NEW DELHI: Geographically, India and Russia are similarly placed vis a vis Afghanistan: they don’t share a border with it but nevertheless, feel affected by developments there. India because it is always concerned about Pakistan’s activities in that country that abet terrorism against India. Russia because it shares borders with three former Central Asian satellite […]Read More
NEW DELHI: On ‘Talking Point‘, Ambassador P.S. Raghavan, Former Head of the National Security Advisory Board and an Ex-Envoy to Russia and Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Centre discuss Russia-India ties with StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. India’s External Affairs Minister(EAM) Dr S. Jaishankar after meeting his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov […]Read More
NEW DELHI: National security advisers tend to be low profile, it goes with the job. So when India’s NSA Ajit Doval met his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, not much emerged in the public sphere. One report said they discussed the situation in Afghanistan and the Indo-Pacific (Asia-Pacific to the Russians). There was […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and India’s External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar have discussed the whole gamut of ties, as the two countries wind up for the President Putin-Prime Minister Modi annual summit, which was postponed last year. The S-400 air defence system deal and the possibility of “additional” production of Russian […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has a full brief as he sits down in Moscow for talks with his counterpart Igor Morgulov on Wednesday and Thursday. Priority could be fixing dates for a Narendra Modi-Vladimir Putin summit. It could not be held last year owing to the pandemic but with vaccinations now […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The anti-government demonstrations in many cities all over Russia are just that, directed at a government that is seen to have failed in maintaining living standards and stabilizing prices, says Nandan Unnikrishnan, research scholar on Russia at the Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation. In an exclusive chat with StratNews Global, Unnikrishnan argues that the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Let the Biden administration publicly announce its plans but we don’t recognise unilateral sanctions, Russia’s Ambassador to India Nikolay R. Kudashev has said on the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) imposed on NATO member Turkey for purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile defence system. At a press briefing, the envoy said “India’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Russia’s 25-year deal for a Sudanese port on the Red Sea is a “great place to give historic ties with India a little more meat on the skeleton,” says Maxim A. Suchkov, Senior Fellow and Associate Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). This week, Russia announced an agreement to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Armenia and Azerbaijan are blaming each other for air and artillery attacks on each other’s forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region that began on the morning of September 27. As both of them have “rearmed with highly sophisticated military hardware over the last 15 years, they can strike at targets deep inside each […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Russia would like to avoid the lack of trust, stability between our separate, independent partners India and China,” says Roman Babushkin, the country’s Deputy Chief of Mission. “We’re happy they decided to use our platform (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Defence, Foreign Ministers meet in Moscow) to discuss their current issues and this is encouraging,” he […]Read More
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