Prepared in the framework of the RIAC and Indian Council of World Affairs Joint Paper
Prepared in the framework of the RIAC and Indian Council of World Affairs (
ICWA
) Joint Paper
Recent Russia-India partnership history goes back to 1971 when the first Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Moscow and Delhi was signed. Although India headed the Non-Alignment Movement during the Cold War era, it was closer to the Soviet Union than some Communist Bloc members, such as China or Yugoslavia....
... Pentagon’s Head James Mattis
. He clarified that Washington would keep containing Moscow regardless of “how much money they want to put into this arms race with themselves.” Mattis described Putin’s address as “disappointing but unsurprising.”
Military exercises
The current credibility crisis and the arms race between Russia and the West provoke them to conduct planned military drills more frequently. In October, NATO will conduct the large-scale maneuvers in Norway, which borders Russia from ...
Is there any connection between Russian military exercises and NATO military manoeouvres?
Over the past year or so (less than a year, in fact), Russian troops have conducted a series of major military exercises, many of which were unplanned and even unexpected. In 2014 alone, the Ministry ...
... unlikely, in and of themselves, to be a harbinger or catalyst for a new phase of aggravation in relations between Russia and the West.
This state of affairs has also been recognized officially: Russia and NATO are well aware of the contents and modes of military exercises pertaining to each other. And although politicians in Russia and NATO countries alike must have saved up enough sharp remarks to fuel the interest of the public
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, they abstain from any straightforward assessments of their counterpart’s ...
