New Delhi has increased its energy purchases from Russia over the past three months, delivering substantial quantities of a variety of items in exchange. This is how the Western sanctions have brought Russia and India closer.
The head of the Indian Center for Promotion of International Initiatives, Rishabh Sethi, told the media on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok that trade and economic collaboration between Russia and India have been expanding quickly despite and in part because of the Western sanctions.
“Over the past 75 years, Russia and India have been developing cooperation, and this year we have broken all the previous records of business and trade relations,” he said.
Sethi added that New Delhi has increased its energy purchases from Russia over the past three months, delivering substantial quantities of a variety of items in exchange.
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