Question

Explain the correlation between the following:

India and Russia

Answer 1

1. In 1947, India gained its independence. India made the decision to maintain its neutrality and avoid involvement in Cold War politics.
2. Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, introduced the Non-Aligned policy as the country’s foreign policy. As a result, India did not join any bloc of superpowers.
3. India consistently maintained positive relations with the Soviet Union despite its stance on Cold War politics to maintain neutrality between the US and the USSR.
4. It includes the Friendship Treaty of 1971, key weapons, low-interest loans, technology, and licensed production of some of these weapons from the Soviet Union.
5. Relations between the newly formed state of Russia and India were originally strained following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, but they eventually improved significantly.