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INDIA AND RUSSIA: TOWARDS NEW STRATEGIC RELATIONS
Abhijit Ghosh
Vladimir Putin’s four-day visit to India in the first week of October 2000 has led to dramatic changes in Indo-Russian relations, with the two countries signing a declaration of strategic partnership and a host of bilateral agreements underlining the common national and geo-political interests and rejuvenating the once-close political, economic and military cooperation between them. Relations between New Delhi and Moscow had never reached such heights in the post-Soviet years as they have since Putin’s first trip to India. This has essentially demonstrated the Russian bid to restore old ties and build a new strategic relationship by seeking to revive the arms-transfer cooperation. ...
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