On August 17, India launched public consultations regarding the draft rules for its landmark SHANTI Act, a framework enacted last year to trigger a historic transformation in the nation's nuclear sector.  This regulatory revolution dismantles a 60-year state monopoly to help achieve a bold target of 100 GW by 2047. By opening the industry to private capital and overhauling restrictive supplier liability laws, the new framework completely rewrites the rules for global players. We spoke with Dr. Shah Nawaz Ahmad, Senior Advisor at the World Nuclear Association, to analyze how these changes will transform Indian nuclear future. [...]

On March 23, 2026, Russia and Vietnam signed an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Ninh Thuan 1 nuclear power plant (NPP) with two VVER-1200 power units with a combined capacity of 2,400 MW, according to the Russian project. This topic has already been covered in a PIR Center analytical note by Danil Khryapin, a specialist in Indonesia and Southeast Asian countries, titled “The revival of Russia’s Ninh Thuan 1 NPP project in Vietnam: a step towards developing Rosatom’s presence in Southeast Asia”. [...]

Africa is rapidly redefining its place in the global economy, shifting from a peripheral region to an emerging hub of high-tech growth. Advances in cybersecurity, space research, and biotechnology are shaping the continent’s new technological agenda, while intensifying competition among external actors. In this context, Russia’s role as a partner in Africa’s high-tech transformation deserves closer attention. [....]

The key element of the trip was an immersion in the country’s energy sector, and specifically its nuclear dimension. The Embassy staff helped me to verify many of the assumptions and hypotheses I had formed earlier concerning Zambia’s readiness to undertake its first nuclear power project, and they also directed me to information resources in which I was able to find everything required to prepare this short article. [...]