Venue: Seminar Hall 1 (2nd Floor), IDSA

The conference is being organized in the backdrop of the special edition of IDSA journal ‘Strategic Analysis’, entitled ‘Russia in Global Affairs’. Several leading Russian policy experts have contributed to the special edition, offering a comprehensive view on the structure of the new international order, major international tendencies and problems, and Russia’s place in this system.

The articles discuss Russia’s approaches to international security, new factors of influence in the modern world, Russia and the system of global governance, Russia and the new economic order, Russia’s role in Eurasian integration and its policy of pivot to Asia within the context of similar policies by other major international players.

It is in this context that the conference aims at ​ deliberating on above themes and exploring areas of future cooperation between India and Russia.

Programme

10-1030h: Registration & Tea

1030-1100h: Inaugural Session

Welcome Remarks by Shri Jayant Prasad, Director General, IDSA

Inaugural address by Ambassador Alexander M. Kadakin [tbc]

Address by Dr. Alexander Lukin, Director, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies at Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Foreign Ministry (MGIMO University)

1100-1300h: Session I: International Situation: Emerging Global Order

Chair: Professor MadhavanPalat
Dmitry Suslov, Deputy Director, Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

US–Russia Confrontation and a New Global Balance

Andrei Skriba, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Associate Research Fellow at the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Russian Strategy towards the Post-Soviet Space in Europe: Searching for Balance between Economy, Security, and Great Power Attractiveness

Maxim Bratersky, Professor, Department of International Relations, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

The Evolution of National Security Thinking in Post-Soviet Russia

Nandan Unnikrishnan, Vice President and Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi.

1300-1400h: Lunch

1400-1545h: Session II: Regional Situation: Greater Eurasia

Chair: Ambassador Ajai Malhotra

Alexander Lukin, Director, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Studies at Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Foreign Ministry (MGIMO University)

Russia’s Pivot to Asia: Myth or Reality?

Mark Entin, Professor, Department of European Law at Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Foreign Ministry (MGIMO University), former Russian Ambassador to Luxemburg.

The New Role of Russia in the Greater Eurasia

Meena Singh Roy, Research Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.

Analysing Connectivity Projects in Eurasia: “The New Integration Game”

1545-1600h: Tea

1600-1730h: Session III: India-Russia Relations: Strengthening the Economic Foundation

Chair:Dr. Alexander Lukin

Phunchok Stobdan, Senior Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses.

Changing Nature of Indo-Russian Relations

Leonid Grigoryev, Head, Department of World Economy, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Former Deputy Minister of Economics and Finances.

Russia in the System of Global Economic Relations

Arun Mohanty, Professor, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Reflections on Indo-Russian Trade and Investment

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