Question
Analyse India's changing relationship with post-Communist Russia.
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Answer
India has maintained good relations with all the respective socialist countries but most cordial relations are still there between Russia and India.
- Embedded in the history, trust and common interests.
- Both share vision of multipolar world, collective security, greater regionalism, negotiated settlements of international conflicts, an independent foreign policy for all countries etc.
- Democratisation and empowerment of bodies like the U.N.
- More than 80 bilateral agreements have been signed between India and Russia as part of the Indo-Russian strategic Agreement of 2001.
- India benefits on issues like Kashmir issue, energy supplies, sharing information, access to central Asia balancing the relation with China.
- India is second largest arms market for Russia.
- Russia is important to India and has repeatedly come to the assistance of India during its oil crisis.
- Russia is important for Indian nuclear energy plans and it assisted India's space industry also.
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