{"id":32727,"date":"2018-10-29T16:09:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32727"},"modified":"2018-10-29T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:39:33","slug":"oldest-friends-india-and-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/oldest-friends-india-and-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest friends: India and Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/oldest-friends-india-and-russia\/article25150485.ece\">Oldest friends: India and Russia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>India needs strong commitment to deepen its engagement with Russia in coming years.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>India and Russia in a recent meet has announced various important agreements of geopolitical importance such as:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Including a $5.43 billion S-400 Triumf missile system<\/li>\n<li>Space cooperation arrangement to put an Indian in space<\/li>\n<li>Action plan for a new nuclear plant<\/li>\n<li>Attempt to diversify ties and increase bilateral trade in energy sector.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"3\">\n<li>Though the two <strong>sides didn\u2019t announce an agreement between ONGC Videsh and Gazprom<\/strong> as expected, several billions of dollars\u2019 worth of investment and energy deals have been finalised.<\/li>\n<li>However, significantly, the agreements discussed during Mr. Putin\u2019s visit have geopolitical implications and denotes India\u2019s desire to deepen defence cooperation with Russia<\/li>\n<li>Washington has already reacted to the S-400 deal under CAATSA, made it clear that waiver will not be on a <strong>\u201ccountry\u201d basis, but on a \u201ctransaction-by-transaction\u201d basis.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Accepting a waiver will implicitly commit India to reducing its intake of Russian military hardware.<\/li>\n<li>India has made it clear that it regards the US as an extremely important country with which it wants strong and deep ties. But this cannot come at the cost of India\u2019s sovereign foreign policy choice.<\/li>\n<li>It can be argued because of improvement in relations with China and strong ties with Russia, India has managed to keep more strategic space for itself which will help India to strike a better deal with U.S.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oldest friends: India and Russia News: India needs strong commitment to deepen its engagement with Russia in coming years. Important Facts: India and Russia in a recent meet has announced various important agreements of geopolitical importance such as: Including a $5.43 billion S-400 Triumf missile system Space cooperation arrangement to put an Indian in space&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/oldest-friends-india-and-russia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oldest friends: India and Russia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704956200},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}