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

N. Modi has enough time to restore the level of support and push the planned reforms forward. May 2021 marks two years since Narendra Modi was re-elected as the prime minister of India. In total, the Indian leader has been in power at the national level for 7 years, since 2014. The new wave of the pandemic that has hit India interfered with the interim assessment of Narendra Modi’s second tenure as Prime Minister in a positive ...

27.05.2021

What’s the Purpose of India’s Military Base in Mauritius?

Expanding Hard Power Footprint The Mauritian government confirmed in a press release on 18 May that India is fully financing a new three-kilometer-long runway on the island of North Agalega where New Delhi has had a military base since 2015. Observers reported these construction efforts a few months ago, speculating on India’s strategic intentions....

21.05.2021

Russian Experts Meet with Deputy Foreign Minister of India Harsh Vardhan Shringla

On February 18, 2021, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Deputy Foreign Minister of India, visiting Moscow, had a meeting with a group of Russian foreign policy experts On February 18, 2021, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, Deputy Foreign Minister of India, visiting Moscow, had a meeting with a group of Russian foreign policy experts. The meeting ...

19.02.2021

Andrey Kortunov Speaks on the Consequences of the U.S. Elections at Global Counter Terrorism Council Webinar

... the U.S. presidential elections. On January 14, 2021, Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, took part in the webinar on geopolitical implications of the U.S. presidential elections. The event was organized by Global Counter Terrorism Council, an Indian think tank. The participants of the webinar included diplomats, government officials, representatives of international organizations, and foreign policy experts from South Asia and the Middle East.

15.01.2021

Russia Moves East, India West, Straining Ties

Russia and India are going to lose a lot if they have to take sides in this forthcoming US-China rivalry "Russia is losing India!"—I have been hearing such lamentations in Moscow for as long as I have followed world politics. Pessimism and alarmism ...

28.12.2020

Experts Discuss the Near Future of the Asia Pacific Region

... its foreign policy strategy. Alexey Kupriyanov , Senior Research Fellow at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, presented his understanding of recent developments in India. According to the expert, New Delhi faces two major challenges: the COVID-19 pandemic and the rivalry with China. The former leaves the country with deteriorating service sector, rising unemployment and exacerbating inequality, which creates additional ...

24.12.2020

BRICS and the Western-Centric Global Film Industry: Possibilities of the Digital Era

... power) on the global arena. Alexey Kupriyanov: BRICS, SCO and Kashmir Terrorism One of the most widely recognized sources of countries’ cultural diplomacy is cinema. The film industry has been considered a resource of soft power of the USA, France, India and other nations. In a study dedicated to the role of the American film industry as a tool of U.S. soft power, researcher Yang Li vividly expressed this fact in the following manner: "The American dream embodied by Hollywood movies appeals ...

29.10.2020
 

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