The rapid development of trade relations between Russia and the countries of the Global South, particularly India, entails the need for the development of transport infrastructure and the organization of new cargo delivery routes

Against the prevailing narrative of the The Belt and Road as a top-down strategy to spread China’s geopolitical influence, there is the BRI’s impact through its first decade as emanating «from the middle out and bottom up» via transport-enabled corridors traversing a large number of regions within and across national territories.