RIAC and VIF Report #34, 2017
In 2017, Russia and India celebrate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations. Over the years, the two states have steadily developed mutually beneficial ties. Their cooperation has achieved the level of special and privileged strategic partnership. Regular contacts between ...
On October 12–13, 2017, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in partnership with Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA) will host an international conference titled “Strategic Visions of Russia-India Relations and Changes in the World Order”. The aim of the conference is to put forward practical recommendations on improving Russia-India ...
In 1947, several months before official claiming of Indian Independence, Soviet Union became the very first nation acknowledged New India. In 1971 Moscow and Delhi signed Treaty on Peace, Friendship and Cooperation which was resumed in 1993 due to Soviet Union collapse and complemented in 2000 by Declaration ...
... Organisation), as this would be opposed by Ukraine. This leaves Asia as the lone continent able to supply peacekeeping troops that would be respected by, and acceptable to, both the Russians and the Ukrainians.
Which countries in Asia? Answer: Likely India. Perhaps Indonesia. Chinese participation is not to be excluded. What is critical is that both Moscow and Kiev see the peacekeepers as neutral and professional. In the case of India, in particular, there is conspicuous historical sympathy among ...
INSTC route will facilitate seamless movement of goods and commodities between India and Russia as well as other CIS countries via Iran
I. INTUC: An Introduction
The 7,200 km International North South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is a multi-mode transport network linking Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea via Iran,...
... terms of cost, efficiency and in the ability to create a territorial cordon sanitaire with minimal risk of escalation. Suicidal terrorists will be neutralized by miniature kamikaze drones. What more can a jawan ask for along the LOC in Kashmir? Make in India drones? But where does India stand in this transformative Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA)? Although it is acquiring local and foreign drones for a variety of anticipated missions, the Israeli Searchers, Herons, Harpys and Harops remain the ...
... 2025 and landing a man on the Moon by 2030. Amid the country’s broad space background and capacity for possessing all the space technologies known by the time, it makes Russia alluring as the potential “teacher” for space “newcomers”.
ISRO
India's Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator Project
India
The first and prior goals of the Indian space program are to preserve Common Heritage of Mankind (through unambiguous support for the points of the Moon Treaty) [
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... development within BRICS in such key areas of interaction as policy and security, economy, trade and investment, agriculture, science and innovation, education, health, culture, etc. has passed. The first summit of the heads of state from Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) was held on the initiative of Russia in 2009 in Yekaterinburg. The format was considered successful, and summit meetings became annual. In 2011, the most economically developed state of Africa, South Africa, became an official member ...
As a constant of history, the nation States are busy in trying to adapt to the highly unstable geo-strategic environment. As the countries pursue their national interests, new alliances are emerging and the global order is in a flux. Indian so-called strategic partnership with the U.S is an example in which New Delhi has latched on to Washington’s weakness to contain a rising China and resurgent Russia. In order to gain balance in Asia-Pacific region, the U.S. has formed an axis ...
Some Beltway based experts on South Asia have either got their maths wrong or they are politically motivated in their fissile material stocks assessments about India and Pakistan. Their guesstimates portray Pakistan sporting the fastest growing nuclear arsenal in the world whereas even a layman view over the developments in the triad of means being developed by India shows that the country should develop large ...