India-Russia Relations

In addition to their alternative vision on political issues, the RIC Foreign Ministers’ meet is gradually expanding trilateral cooperation in several sectors, including disaster relief, agriculture and public health.

• Swaran Singh
• April 19, 2012
• IDSA Comments

Given the legacy of defence cooperation and ongoing projects, Russia will remain for the foreseeable future India’s major defence partner.

• Amit Kumar
• July 29, 2011
• IDSA Comments

The Summit was part of Russia’s ongoing initiatives to play a greater role in stabilising the region before the expected withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.

• Smita Purushottam
• May 23, 2011
• IDSA Comments

Russia is one country that India cannot afford to sideline, as it is the only trusted partner with whom India has mutual compatibility and a close political, military and economic partnership for decades.

• Pallavi Pal
• December 20, 2010
• IDSA Comments

India and Russia should look at a hi-tech partnership for the 21st century in new areas of the civilian economy.

• Smita Purushottam
• December 20, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The Skolkova initiative is part of Russia’s attempt to develop a robust national innovation system and a knowledge based economy.

• Rajorshi Roy
• November 26, 2010
• IDSA Comments

The importance of the RIC trilateral initiative lies in the fact that India, Russia and China, as countries with growing international influence, can make substantive contributions to global peace, security and stability.

• R N Das
• November 15, 2010
• IDSA Comments

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to India on March 11–12, 2010 signifies the beginning of a new phase in Indo-Russian friendship. In fact, this visit needs to be viewed in the context of the changing geopolitical and geo-economic realities in the international system.

• Meena Singh Roy
• July 2010
• Strategic Analysis

The outcome of the deliberations at the September 1 Extraordinary European Council meeting held to discuss the Russian-Georgian conflict was not very dramatic. Gordon Brown penned a scathing article in The Observer and attempted to set a high pitch for the meeting by presenting the conflict as ‘naked aggression’ by Russia and advocating that the EU review ‘root and branch’ its relationship with Russia.

• Alok Rashmi Mukhopadhyay
• September 10, 2008
• IDSA Comments

The recent meeting of the Indo-Russian Business Co-operation Council and the Trade and Investment Forum in New Delhi was significant, in that it took place after the recent summit-level talks between the two countries. This symbolises the fact that both countries assign considerable value to increasing bilateral trade and economic co-operation.

• Nivedita Das Kundu
• March 07, 2007
• IDSA Comments