Subhechcha Ganguly 
According to sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin will likely speak on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. For the summit, the prime minister will travel to Samarkand on Thursday night. President Putin and Prime Minister Modi will discuss Russian-Indian cooperation within the UN and G20 during the SCO meeting, according to Russian Presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, who spoke to reporters.
Ushakov said, according to the Russian news agency TASS, “a conversation on international agenda will also take place; the parties will discuss issues of strategic stability, the situation in the Asia Pacific Region, and, of course, cooperation within major multilateral formats, such as the UN, the G20, and the SCO.”
This is crucial, he said, because India will chair the G20 and lead the SCO in 2023. India will also preside over the UN Security Council in December. The two leaders spoke on July 1 and discussed how the decisions made during President Putin’s visit to India in December 2021 had been carried out.
