"We are more [focused] on people-to-people relations. That's what we push," Manpreet Singh, President, Indian Chamber of International Business told Sputnik on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).
Manpreet Singh also commented on how India and Russia can diversify their trade relationship and whether we could see Indian retail stores all across Russia in some years’ time.
On the first day of the forum, Igor Piasetskii, the honourary representative of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation (CCI RF) in India, told Sputnik that there is “demand” in the market on account of surging India-Russia business ties as well the exit of western companies from Russian in the wake of G-7 sanctions against Moscow.