India Russia Relation

Russia has been one of India's key suppliers of arms and ammunition

For 50 years, India kept irritating the US by wooing USSR and also not missing out on any opportunity to criticise America and American policies on every conceivable forum

The Indian unit of the France-based International Human Rights Defence Committee was launched on the occasion.

Executives of Indian companies met senior Russian officials, and Leonid Petukhov, CEO, Far East Investment and Export Agency in the presence of Union Petroleum and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan

India announced its intention to acquire S-400 'Triumf' surface-to-air missile systems in 2015. The contract worth USD 5.43 billion was signed during the visit of President Putin to India last year

President Putin reiterated the invitation to Modi to visit Moscow to participate in the Victory Day celebrations next year, which the prime minister gladly accepted

Even after two decades of closer ties with the US, India has not got all what it wanted, says Chenoy

Modi, in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, also unveiled the 'Act Far East' policy to boost India's engagement with Russia's Far East region

Apart from better bilateral ties at the expense of China, Modi will probably seek from Putin support for his new Kashmir policy

$12 billion of Make In India projects in hand, Moscow eyeing $25 billion more

As of end-2018, trade between the two countries stood at $30 billion

The bilateral trade grew by 21 per cent to $9.3 billion in 2017 as against $7.7 billion in the previous year

The key areas of Russian investments have been oil and gas, defence equipment supplies, power and large-scale infrastructure project

Defence purchases must always form part of the larger strategic relationships and not treated as something of a "stand-alone" as we have tended to do in the past

On October 5, the RDIF, Russia's PhosAgro and Indian Potash Ltd inked a pact for investments in production of mineral fertilisers in both countries

Prasad said India is pushing its digital economy to touch $1 trillion mark in coming 3-4 years, leading to opportunities in areas like IT, e-commerce, communications and electronics manufacturing

He is slated to discuss a number of key regional and global topics with India, including the US sanctions on Iranian oil

The CAATSA was the result of Russian behaviour, not Indian, Schriver said

India and Russia had signed an inter-governmental agreement for the mega project in 2007, vowing to take the military ties between the two strategic partners to the next level