India-UAE Partnership Unfolding Opportunities
India – UAE Partnership: Unfolding Opportunities – 11 May 2022 A fruitful interaction with H.E. Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, UAE Minister of Economy; H.E. Dr. Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, UAE Minister of State for Entrepreneurship & SMEs; H.E. Dr. Ahmed Albanna, UAE Ambassador to India was held on emerging avenues of cooperation and opportunities […]
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Russia Review | May 2020
Overview • Russia’s Covid-19 challenges mount• Mixed signals in US-Russia relations• Libyan setback, Syrian kerfuffle• Snippets: Putin’s ratings decline, Russia’s MFA on India-Pakistan Russia’s Covid-19 challenge grows Russia rapidly climbed up the global Covid-19 ladder in May, reaching third place globally (it was briefly in second place, till Brazil rapidly overtook it), with over 400,000 […]
The India-Japan Forum
UPCOMING EVENT: 28-29 July 2023 ABOUT THE FORUM The India-Japan Forum convened in partnership with the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India is a unique, one of its kind, closed door gathering with limited participation by invitation only. Eminent, handpicked representatives of both governments, parliament, industry, think tanks and academia gather at the Forum […]
Russia Review | June 2020
Russia-US: telephone talk, bilateral talks, “foreign hand” & Afghan “bounty” The month started on an upbeat note for US-Russia relations, with a telephone call to President Putin from President Trump, in which (as per the Kremlin readout) the Russian President thanked his US counterpart for the timely donation of ventilators, the two Presidents congratulated themselves […]
Russia Review | April 2020
Overview • Covid-19 grips Russia• “Covidiplomacy” yields dividends• Trump’s “teleshuttle” mediation defused Russia-Saudi oil spat• Snippets: Russian PM gets Covid, Russians return from India, Putin’s full plate Covid-19 gathers force Russia’s Covid-19 cases shot up from under 2000 in end-March to over 110,000 a month later, with about 1200 deaths, up from just 9. It […]
Russia Review | March 2020
Overview Russia’s Coronavirus campaign Foundations laid for Putin Mark V & VI Russia-Saudi oil spat aggravated Covid impact on energy markets Snippets: Covid diplomacy, Idlib peace, Putin-Modi telecon Russia combats CoronavirusAfter relatively low incidence of detected Covid-19 cases in the first half of March, Russia announced a spike on March 24 (with 163 new […]
Russia Review | February 2020
Overview Russia-Turkey “marriage of convenience” on the rocksRussia endorses US-Taliban dealSnippets: US-Central Asia, Ukraine backtracking, coronavirus frictions Mutual recriminations replaced Russia-Turkey understanding on Idlib The delicate balance between Russian and Turkish interests in Syria was destroyed in February, as Syrian troops (reportedly reinforced by Iran-backed militants) used Russian air cover to launch an all-out attack […]