PM Modi landed in Moscow, India Diaspora Welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Russia. PM Modi thanks Indian Diaspora for Warm Welcome. This is the first visit of Indian prime Minister Since 2019 after the Russia- Ukraine War starts to Russia. PM Modi last met with President Vladmir Putin in Samarkand, Uzbekistan 2022Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit.
PM Modi Will meet Vladmir Putin on Tuesday, marking their 17th meeting in the past decade. In 2019, PM Modi received Russia’s highest state honour, the “Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First.”
India and Russia have maintained a close relationship since the Cold War, and Russia was for a long time India’s largest arms supplier. But Ukraine has stretched Russia’s arms supplies thin. Russia’s share of Indian imports of arms has shrunk considerably in recent years, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
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#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at Hotel The Carlton in Moscow
In a rare gesture, the First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Denis Manturov accompanied PM Modi to the hotel from the airport in the same car. PM Modi is on a two-day official visit to Russia. pic.twitter.com/r1ZQH2ykzV
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At the same time, India has become a major buyer of Russian oil, providing a much-needed export market for Moscow after it was cut off from traditional buyers in Europe. That has dramatically reshaped energy ties, with India saving itself billions of dollars while bolstering Moscow’s war coffers.