... done to bring the economic systems of the individual member-states closer to one another. The convergence of economies could provide an opportunity for this, inter alia, within the framework of other efforts to establish a free trade area (FTA) with India, which was proposed by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in March 2013. What makes the Indian market attractive for domestic Russian businesses, and what benefits can the Russian private sector gain from the convergence of the two economies?...
... the opposition and many supporters of the current prime minister.
The adoption of the first full-fledged federal budget drawn up by the government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Narendra Modi will be the key event of the new session of the Indian Parliament. This explains the special attention paid this year to the main financial document of the country. A few months before its publication, not only Indian but also international business publications too began to bristle with speculation ...
... as opposed to domestic development. There are ample potential partners already willing to cooperate and engage such wishes. After all, the aforementioned Israeli Heron-1 platform has already been sold in recent years to Brazil, France, Germany, and India. Greater Asia Singapore joined the above list of Heron-1 acquirers in 2012. Unlike other countries, Singapore emphasized how the acquisition was just the first step in its long-term plans. Ultimately, success in the drone era according to Singapore ...
... many centuries. Meanwhile, Asia, which has many more political contentions and far fewer mechanisms for resolving them, is concerned mostly with economic development and prosperity.
The rich potential of joint growth of Asian countries – from India to Japan and from China to Indonesia – is the subject of a study done by Timofei Bordachev, Anastasia Likhacheva and Zhang Xin. China’s strategy of turning from a “big state to a strong one” is discussed in Igor Denisov’s ...
Narendra Modi’s atomic diplomacy
A breakthrough in negotiations between New Delhi and Washington on nuclear energy cooperation is an undeniable diplomatic success of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The details of the agreement that was reached are virtually unknown. However, it is already clear that the agreement could have a significant impact not only on the development of relations between India and its neighbors,...
India over the several past decades has offered a cautionary example of how a country can sacrifice its natural environment for economic and demographic growth by launching a vicious circle of ecological degradation that is becoming increasingly unbreakable....
Russia Beyond the Headlines, an international project of Rossiyskaya Gazeta, has issued a collection of essays "
A New Era: India-Russia Ties in the 21st Century
", the first Russian publication in India after disintegration of the Soviet Union complied jointly by RIAC and Indian
Observer Research Foundation
.
The collection was
presented
to Chairman of State Duma Sergey ...
... weight when the rest of the world is measuring the items by units. This is the situation with bulk iron ore and simple steel production.
Devaluation of the ruble is increasing demand for Russian ore and steel, notably at the expense of producers in India.
Meanwhile state and parastatal companies based in China and Hong Kong use clever methods to dominate world iron ore and crude steel production and their logistics. To assume that Chinese executives do not discuss price and logistics issues with ...
The meeting of Russian, Indian and Chinese foreign ministers in Beijing early February seems to have been of much greater significance than most of their previous meetings. As a matter of fact, it took place almost immediately after President Obama’s trip to India, where ...
India and Russia need to identify genuine political convergence
We are not going back to the world we knew. Politically, economically and socially the global pendulum has been swinging in multiple arcs, in an uncharacteristic manner. The present times ...
