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The Indian government announced on Thursday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Moscow on July 8 and 9 at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.“The leaders will review the entire range of multifaceted relations between the two countries and exchange views on contemporary regional and global issues of mutual interest,” Modi’s office said.
China’s demand for Russian oil has slipped as the Chinese economy sputters, so Russia offered India even better prices to take up the slack, and India accepted. One of India’s biggest refiners, Nayara Energy, is partly owned by Russia’s state-owned energy conglomerate Rosneft, a rather tidy arrangement for the Russians.
Kwatra said Modi also wants to discuss the fate of Indian nationals who were “misled” into joining the Russian army and fighting in Ukraine, where at least four of them have been killed.to Modi in March that their husbands, sons, and brothers were tricked into joining the Russian military by a scam that supposedly recruited them for lucrative private-sector jobs in Dubai.
India’s suspension of summit meetings with Russia after the coronavirus panic receded was widely seen as an expression of tacit displeasure with the Ukraine conflict, so resuming those meetings can only be seen as India swallowing its discomfort to keep Russia’s oil flowing.
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