‘India-Russia: Rethinking, Readjusting, Reasserting, Raising Relations’

NEW DELHI: Ambassador P.S. Raghavan, the Former Chairperson of India’s National Security Advisory Board and Ex-Envoy to Russia, Dr Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Centre and Dr. Anna Kireeva, Associate Professor, Department of Oriental Studies at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations(MGIMO University) in discussion with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi.

The panel discusses the special and privileged strategic partnership, the first India-Russia annual summit in two years between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin, Putin’s first bilateral visit (his second abroad) since the pandemic, the inaugural two plus two dialogue between the Foreign and Defence Ministers of both countries, Dr S Jaishankar, Rajnath Singh, Sergey Lavrov and Sergey Shoigu, the S-400 missile system, possible U.S. CAATSA sanctions, China relations, the deal to manufacture 6 lakh AK-203 rifles under a joint venture in Amethi worth over Rs 5000 crore, agreements in defence logistics, oil and space, positions on the Indian Ocean, Indo-Pacific, Asia-Pacific region, and the confrontation between Russia and the West over Ukraine and Belarus.