Russia-U.S. Relations; ‘Catching A Falling Knife’ And What The Summit Means For The World

NEW DELHI: “The U.S.-Russia relationship is like a falling knife and we need to catch it,” Kirill Dmitriev, the CEO of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund RDIF, told CNBC recently. On ‘Talking Point’, Dr. Anna Kireeva, Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and African Studies, Research Fellow at the Centre for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University), the MFA of Russia and Ambassador Asoke Mukerji who opened India’s first embassies in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan in 1992 and retired as India’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 2015 discuss the Putin-Biden Summit, the low expectations set, agreements, disagreements and what it means especially for the Russia-India, Russia-China and U.S.-India partnerships. The panellists are in conversation with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi.