 Hello, this is Jagannath Ponda. I am heading the Stockholm Center for South Asian and Indo-Pacific Affairs at the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Sweden. I'm here visiting USIP as a part of my research project on Russia-China-India trilateral dynamics in Eurasia. I think Russia always wanted to have a partnership in the Eurasian regions after the Cold War. In fact, if we study the Russian foreign policy approach after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, they wanted some regional partnerships, strong regional partnership, and there was no better partners than India and China for Russia. And therefore, if we see the Russian foreign policy current approach, they do not want to lose out these two effective powers emerging economies in the world politics from their foreign policy point of view and from their strategic interest in the global affairs, particularly in the context of Eurasia. Well, Russia needs today India and China more than what India and China needs Russia. In fact, if we see Russia is getting more and more isolated in the global politics today, there is a lot of sanctions Russia is facing because the kind of attack they have carried out on Ukraine because of the war. And today, I think Russia's influence in the global multilateral forums has also significantly reduced. So therefore, they need China and India more and more in the regional politics. But at the same time, Russia do not want to really allow China and India to come closer. So therefore, Russia is playing as a kind of balancer between China and India and when it comes to the Eurasian politics, Russia wants to build that Eurasian chemistry between taking along China and India into its fold. So therefore, we do see that Russia holds a lot of significance to Russia and China, to Shanghai Cooperation Organization, to AIIB and to the new development bank of the BRICS. I think a lot is happening in the Eurasian regions where Russia would be actually revitalizing its foreign policy with cohesion of its relationship, particularly with China and the Central Asian countries. In fact, the Russians are seeing China as an inevitable partner and they have declared their partnerships as no-limit partnerships, having a kind of a no-limit to their friendship in the regions and to that extent, I think it holds a significant implications for the United States of America, which has not really given adequate importance to the region of Eurasia. And therefore, US needs to look at some of these institutions, multilateral forums Russia is a member, along with China and India very closely, particularly from US point of view, I think the institutions like Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Asian infrastructure investment bank, the new development bank of the BRICS and particularly also the trilateral forums Russia, India, China holds enormous significance because that helps Russia to build an Eurasian chemistry, a strong Eurasian chemistry, which is against the US and which is against the United States interest in the Indo-Pacific region.