India, Aug. 30 -- Post EAM Jaishankar's Moscow visit, Maria Zakharova, Russia's Director of the Information and Press Department at the Foreign Ministry, sits down for a tell-all on India's 'human-centric' BRICS approach, Moscow's push for de-dollarisation and why Russia says the shift is now 'imminent'.

Moscow rolled out the red carpet for External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar this week, but the real message was delivered inside the Kremlin. Jaishankar's meeting with President Vladimir Putin, where he carried a personal message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi, came as India and Russia look to push bilateral trade towards $100 billion, fix payment and market-access hurdles, and deepen cooperation in energy, fertilisers and nuclear po...