Interview with Dr Jawahar Vishnu Bhagwat
The development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) is currently one of Russia’s key strategic projects for the Arctic region. Given its scale and significance, developing the NSR also requires expanding international cooperation and participation in the project. Russia has been actively attracting Indian partners to find ...
... aiming to gain from increased trade turnover between Europe and Asia. Therefore, cooperation in the development of transport routes and infrastructure projects would mutually be beneficial for both countries, both economically and strategically. Two transport routes should be highlighted here, (a) the Vladivostok-Chennai maritime transport corridor, a waterway through the Strait of Malacca to the Russian Far East, and (b) the North-South International Transport Corridor, a 7,200-km transport network connecting Nhava Sheva in India with Bender Abbas in Iran by sea and further linking Amirabad in Iran by road. The last section connects Amirabad ...