... whenever it refers to “external powers,” for India the main external power in South Asia is China.
From the Indian perspective, it is Beijing that seeks to expand its military footprint in different Eurasian subregions, which is fraught with risks for India. In this context, the strength of the Russian initiative is that Moscow offers the main stakeholders to identify specific areas of cooperation in joint security, which would remove the issue of deploying military bases of “non-Eurasian” states from the agenda. Even though it is a long-term ...
... Ukraine crisis began, and since then the annual bilateral summits have been unofficially put on pause. Now, finally, Modi is coming to Russia again—and this meeting is likely to be quite different from all previous ones, because over the past two years, India–Russia relations have undergone a transformation that would have been hard to imagine even five years ago.
Still a Polycentric World
Russia — India Relations in Broader Geopolitical Context. RIAC and Synergia Foundation Report
In the previous decade ...
... development of the security situation in Europe, Asia-Pacific and South Asia amid the changing global environment. The participants paid special attention to the Special military operation in Ukraine the Indo-Pakistani conflict and relations in the Russia – India – China triangle.
... Research Fellow at the NatStrat, India
Russia-India relations are evolving and deepening. The Arctic is becoming a critical region for further cooperation between the two countries as Russia - Western relations continue to breakdown. In this light, India-Russia relations could prove to be beneficial to both countries. What are India’s priorities in the Arctic and in its relations with Russia? Which areas are most beneficial for both countries? Can paradiplomacy be an option to further bilateral cooperation?...
... for nonregional powers to play more prominent roles in and around Eurasia.
Andrey Kortunov:
Unpacking GCI: China’s Strategic Vision Comes of Age
Can Moscow make a meaningful contribution to an improvement in China-India relations? The trilateral Russia-India-China (RIC) format has existed for more than 20 years, but it has been gradually overshadowed by BRICS and the SCO. However, maybe the time has come to put more emphasis on RIC.
For instance, Moscow could offer Beijing and New Delhi joint trilateral ...
... interests and the right to choose our own path of development.
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In December 2023, after taking presidential office, President of Argentina Javier Milei sent official notifications to Brazilian President Lula da Silva, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, that his country would not join the group. – Editor’s Note.
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Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates formally joined the BRICS group on January 1, 2024. – Editor’s Note.
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... importance of certain types of state activity. We already see that the modern state is faced with such serious challenges that foreign policy is everywhere subject to considerations of a domestic, political nature. This applies to the Western countries, Russia, China, India and everyone else, and places the most significance on such things that existing theories are not able to make heads or tails of them, simply due to the methodology they have.
One of the curious effects of the two World Wars and, especially, the ...
... attended by a representative delegation from China, which was seen by its participants as a desire of New Delhi and Beijing to start a dialogue on regional issues from their scientific “component.”
D Suba Chandran:
Polar Regions Offer Enough Space for India and Russia to Map What Nations Can Do Together
Since 2013, the dialogue between Northern European and Asian scientists on the Arctic and the Third Pole has been transferred to the format of the Polar Circle international forum initiated by Mr. Grimson. In ...
... ‘drivers’, tend to follow one set of rules or the other, without any regard for past agreements or the approaches used by the regulators. And sometimes without much regard even for the interests of ‘passengers’.
Sergei Melkonian, Jason Wahlang:
India in the South Caucasus: Implications for Russia, Iran and Turkey
So far, the key problem in the Caucasus could be the lack of regional integration. The Transcaucasian countries have different views on their own prospects. And even if were were to presuppose the accelerated signing of a peace ...
... that loops through Southeast-East Asia into the Arctic and can then go back through Russia to India via Iran with a spoke cutting right into Central Asia. Upon its completion, optimization, and scaling, all of which will take some time to manifest, the Russian-Indian Strategic Partnership will reaffirm its role as the supreme balancing force in the global systemic transition.
Neither Russia nor India would be at risk of becoming disproportionately dependent on China or the U.S. correspondingly due to their ...
