"OUR RELATIONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN EQUAL, UNINTERRUPTED AND MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL, BUILT ON TRUST, RESPECT AND NATIONAL INTERESTS"

The year 2025 has been exceptionally eventful for the growing Russia-India ties amid the 25th anniversary of our bilateral strategic partnership and the 15th anniversary of its elevation to a special and privileged beneficial, built on trust, respect and national interests, has become a stabilizing factor in international affairs. Such exemplary nature of bilateral engagement is in increasing demand as the world navigates an era of unprecedented turbulence.

- Denis Alipov

In view of the evolving multipolarity, we pro-actively coordinated our efforts with other like-minded partners to accelerate the reform of the global governance to account for a new role of the Global South in the world's economy and politics. In this context, the profile of promising platforms such as BRICS and the SCO, which offer depoliticized pragmatic cooperation and help to reduce external dependencies, was naturally growing. We look forward to the Indian presidency in BRICS in 2026 to further promote its consensus-based dialogue structured in three baskets-policy and security, economy and finance as well as cultural and humanitarian ties. The extraordinary BRICS Summit on September 8, which contributed to promoting a transparent and efficient global trade environment, was a testimony to the potential of a coordinated response to common challenges.

The 25th SCO Summit in China was remarkable as a turning point in regional politics. It witnessed a very warm and constructive atmosphere as well as the commitment to deeper interaction in Eurasia. It widely corresponds with a flagship Russian initiative on building a Great Eurasian Partnership for the equal benefit of all countries and their associations. Important bilateral meetings on the sidelines between President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping sowed promising expectation for the resumption of Russia-India-China trilateral dialogue, which is expected to deepen trust and reach better understanding of mutual concerns, and, therefore, to make Eurasia more stable and prosperous.