On June 20, 2023, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) together with the Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) held a workshop on Russian-Indian relations in the new conditions, including their economic, technological and strategic aspects
On June 20, 2023, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) together with the Synergia Foundation (Bangalore, India) held a workshop on Russian-Indian ...
... causes concerns in India. Today, the Indian society supports Russia, but also stands for a peaceful conflict settlement. Moscow remains a key actor in building a multi-polar world, but this should be underpinned by negotiations rather than a struggle.
Russia-India relations need new drivers for further development. Firstly, the countries could cooperate in energy sector, for example, in the Caspian region. Secondly, the bilateral partnership could be accelerated in the investment sphere. India is interested ...
... realities create unprecedented favourable conditions for Chinese business in the Russian market. But for now, China is hardly ready to act openly as a “black knight”, challenging regulators in the US, EU and other Western jurisdictions.
The growth of Russian-Indian trade has reached even higher values. Compared to 2021, this bilateral trade has almost tripled. However, trade with India is a mere tenth the value of Russia’s trade with China. The growth is provided mainly by Russian oil supplies. In itself,...
... 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 ...
