... the IOS RAS. Svetlana Gavrilova, RIAC Director of Programs, moderated the session.
During the first session, the presentation of the RIAC report, “Extra-Regional actors in the Middle East”, was held. The experts discussed regional strategies of Russia, USA, EU, China and India. Speakers in this session were the report authors: Alexander Aksenenok, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-President; Alexander Lomanov, Acting Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Primakov Institute ...
March 27, 2025
On March 27, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), supported by the
Embassy of India in Russia
, will host the first ever Russia and India: Towards a New Bilateral Agenda International Conference. The event will bring together public officials and experts from Moscow, New Delhi, and other cities and regions of the two countries.
The year ...
... India; and Nikhilesh Giri, Deputy Head of Mission at the Embassy of the Republic of India (online) delivered the welcoming remarks and greeted the speakers.
The Conference was structured into three theme-based sessions devoted to different domains of the India-Russia partnership.
At the introductory session “Changing Dynamics in the Global Order”, the parties presented their views on the specific features of the two countries’ current foreign policy strategies. In particular, the participants discussed ...
... in US dollars, euros and the other currencies of the initiating countries. Transport restrictions have complicated logistics, and price caps on oil and oil products have indirectly increased the costs of suppliers.
Alexey Kupriyanov:
New Agenda of Russia-India Relations
However, Russia is vigorously breaking through isolation thanks to relations with friendly countries. India plays a significant role among them. Over the past two years, trade between the two countries has increased several times, including ...
... to India through the
Vladivostok Port to Chennai Port
along the East Maritime corridor. This partnership aligns beautifully with the labour prospects of both nations, as Indian Foreign Minister
Dr. Jaishankar highlighted
the immense potential for India-Russia collaboration in tackling global workforce challenges. He emphasized that demographic imbalances are a key driver of labour shortages worldwide. With a vision for the future, he advocated for a focused initiative to equip Indian talent for the ...
... together more than 100 countries to share vital challenges and priorities on a common platform.
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Liudmila A. Pechishcheva: Dear Dr. Shoaib Khan! I appreciate your interest in my questions on one of the most up-to-date issues related to India-Russia strategic cooperation as well as India’s role in the Global South. I would like to thank you for your time. What are the positive aspects in cultural, educational, and scientific cooperation between Russia and India?
Dr. Khan: Russia has been ...
... is more rigid at the same time, while the situational one might be more ambiguous, but also more flexible, which is very important under the current challenging political circumstances [
2
].
Security and development
Alexey Kupriyanov:
New Agenda of Russia-India Relations
The Russian approach to the Asian collective security system implies close links between security and development as the two most important dimensions of the desirable future Asian order. Future security mechanisms should be complimented ...
... agencies, business and academia from both countries.
Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Academic Director; Ivan Timofeev, RIAC Director General, and Ranjan Mathai, former Indian Foreign Minister delivered welcoming remarks.
The speakers highlighted the progress of Russian-Indian trade in agriculture and the prospects for increased trade turnover in this field. The experts named high administrative barriers and customs duties, as well as long shipping as the most pressing challenges of Russian—Indian agricultural cooperation....
... quarters. Ivan Timofeev, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council discusses Russia’s perception of the conflict and peace efforts, its expectations from the BRICS Presidency and means of boosting commercial cooperation between India and Russia.
Gateway House
·
Unfolding Geopolitics, Episode 13 | Russia’s wartime diplomacy
... theory of international relations, offering a compelling alternative to Western approaches, particularly the one proposed in Samuel Huntington’s
The Clash of Civilizations
[Huntington 1993]. It informed the idea of trilateral cooperation between Russia, China and India, implemented by Primakov and later embodied in the BRICS group. By now, the idea of multipolarity has been recognized in global political science, has entered the conceptual framework and the language of international diplomacy and is used in Russia’s ...
