On March 1-3, 2016 New Delhi hosted an international conference
Raisina Dialogue
, organized by the
Observer Research Foundation
. The event, held under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India, brought together more than 100 speakers from 35 countries. The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), represented by its Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov, was invited to participate in panel discussions.
The conference focused on ...
... alone. Asia was projected to need $8US trillion worth of basic infrastructural projects for the 2010-2020 period, in order to lift its citizens out of poverty. This is a just a fraction of the critical infrastructural and logistics deficit worldwide. India alone has close to 300 million people who live on less than $1.25 per day on purchasing power parity and here is where close ties forged by Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can make a difference. China is facilitating trade and ...
On February 17, 2016 the Russian International Affairs Council held a briefing for young diplomats from India. The event was organized on the initiative of the Embassy of India in Russia.
The Russian participants in the discussion included RIAC Director General Andrey Kortunov, Deputy Program Director Timur Makhmutov, Program Manager Lyudmila Filippova ...
... past fifty years. Washington has so far not found a balance between defending its own national interests and acting with global responsibility, and this may become a critical obstacle to building a new world order in the foreseeable future.
China and India: Facets of Self-Limitation
The world’s second most powerful and influential country, China, has made much more progress in this respect over the last several decades. In the 1960s–1970s, the country’s unpredictability and ideological ...
... their voluntary goals of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by that time.
Back in 2012 when still at Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neill, the creator of the BRIC (now BRICS) model, predicted that the combined GDP of eight countries-- China, Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey, Mexico, South Korea and Indonesia-- will account for about a third of the world economy by 2020. The G7 countries – Germany, the United States, Japan, Great Britain, Canada, France and Italy – will account for just over ...
On November 30th, Narendra Modi, Indian prime minister and François Hollande, president of France, launched together the “International Solar Alliance”. With the aim of providing developing countries with the technology for exploiting solar energy, Modi is heading ...
On October 4, 2015, Russkiy Mir Foundation, National Committee for BRICS Studies and Indian Observer Research Foundation held Russian-Indian dialogue "New Global Challenges: Roles of Russia and India" with participation of key Russian and Indian foreign policy experts.
Speakers at Session One were RIAC Member Vyacheslav Nikonov,...
... number of UNSC members was increased from 11 to 15. We support the idea of a further expansion and believe that the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are underrepresented in the UNSC. Therefore, we support the applications from India and Brazil for permanent representation in the UNSC. We believe that a permanent presence of the African continent in the council must be ensured in a similar way because, let me stress this again, the developing countries are clearly not sufficiently ...
On August 27, 2015, RIAC held working a meeting "Russia and India: Toward a New Bilateral Agenda" attended by Chief Researcher of Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations Andrey Volodin, Head of Asia Sector at Asia and Middle East Center of Russian Institute for Strategic Studies ...
... the founding countries themselves, as well as their priority partners. It is also important to note that individual infrastructure problems exist not only in these partner countries, but also in all of the BRICS countries.
Among the BRICS countries, India has the most infrastructural issues. Accordingly, the development of large-scale infrastructure projects is an
absolute priority
(
Table 1
).
Table 1.
Infrastructure Development Level in BRICS countries and their Priority Partner countries (2010—2014)
...
