Some Latest Update on Russia Relation With Brazil.

1. RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY FOR BRAZIL
(2016 TO 2021)
Presented By-
1] Gajjar Meet
2] Maurya Siddharth
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2. Topics of presentation
1. Geography and Historical Relations of Both Countries
2. Foreign Relations
3. Economic Relations
4. Defense Relations
5. COVID-19 Developments
6. References
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3. Geography and
Historical Relations
of Both Countries
“Everything has to do with geography.”
-Judy Martz
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4. Location
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5. Introduction
▪ Russia’s rank in area is 1st (1,70,98,246 Km square) largest in the world and
Brazil’s 5th (85,14,767 Km square) largest in World.
▪ Russia’s population rank is 9th (146.7million)in the world and Brazil’s population
rank is 6th (210million)in the world.
▪ Russia’s official language is Russian and Brazil’s official language is Portuguese.
▪ In Russia major people follow Christianity and In Brazil also major people follow
Christianity.
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6. Glance at History
▪ Russia and Brazil saw each-other as faraway overseas lands but in the Soviet
period (November 1917-December 1991) a few thousand Russians went to
Brazil and most of them never back to The USSR.
▪ Even fewer Brazilians visited Russia, majority of them were communists
(Zobolotsky 2007).
▪ Few are students at the International Lenin’s School, all came to Moscow
with false documents but not as part on independent trip, they were sent by
the Communist Party of Brazil (Jeifets 2016).
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7. Glance at History
▪ The diplomatic relations between Russia and Brazil were first established in
1945, at the end of World War 2. Then relations broken in 1947 and finally re-
established in 1961. Since then till now day both have stable relationship.
▪ From 1963 several agreements and protocols on bilateral trade were singed
it’s miracle for Brazilian economy and beneficial for strengthening of Russian
Brazilian Relations.
▪ But both did not developed a relation in systematic way.
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8. Foreign Relations
“Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.”
-Hubert H. Humphrey
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9. Post-Soviet Russia
▪ In 1990s the Post-Soviet Russian Federation was far from the first league of
Brazil’s partners in the world. Russia mostly imports Sugar, Coffee, Tobacco
and Meat from Brazil.
▪ Russia took part at FIFA World Cup in Brazil at 2014.
▪ On August 31, 2016, the Brazilian Senate voted to convict Rousseff, the Vice
President of Brazil , she was accused of illegally manipulating Brazil’s federal
budget.
(Video Link- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7naTv2s69Ow )
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10. New Era of Brazil
▪ After impeachment of Rousseff, the Vice President of Brazil Michel Temer became
new President of Brazil.
▪ In May 2017, Brazil applied for joining the Organization for Economic Co-Operation
and Development (OECD).
▪ The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an
international organisation that works to build better policies for better lives. Our goal
is to shape policies that foster prosperity, equality, opportunity and well-being for all.
We draw on 60 years of experience and insights to better prepare the world of
tomorrow.(Headquarters: Paris, Established In 1961)
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11. New Era of Brazil
▪ Brazilian president Michel Temer visited Russia in June 2017,
purpose of the visit was “to encourage Russian investors to invest in
various sectors of the Brazilian economy. He said that there were
over fifty sectors including Energy, Oil and Gas which potentially
could be of economic interest to Russia.”
▪ Now decline in Bilateral relations began to repair in 2017.
▪ (Video Link-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=argsGooZbeU)
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12. Doping Allegation on
Russia
▪ In 2014, 800m runner Yulla Stepanova and her husband Vitaly, a former employee of the
Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA).
▪ Appeared in a German documentary and lifted the lid on what was later described as
one of the most “sophisticated doping programmers” in sports history.
▪ After two-year Former head of RUSADA Grigory Told The New York Times that Russia ran
a carefully planned, state-sponsored doping scheme.
▪ After all this allegations Russia’s anti-doping lab was suspended in 2015.
▪ After primary investigation, the International Olympic Committee(IOC) removed 111
Athletes from 389 member contingent for the Rio Olympic (2016) then IOC suggested
complete ban on Russia participation in 2018 Winter Olympics at South Korea.
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13. Doping Scam of Russia
▪ In December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned
Russia for four years from competing in international events.
▪ In 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) reduced the initial
ban of four years to two years.
▪ (Video Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxHZXqH_rN4)
▪ (Netflix Documentary: Icarus -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXoRdSTrR-4 )
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14. Presidential Election of
2018
▪ In 2018 Presidential Election took place in both states.
▪ In Russia Vladimir Putin once again won the elections in Russia and
he may remain as the President till 2036.
▪ (Video link- https://youtu.be/mfX-Ks09QLg )
▪ In Brazil Jair Bolsonaro won election and became new President of
Brazil.
▪ (Video link - https://youtu.be/ikeBo245zGo )
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15. Newly Elected
Presidents (2018)
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16. Economic
Relations
“A strong economy is the source of national strength.”
-Yoshihide Suga
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17. Bilateral Economic Trade
▪ Russia’s major trading partner is Brazil in Latin America they both do import
and export of agricultural products, certain kinds of raw materials and
consumption goods.
▪ In 2017, Brazil produced about 90% of pork and one-third of beef exported to
Russia, as Russian Embargo in 2014 on European and North America meat
imports. 40% of Brazil pork and 11% of beef Brazil exports to Russia. There
agricultural trade was US$10 billion
▪ In December 2017, Russia imposed ban on Frozen meat of Brazil because
they see growth of banned stimulator “Ractopamine”.
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18. Ractopamine
▪ Russia banned food import from the
West in retaliation to sanctions over
the Ukrainian crisis.
▪ Russia is one among the 160 States
who banned the use of
Ractopamine. (Video Link-
https://youtu.be/TQDonQ5zxR0 )
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19. A picture is worth
a thousand words
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20. Brazil’s Export to Russia
(till 2019)
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No Product Money
1 Oil seeds, oleaginous fruits, grain, seed, fruits US$527.58 million
2 Vehicles other than railway, tramway US$369.17 million
3 Meat and edible meat offal US$138.20 million
4 Miscellaneous edible preparations US$81.60 million
5 Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes US$79.27 million
6 Sugars and sugar confectionery US$73.99 million
7 Inorganic chemicals, precious metal compound,
isotope
US$73.23 million
8 Coffee, tea, mate and spaces US$68.18 million
9 Machinery, nuclear reactors US$65.43 million
10 Iron and steel US$49.54 million

