🇮🇳 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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📆 ANNOUNCEMENT: On July 9 at 11:00am Moscow Time, the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion on the results of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Russia.

The Indian Prime Minister's visit is his first official trip abroad following the country's elections. The agenda of the meeting between Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin touched on a wide range of issues affecting bilateral relations, as well as cooperation on multilateral platforms. These high-level negotiations are a signal that the particularly privileged strategic partnership between the two countries will be preserved and grow.

Moscow and Delhi are brought together by the desire to pursue an independent and sovereign political course, the identity of state-civilizations, and a similar vision of the world order as a multipolar area built on equal interaction between states.

❓How will the visit of the Indian Prime Minister affect the bilateral dialogue?
❓What answers can be given to India's concerns about strengthening ties between Russia and China?
❓How do US diplomatic efforts to build relations with India affect Russian-Indian ties?
❓How can we overcome the problems of mutual settlements and the threat of secondary sanctions?

Participants in the discussion will try to answer these and other questions.

🎙️ Speakers:

🇷🇺 Lidia Kulik, Head of India Studies, Skolkovo Institute for Emerging Markets Research

🇮🇳 Zorawar Daulet Singh, Visiting Fellow, Strategic Initiatives Forum

🇮🇳 Venkatesh Varma, Honorary Research Fellow, Vivekananda Foundation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Russia (2018–2021)

Moderator:

🗣 Ivan Timofeev, programme director of the Valdai Discussion Club

https://valdaiclub.com/events/announcements/valdai-club-to-discuss-results-of-narendra-modi-s-visit-to-russia/

Working languages: Russian, English.

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

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🎥 LIVE: at 11:00am Moscow Time, the Valdai Club will host an expert discussion on the results of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Russia.

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🗣 On July 9, 2024, the Valdai Discussion Club held an expert discussion on the results of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Russia.

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia and India on the Eve of a Multipolar World

On July 9, 2024, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion about the results of the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Russia.

💬 Moderator Ivan Timofeev emphasised that this was the first international visit of the Indian leader since he was re-elected. There have been no direct Russian-Indian summits for a long time; during this time, many important issues have accumulated and the need for a kind of synchronisation of watches has become urgent.

💬 Venkatesh Varma, Honorary Research Fellow of the Vivekananda Foundation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India to Russia (2018–2021), noted that relations between Russia and India are deeply rooted in the past. They have traditionally been strong, because the interests of the two countries largely coincide from a fundamental point of view. Now these relations are adapting to new international circumstances; new driving forces are appearing. The diplomat called for the development of interaction between the youth of the two countries and the exchange of ideas at the level of the academic community, noting that the new order should not “be based on an ideological system dominated by the West.” He lauded Modi's visit to Moscow as very successful and timely, suggesting that Russia and India will be able to find common grounds for building relations.

💬 Lydia Kulik, head of India studies at the Skolkovo Research Institute for Emerging Markets, indicated that before this week, the most recent visit of the Indian Prime Minister to Russia had taken place in 2019. Since then, there have been high level meetings, but the tradition of summits alternately held in Russia and India was broken. Since 2019, not only has the world changed, but the role of Russia and India in this world has increased significantly. In the emerging new world order, the role of Russia and India is difficult to overestimate, including in a conceptual sense. This makes direct dialogue between the leaders of the two countries especially significant. According to Kulik, India’s position in recent years is proof of the reliability of Russian-Indian relations. There is hope that as a result of the summit, a certain road map for the development of Russian-Indian cooperation will emerge.

💬 “This is the first meeting of the two leaders in the multipolar era,” said Zorawar Daulet Singh, a visiting fellow at the Forum for Strategic Initiatives. He added that a new world order is emerging. The balance of power in the world is changing, and Russia's determination and the sacrifices it makes at this difficult moment are very important. After the transition to multipolarity, multilateral institutions will play a stabilising role in Eurasia, and the international system will become fairer. Singh emphasised that India is interested in changing the infrastructure in Eurasia and welcomes the formation of a new system. India doesn't need a Cold War vision, and it doesn't accept Russia's isolation. The analyst added that he sees many opportunities for Russian-Indian cooperation to help achieve economic independence from the West.

https://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/russia-and-india-on-the-eve-of-a-multipolar-world/

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🇮🇳 On June 9, Mr. Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s Prime Minister for a third term in a grand ceremony at the presidential palace in Delhi.

At 73, Mr. Modi became only the second leader in the country’s history to win a third term, following in the footsteps of its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term balances continuity and change in India's foreign policy, emphasising strategic autonomy, regional stability, and deeper engagement with the Global South.

His "Neighbourhood First" policy, complex relations with China and Pakistan, and strengthened ties with Russia underscore India's commitment to a multipolar vision and a significant role in global governance, writes Rupal Mishra.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/charting-india-s-foreign-policy-course-challenges-/

🗣 The author is a participant of the Valdai - New Generation project.

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🇮🇳🇷🇺 Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Moscow, his first visit to Russia in five years, signifies the strategic importance India places in its relationship with Russia.

India-Russia relations have been characterised as a long-standing strategic partnership, built on shared interests and values, including their commitment to multilateralism and a multipolar world order.

This visit comes at a crucial time when India is perceived to be tilting towards the West, especially in the context of its foreign policy, which is aimed at counterbalancing China's influence. The visit underscores the multifaceted and evolving nature of India-Russia ties, which are pivotal for India's balanced foreign policy and strategic autonomy, writes Nivedita Das Kundu.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/strategic-significance-of-pm-modi-s-moscow-visit/

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🇮🇳🌏 India's vision for Eurasia focuses on promoting stability and peace, which are achievable through collaborative efforts to address common security threats and safeguard shared interests.

When considering India's engagement in greater Eurasia, it is vital to understand its four main priorities:

1️⃣ Promoting Multipolarity

India's approach to the world is greatly influenced by the concept of multipolarity, which underscores the need for a balanced distribution of power and influence among major global players. This perspective reflects India's commitment to a fair and inclusive global order that respects different nations’ diverse viewpoints and perspectives (especially the Global South).

2️⃣ Regional diplomacy

As an emerging economic and political actor in the Indian subcontinent, India plays a crucial role in shaping the geopolitical landscape of Greater Eurasia. With its longstanding relationships with the countries of Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia countries, India has been actively engaged in regional diplomacy to promote security, stability, and economic cooperation.

3️⃣ Pursuing Economic Opportunities

India is firmly committed to exploring economic opportunities throughout the wider Eurasian region. By identifying the potential for mutually beneficial partnerships and collaborations, India aims to leverage its growing economy and expanding market to further economic growth and development in the region.

4️⃣ Addressing Security Concerns

In today's interconnected world, addressing security challenges that transcend national borders is imperative. Regional and global cooperation are crucial in tackling these issues. India is dedicated to actively participating in security initiatives within the Greater Eurasia region.

India should prioritise strengthening its strategic partnerships with key players in the Eurasian region, including Russia and the Central Asian countries, writes Pravesh Kumar Gupta.

https://valdaiclub.com/a/highlights/priorities-for-international-cooperation/

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