India-Russia relation is tried and tested: Anuradha Chenoy

India-Russia ties have weathered every challenge and will continue to be strong, says Chenoy

Anuradha Chenoy, professor, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and former director and chairperson, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, tells Aditi Phadnis India-Russia ties have weathered every challenge and will continue to be strong.

Beginning this month, India and Russia are celebrating 70 years of diplomatic relations. Could you review the 70 years for us?

Seventy years of history of diplomatic relations between India-Soviet/Russia establish  the privileged and special partnership that covers strategic, defence, economic, cultural and people-to-people relation between the two countries. For both countries it is a model bilateral relationship. There is an underlying consensus across the