Interview for Gateway House
Russia, the founding member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), has been hit by Western sanctions on its energy exports and financial system. Still,
Ivan Timofeev
, Director of Programs at the Russian International Affairs Council, sees new opportunities to be seized. Deepening India-Russia business engagement is one, and the SCO as a constructive ...
... Under those circumstances, India needed Russia, which became the invaluable source of state-of-the-art defense supplies, nuclear and space technologies to India. Moreover, being a permanent member of the UN Security Council and a participant of G8, Moscow was willing and capable of supporting India and mediating its relations with the Western world and its regional rivals.
Now Russia is facing international sanctions and suffering from the deficit of support in the international arena while India is a legitimate player in the global politics with Indian Prime Minister Modi being welcomed as a headliner at global governance fora such as the World Economic ...