Question
Analyse India's changing relationship with post Communist Russia.

Answer

India has maintained good relations with all the erstwhile socialist countries but most cordial relation sare still those between Russia and India.
  1. Embedded in the history-trust and common interests.
  2. Both share vision of multipolar world, collective security, greater regionalism, negotiated settlements of international conflicts, an independent foreign policy for all countries etc.
  3. Democratisation and empowerment of bodies like the U.N.
  4. More than 80 bilateral agreements have been entered into.
  5. India benefits on issues like Kashmir issue, energy supplies, sharing information, access to central Asia, balancing the relation with China.
  6. Russia benefits-India is second largest arms market for Russia, most Army-hardware from Russia, help during oil crisis, energy imports etc.

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