New foreign policy strategy of Russia adopted by President Vladimir Putin on March 31 has identified China and India as its main allies on the world stage.
Russia’s New Foreign Policy Strategy
During the Cold War, India and Russia maintained a close strategic, military, economic, and diplomatic interaction. It is mentioned the strategic partnership between India and Russia is based on five main pillars – politics, defence, civil nuclear energy, counter-terrorism cooperation, and space.
According to the document, ”Russia will continue to build a particularly privileged strategic partnership with India with a view to enhancing and expanding cooperation in all areas on a mutually beneficial basis and place special emphasis on increasing the volume of bilateral trade, strengthening investment and technological ties, and ensuring their resistance to destructive actions of unfriendly states and their alliances.”
“In order to help adapt the world order to the realities of a multipolar world, Russia intends to make it one of priorities to enhance the capacity and international role of the interstate association of BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the RIC (Russia, India, China) and other interstate associations and international organizations, as well as mechanisms with strong Russian participation,” the document further read.