japan and South Korea.
India-Russia current and future cooperation in the Arctic
Developing Russia-India Economic Ties Under New Circumstances. RIAC Policy Brief
Current Indian activity in the Arctic with Russia is more focus on industrial fields like hydrocarbons, coal and steel ...
On February 2, 2023, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) held an annual conference titled « India-Russia Strategic Partnership: New Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World Order»
On February 2, 2023, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) held an annual conference titled « India-Russia ...
... knowledge of today’s India’s changing needs and opportunities. Likewise, similar trends and a thirst for knowledge of today’s Russia are being gradually manifested by Indian business circles.
Consequently, now is the time to consider in detail Russia-India cooperation in investment and trade, analyze the options of diversifying bilateral economic ties in the near future, and outline the obstacles currently obstructing their development. Eliminating those obstacles should be the focus of all the interested ...
... between “iron brothers”, if Beijing denies Moscow’s reported arms requests. About her speculative intentions in implying that Russia and Pakistan have a similar relationship to China, she might have been wanting to sow the seeds of distrust in the Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership.
This suspicion is exacerbated by her later asking “what does New Delhi think of Putin’s assertion that it is ‘natural’ that China’s ‘military might grows along with the rise in the economic potential’, and that ...
... that’s required to continue turbocharging its rise as a globally significant great power.
That last-mentioned observation was on full display after External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar told the West in late November to “
live with [India’s Russian policy]
”, shortly after which new US charge d’affaires in Delhi Elizabeth Jones
acknowledged
that her host’s decision to continue purchasing oil from Moscow in defiance of the West’s price cap is “a sovereign [one]”. That second ...
... Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF) organized a roundtable titled “Keeping track of the Ukraine crisis: new phase and progressing strategic implications”. Discussion centred on the prospects of Russia – India relations, potential of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and current trends on international markets. Russian experts explained Russia’s position in the conflict around Ukraine and crisis with the West.
RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov,...
... belief or faith. We must understand that there are tensions in the world, inescapable tensions. The world is divided geopolitically. Though the geopolitical situation is in transit, it has predominantly been a unipolar world. At least, I can speak for India and Russia, that we both wanted a multipolar world, and a multipolar world, which is based on equity, based on cooperation, based on trust, based on respect, and sovereignty of nations, and conformity with international law. That’s the kind of things we ...
... other dimensions of national power of the legs in both pairs are obviously asymmetric. India is far larger, richer and stronger than Pakistan, while the same is true for Russia vis-a-vis Ukraine. That said, neither Pakistan nor Ukraine is so weak that India or Russia could ignore or manipulate their neighbour with impunity. For India, Pakistan is a much more important foreign policy problem than, say, the neighbouring Sri Lanka, where New Delhi also faces numerous challenges in sustaining its traditional influence....
