The Ukraine issue figured prominently at the annual summit talks between the two leaders that is aimed at further shoring up a nearly eight-decade bilateral partnership that remained on firm footing notwithstanding the fractious geopolitical environment and tensions.
The India-Eurasian Economic Union FTA is an ambitious undertaking which aims to expand trade ties further.
The visit, on an invitation by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, also comes at a time of heightened tensions between Russia and the West following the Crocus City Hall terror attacks near Moscow which has killed at least 140 and injured many more.
Kuleba told Indian media Thursday that he wanted to discuss Ukraine’s peace formula while in New Delhi, and encourage India to play a bigger role in helping end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Both countries are also sharing technologies and Russia is working towards improving the after-sales service system for which an advanced legal base has been developed.
Svetlana Ryzhakova is no newcomer to India. An ethnographer and a cultural anthropologist, she is a leading research fellow at the Centre of Asian and Pacific Studies in the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences. Fluently speaking English and other languages, she is one of the foremost Indologists in Russia today. Proficient in Kathak, she also runs an Indian Anthropological Cinema club for the Indian Embassy in Moscow. A frequent visitor to India, on her current trip to the country she spoke to International Affairs Review about the state of Indian studies in Russia today: