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Appreciating Russian President Vladimir Putin for taking the India-Russia narration to “new heights” implicit the past 4th of a century, Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid retired an expansive canvas of vigor and commercialized collaborations betwixt the 2 countries, stretching to 2030. Addressing the media aft bilateral talks astatine Hyderabad House connected Friday (December 5, 2025), Mr. Modi described the India-Russia relationship arsenic a “guiding star” and called for a peaceful solution to Russia’s warfare with Ukraine.
“Over the past 8 decades, the satellite has witnessed galore ups and downs. Humanity has faced galore challenges and crises. Yet, done each of this, the India-Russia relationship has remained dependable similar a dhruva tara (guiding star),” the Prime Minister said.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri expanded connected the PM’s usage of the Hindi word ‘dhruva tara’ during a aboriginal briefing, saying it referred to the “sustained and agelong word value of this relation.” Highlighting the “sustainability and certainty” of India-Russia ties, Mr. Misri added, “This narration is simply a constant. There person been respective crises on the mode but they person not altered the fundamentals of this relationship.”
‘Pushing for bid successful Ukraine’
Mr. Putin’s sojourn has attracted planetary attraction arsenic it comes months aft U.S. President Donald Trump imposed punitive tariffs connected India for purchasing Russian energy. Mr. Trump described his determination arsenic a maneuver to propulsion Russia to the negotiating array connected Ukraine.
In his remarks, the Prime Minister referred to “energy security” arsenic a “strong and captious pillar of the India-Russia partnership”. Since the opening of the struggle successful Ukraine, “India has consistently advocated for peace, with regards to the concern successful Ukraine,” helium added.
Ahead of the property statements by Mr. Modi and Mr. Putin astatine Hyderabad House, the Russian President’s peculiar envoy Kirill Dmitriev told the Russian and Indian media that “British and European property is going hysterical trying to disrupt the U.S.-Russia negotiation”. In an oblique notation to an nonfiction precocious published successful an Indian paper that was jointly authored by the French, British, and German envoys to India, Mr. Dmitriev said, “We cognize the British empire does not beryllium immoderate much but attempts to disrupt [the Russia-U.S.] bid dialog done the usage of the media is inactive continuing.”
Mr. Modi, who has called for bid connected aggregate occasions since the opening of the Ukraine struggle successful February 2022, reiterated the Indian position. “We invited each efforts being made for a peaceful and lasting solution successful this matter. India has ever been, and volition ever beryllium acceptable to contribute,” helium said.
Nuclear vigor cooperation
Referring to the Kudankulam powerfulness works arsenic the “largest atomic reactor of India”, Mr. Putin announced that Russia is besides consenting to collaborate with India for tiny modular atomic reactors.
“Our decades-old practice successful the tract of civilian atomic vigor has played an important relation successful advancing our shared cleanable vigor priorities. We volition proceed to instrumentality this win-win practice forward,” the Prime Minister said, mentioning the Chennai-Vladivostok transport corridor arsenic a task that is being nurtured jointly.
The India-Russia associated connection besides made an extended notation to vigor security, noting “the existent and imaginable practice betwixt Indian and Russian companies successful fields specified arsenic lipid and lipid products, lipid refining and petrochemical technologies, oilfield services and upstream technologies and related infrastructure.” Both sides person besides agreed to resoluteness the challenges faced by their “investors successful the vigor sector”.
Rising trade, escaped visas
Mr. Putin emphasised the commercialized facet of India-Russia relations. During 2024-25, India-Russia commercialized has touched $64 billion, helium said. “We are connected way to interaction $100 cardinal by 2030. We are presently successful treatment for a Free Trade Agreement betwixt India and the Eurasian Economic Union and caller effectual planetary transport corridor that volition link Belarus and Russia with the Indian Ocean coast,” helium said.
The Russian President described India and Russia arsenic countries that some travel an “independent overseas policy” that calls for a “more just, antiauthoritarian multipolar satellite bid and respect for sovereignty”.
The 2 sides besides announced a programme for the improvement of strategical areas of India-Russia economical practice till 2030. To heighten people-to-people and commercialized contacts, the Prime Minister announced the assistance of 30 days e-tourist visas “on gratis basis” to Russian nationals connected reciprocal basis, and the assistance of radical tourer visa connected gratis ground to Russian nationals arsenic well.
The 2 sides signed sixteen MoUs covering areas specified arsenic the mobility of semi-skilled workers, fertilizers, media, and world collaboration. Marking a caller crook successful media collaboration, Mr. Putin attended a peculiar lawsuit present to motorboat the Indian variation of the Russian state-owned English broadcaster, Russia Today. The channel’s Indian mentation volition beryllium its 2nd planetary foray aft an earlier Arabic edition.
