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 ...
... military drills not far from Eastern Europe and the Baltic states.
According to the Western sources
, Moscow conducts military exercises much more frequently than NATO. All this brings about the alarm in the West. One can remember the buzz around the Russian-Belarusian military exercises Zapad,
which took place on the territory of Belorussia
: the Baltic states, Ukraine and Poland expected some provocations from Russia.
Before the drills Germany’s Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen
described the Zapad maneuvers
...
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 ...
... “war games” in Central and Eastern Europe, are 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 ...
