Russia-India Strategic Partnership: Crisis of Understanding?

... 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. In the turbulent 1990s, when Russia was preoccupied with ...