RIAC and VIF Report #34, 2017
In 2017, Russia and India celebrate the 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations. Over the years, the two states have steadily developed mutually beneficial ties. Their cooperation has achieved the level of special and privileged strategic partnership. Regular contacts between the two leaders have become an established practice. However, in order to make full use of the collaboration potential, ties between Russia and India should be taken to a qualitatively new level...
... 2008) and two visits by Russian Presidents to Argentina (Dmitry Medvedev in 2010 and Vladimir Putin in 2014).
Bilateral relations have gained momentum only in the last decade, due to the changes in the local political landscape.
The foundations for military-technical cooperation were laid in 2004, during a meeting in Moscow when Vladimir Putin and Nestor Kirchner signed the relevant agreement. The agreement was ratified two years later
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, and was followed by the first scandal involving the purchase ...
Notwithstanding the multitude of dire predictions about the decline of Russian arms exports, Moscow is building up its military-technical cooperation with foreign partners, firmly holding onto second place among global arms exporters. In 2013, sales of Rosoboronexport, Russia's sole vendor of defense items, reached
USD 13.2 billion
, with the United States leading the ...