Aleksei Zakharov is a Fellow with ORF’s Strategic Studies Programme. His research focuses on the geopolitics and geo-economics of Eurasia and the Indo-Pacific, with particular emphasis on Russia’s foreign policy towards South Asia and India-Russia relations.
Previously, Aleksei was a Post-doctoral Fellow at HSE University, Moscow, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also was a Visiting Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Gateway House, the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), and the French Institute of Geopolitics at the University of Paris 8.
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Commentaries
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Dec 15, 2025What the Optics of a Visit Can’t Hide: India-Russia Relationship Is Paradoxical and Stagnant
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Dec 03, 2025What to Expect from Vladimir Putin’s India Visit
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Dec 03, 2025A Defence Link That Lasts: India and Russia In An Evolving Global Order
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Sep 19, 2025A Recipe for Friendship: How India-Russia Relations Stay Strong Despite the Headwinds
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Sep 16, 2025The Phantom of RIC Trilateral
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Aug 21, 2025Despite Trump’s Shuttle Diplomacy, a Protracted War Is Likely to Drag On in Ukraine
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Jul 28, 2025Understanding Russia’s Taliban gauntlet
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May 16, 2025Can India rely on Russia to diplomatically isolate Pakistan? It seems unlikely