⏰ TOMORROW, January 8, New Delhi will host the first Russia-India conference of the Valdai Club, organised jointly with the Club’s partner, the Vivekananda Foundation. 

The one-day programme will include an open discussion, a meeting with representatives of the National Security Advisory Council, an opening session and two thematic sessions, at which experts will discuss the following issues:

🔹 Trends in the transformation of the world order (multipolarity, regional and international security, sanctions);
🔹 Bilateral relations between Russia and India.

🎥 Watch the live broadcast of the public talk on our website tomorrow, on January 8, at 12:00 (Moscow time).

Working languages: English.

The link to the live broadcast of the open discussion will be posted on all online platforms of the Valdai Club: on the website, X (formerly Twitter), VKontakte, Telegram and Dzen.

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🎥 LIVE: at 12:00 (Moscow time) we are starting the live broadcast of the public talk “International Turbulence: Challenges and Opportunities for India-Russia relations.”

https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/live-talk-on-international-turbulence/

📍The discussion is organised within the framework of the first Valdai Club Russia-India conference in New Delhi, jointly with the Vivekananda Foundation. 

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🇮🇳 Arvind Gupta, Director of the Vivekananda Foundation, moderator of the discussion:

◽️ It’s very important that India and Russia continue to have engagement with each other amid the world’s turbulence and uncertainty.

◽️ India and Russia have a good level of partnership through several decades and it’s important that India and Russia continue to talk to each other.

🎥 Public talk “International Turbulence: Challenges and Opportunities for India-Russia relations”

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Denis Alipov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to India @MFARussia:

▪️ During the successful visit of the external affairs minister S. Jaishankar to Russia in late December, the priority of our countries’ strategic partnership was highlighted.

▪️ We began the new year on a high note with this brainstorming, first in a series of meetings on the top level.

▪️ Russia and India maintain steadfast bilateral relations and intensified bilateral dialogue. We stand likeminded in preserving the unbiased character of multilateral institutions based on genuine democracy in international relations.

▪️ There are many prospects and opportunities in Russia-India cooperation in many spheres: technology, digitalization, agriculture, logistics, finance, and others.

▪️ In such turbulent times, Russia-India relations remain multidimensional and based on mutual interests and trust.

🎥 Public talk “International Turbulence: Challenges and Opportunities for India-Russia relations”

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🇷🇺 Andrey Bystritskiy, Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club:

◽️ In the field of security, New Delhi and Moscow could raise questions in a new way about countering both new and traditional challenges. 

◽️ The new challenges include threats in the digital environment, which has emerged as a critical but at the same time vulnerable part of the national and global infrastructure.

◽️ Both countries have competencies in the field of IT and digital technology, and similar positions with respect to the regulation of global digital processes. 

◽️ Regarding traditional challenges, India and Russia, as two nuclear powers, could begin consultations on the parameters of international security in the nuclear field.

◽️ The voice of the Global South must be louder in defining the parameters for managing such risk. 

◽️ India and Russia are capable of achieving more successful implementation of climate change goals and the promotion of the environmental agenda.

◽️ India has done a lot in recent years to diversify energy sources, raise environmental standards, and improve the living environment of its citizens.

◽️ Russia has significant natural potential for reducing climate risks, as well as unique expertise, including climatic processes in the Arctic — the global “weather kitchen”.

◽️ New Delhi and Moscow are also interested in diversifying international financial transactions. The BRICS can and should become one of the most important tools for promoting common global goals.

◽️ The Russian presidency in 2024 provides us with a good opportunity to take stock of the organisation’s capabilities to advance the shared agenda. 

◽️ Moscow respects New Delhi’s impartial position on current conflict situations and India’s desire to contribute to their resolution.

🎥 Public talk “International Turbulence: Challenges and Opportunities for India-Russia relations”

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🇷🇺 Fyodor Lukyanov @ru_global, Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club:

▪️ This is a big day for the Valdai Club because the idea of launching something significant in India has been floated in our environments since quite a while.

▪️ Russia and India are two countries which play a very important role in the international system whatever they do. The very fact of India’s and Russia’s existence on the map is very important for other players.

▪️ Today’s world is changing profoundly. Four years ago, when the Covid-19 pandemic started, no-one could understand what it was. When people realized the scale, it became a turning point in the world development.

▪️ Liberal globalization that started in the 1980s and early 1990s, which seemed essential and historically objective, was switched off globally in March 2020.

▪️ The world didn’t collapse after that. The whole international system quickly started to adapt to this new situation. That was the beginning of a new era.

▪️ What happened later — including the military collision between Russia and the west in Ukraine, and what we see now in the Middle East, and many other local conflicts — was the continuation of the end of globalization as we knew it.

🎥 Public talk “International Turbulence: Challenges and Opportunities for India-Russia relations”

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🇷🇺 Fyodor Lukyanov @ru_global, Research Director of the Valdai Discussion Club:

▪️ Now we have a completely new situation which is absolutely vital to describe in order to identify the strategies of each particular power / country.

▪️ This is interconnection between all players on the globe, but it is not regulated by some institutions of some big powers as it was before. This is a new situation because most of us grew up in a very regulated international system.

▪️ The post-Cold war situation was based on the institutional arrangement, that helped countries to regulate their relationships.

▪️ Now all these institutions, including the UN and its Security Council, lose their efficiency.

▪️ It means that the international system comes back to the normal, because throughout history we saw unorganized and chaotic interaction between states.

▪️ The new order is pretty manageable but it requires much more responsibility from all players.

▪️ Now we see that more and more countries are becoming active on the international arena. We see that the most powerful countries like the United States, China, Russia or the EU see the limits of their capacities.

▪️ Russia and India are two countries that are best prepared to operate in this new world. Better than the United States and better than China. Resilience is the key.

▪️ Russia and India are now in the process of re-inventing themselves. We need to re-invent our mutual cooperation for better functioning in turbulent international relations.

🎥 Public talk “International Turbulence: Challenges and Opportunities for India-Russia relations”

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🇮🇳🌍 One of the key crises in the Middle East and world politics, the Palestinian-Israeli crisis, has seriously affected India’s plans.

Several factors have significantly influenced India’s activity in the region.

1️⃣ First, India’s greater role in the Middle Eastern affairs was welcomed by the United States. Since Washington and Islamabad were at odds, India was perfectly suited in this regard to compete with China and support the preservation of American interests in the region.

2️⃣ Second, India has its own vision of China’s growing role in Asia and can see the damage that China can cause to Indian interests. For India, the Middle East in this regard is an important element in countering Beijing’s plans for the Belt and Road project.

3️⃣ Third, India aims to develop economic ties with the region, other than its regular import of oil and gas from the Persian Gulf countries. India’s aim is to become a global hub for world trade (from Southeast Asia to the Middle East and Europe).

The Middle Eastern leaders do not consider India either as a potential counterweight to Washington or as a replacement for it; China is better suited for this role. Middle Eastern leaders are ready to develop their economic ties with India, but in spite of its size, India will not take the place of the United States, Russia, China or the EU, Ruslan Mamedov writes.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/silk-road-vs-spice-route-india-in-the-middle-east/

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