Russian policy towards South Asia

Bakshi, Jyotsna

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“…New Delhi–Moscow ties started drifting under Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev’s term in early 1990s. Russia did not need India as a strategic ally since relations with the West were given top priority while India’s importance was downgraded (Bakshi, 1999; Kavalski, 2010; Nadkarni, 1995; Ollapally, 2002; Shukla, 1999). However, one possibility that could have brought India and Russia closer was a shared perception of an Islamic threat (Nadkarni, 1995).…”

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‘Afghanistan Factor’ in India–Russia Relationship

Sharma

2023

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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Afghanistan has been an important factor in India–Russia ties. There was not much cooperation between them before 1979. However, in later years, the two countries had an intelligence-sharing mechanism along with Afghanistan in order to deal with their common security challenges which had close links with security situation in Afghanistan. In the 1990s, India–Russia supported their mutual fight against terrorism as Taliban-controlled Afghanistan became a common security challenge. In the current context, both countries have established institutional mechanisms to coordinate their Afghanistan policies. Their engagement with Taliban is ‘conditional’ while the two countries would continue to share intelligence and coordinate their respective Afghanistan policies since they still face similar security challenges from Afghanistan.

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Section: Phases Of India–russia Engagement In Afghanistanmentioning

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‘Afghanistan Factor’ in India–Russia Relationship

Sharma

2023

India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs

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The Soviet Union's Partnership with India

Mastny¹

2010

Journal of Cold War Studies

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The relationship between the Soviet Union and India was a hallmark of the Cold War. Over nearly forty years, Soviet-Indian relations passed through three distinct periods, coinciding with the ascendance of three extraordinary pairs of leaders, each extraordinary for different reasons—Jawaharlal Nehru and Nikita Khrushchev, Indira Gandhi and Leonid Brezhnev, and Rajiv Gandhi and Mikhail Gorbachev. The rise and decline of a political dynasty in India paralleled the trajectory seen in the Soviet Union. None of the periods ended well—the first in debacles with China, the second with Indira Gandhi's assassination, the third with the demise of the Soviet Union. The relationship in its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s was the product of a unique set of circumstances during the early Cold War. In the end, however, the relationship proved to be little more than a sideshow in the larger drama of the Cold War.

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Russian policy towards South Asia

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‘Afghanistan Factor’ in India–Russia Relationship

‘Afghanistan Factor’ in India–Russia Relationship

The Soviet Union's Partnership with India

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