India’s foreign minister held talks Friday with his Ukrainian counterpart, who was visiting to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation with New Delhi, which considers Russia a historic ally from the Cold War era. Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in a post on the social media platform X that he and Dmytro Kuleba discussed … Read more
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revived Cold War sentiments and triggered a major realignment of the global economy, with India at the center of it all. In the first days of the conflict, the United States-led Western alliance imposed a slew of sanctions on Russia, including a ban on key Russian banks from the world’s … Read more
Indian Foreign Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar was in Russia on a five-day visit in late December. Upon conclusion of the visit, the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) issued a press release saying that he had meetings with a number of senior Russian officials including President Vladimir Putin, which is considered unusual for the Kremlin … Read more
When India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar went to Moscow last week, he appeared to turn the page in India-Russia ties after two years of tightrope walking. For the better part of the last two years, even as it had maintained neutrality on Ukraine and rapidly expanded trade with Russia, India had been wary of … Read more
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, India has been in the spotlight of international attention, with Western countries urging Delhi to reconsider its neutral stance. Why has the world’s so-called largest democracy not condemned the Kremlin, and can New Delhi be expected to change its approach? Some analysts believe so, considering the … Read more
Advertisement After the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine commenced in late February 2022, hardly any Indian politicians called for their country to denounce Moscow’s actions, let alone completely change the course of Indian foreign policy. One of the few exceptions was Shashi Tharoor, one of the most important politicians in the nation’s largest opposition party, … Read more
Advertisement India has been trying to make sure that it has good relations with all major powers. This has become one of the key goals of Indian foreign policy. At the political level, India has been trying to make it work with the Quad as well as BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and many … Read more
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, September 16, 2022. Credit: Twitter/ Narendra Modi Advertisement In the wake of last month’s attempted coup against Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian diplomacy toiled in a frenzy. Shortly after … Read more
Advertisement Some of its India’s recent successes on the international scene include its vaccine diplomacy in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and the retaining of New Delhi’s simultaneous partnerships with the West and Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. (The latter is, obviously, a success from the perspective of New Delhi, not of the … Read more
Flashpoints | Diplomacy | South Asia Ukraine is not a G-20 member, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was invited to participate in last year’s G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. Advertisement India is not planning to invite Ukraine to the summit of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations in September, its external affairs minister said Thursday. “In our view, … Read more