21. Brazil’s Imports from
Russia (till 2019)
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No Product Money
1 Fertilizers US$1.90 billion
2 Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products US$660.81 million
3 Aluminum US$301.39 million
4 Salt, sulfur, earth, stone, plaster, lime and cement US$94.79 million
5 Pearls, precious stones, metals, coins US$93.36 million
6 Rubbers US$86.74 million
7 Iron and steel US$79.95 million
8 Nickel US$26.83 million
9 Electrical, electronic equipment US$25.08 million

22. Automobiles Industry
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23. Automobiles Industry
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24. Space Cooperation
▪ Russian space agency-Roscosmos and Brazil’s space agency-Brazilian Space Agency -
Agência Espacial Brasileira (AEB) signed agreement to monitor space debris.
▪ They set up a telescope at Pico dos Dias in brazil. Russia did $2.7 million investment
and Brazil covered its operating coast.(07 February 2017)
▪ Roscosmos will place GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System) monitoring
station in Brazil. (https://www.glonass-iac.ru/en/about_glonass/ )
▪ GLONASS is alternative of GPS (Global Positioning System).
▪ Russia launched 38 foreign satellites from 18 countries on March 22,2021 in Soyuz-2
1a launch vehicle.
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25. Telescope at Brazil
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26. GLONASS
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27. Defense Relations
“In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk;
bravery is a rampart of defence.”
-Sallust
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28. Defense Cooperation
▪ Brazil received a set of Russian Missile System IGLA-S. It is short range missile
also known as man-portable air defence system(on 27 January 2016).
▪ These were delivered to anti-aircraft artillery units across the country.
▪ It can be used in both urban areas and in areas like Amazon Forest.
▪ It is compatible with Radars such as SABER M-60 and BRADAR.
▪ (Video link - https://youtu.be/nxmUA_1SWmY )
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29. IGLA-S
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30. RADAR System
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31. COVID-19
Developments
“With everything going on with COVID, you don't know
what's going to happen.”
-Demetrius Andrade
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32. Sputnik V Vaccines
▪ Brazil has approved Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine for import and
emergency use in several states.
▪ Brazil reversed its April decision to ban imports of Sputnik V
vaccine.
▪ Peer reviewed research published in The Lancet in January,
said Sputnik V is safe and 91.8% effective against the COVID-
19 virus.
(Video Link- https://youtu.be/epWLTmRqZFI )
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33. Topics of presentation
▪ Here you have a list of items
▪ And some text
▪ But remember not to overload your slides with
content
Your audience will listen to you or read the
content, but won’t do both.
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34. References
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35. References
▪ https://tradingeconomics.com/brazil/exports-to-russia
▪ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268575069_Brazil_and_Russia_Si
milarities_and_Differences_of_the_Development_Trajectories
▪ https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-
Archives/Mar-Apr-2019/128-Russia-LATAM/
▪ https://www.drovers.com/news/industry/russia-restricts-brazil-beef-imports-
after-mad-cow-cases
▪ https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_Permanent_Mission_in_Russia/Federal_
Space_Agency
▪ https://www.iafastro.org/membership/all-members/brazilian-space-agency-
aeb.html
▪ https://russiancouncil.ru/en/analytics-and-comments/analytics/three-
horizons-of-brazil-russia-relations/
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36. THANKS!
Any questions?
You can find us at meet.gma20@sls.pdpu.ac.in &
siddharth.mma20@sls.pdpu.ac.in
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