Valdai Club on the road in India “International Turbulence: Challenges and Opportunities for India-Russia relations”

Approximately 2 years ago Mr Putin made a comment at a Valdai Club discussion to the effect that Valdai should create a multinational profile and Valdai should go on the road. For anyone watching carefully, just recently Dr S Jaishankar visited Moscow to high praise from all parties. A part of Valdai is in India, gluing the relationship.

BRICS is not only doing trade in local currencies and dropping SWIFT out of the plan, they are also connecting their thinktanks

“The first Valdai Club Russia-India conference, organised jointly with the Club’s partner, the Vivekananda Foundation, was held on January 8 in New Delhi.

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

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

The Vivekananda International Foundation is a New Delhi-based think tank which was established by leading Indian security experts, diplomats and philanthropists. Its goal is to develop innovative approaches to India’s security and welfare that will enable it to play a worthy role in global affairs.”

The first presentation is very valuable, more so for the fact that we always have somewhat of a suspicious attitude towards India.

Fyodor Lukyanov (http://valdaiclub.com/about/experts/338/) @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.