When Vladimir Putin’s plane touches down in New Delhi this week, he will be met with the pomp and ceremony reserved for one of India’s most steadfast partners. Yet his host, Prime Narendra Modi, is simultaneously forging a deep strategic relationship with a key global rival: the United States.

The United States itself still buys nuclear fuel from us for its own nuclear power plants. That is also fuel,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his first visit to India in four years.

A summit between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin that tackled a trade imbalance and pushed to deepen defence ties between the two countries was also steeped in symbolism.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says some proposals in a U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable to the Kremlin

Russia's president bears "moral responsibility" for the death of a British woman poisoned with the nerve agent, an inquiry concluded.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was "morally responsible" for Dawn Sturgess' death from Novichok poisoning in 2018, an inquiry has concluded. The mother-of-three's condition after she sprayed nerve agent, disguised as perfume, on her wrists had been "unsurvivable from a very early stage", the final report said.

The Russian President's India trip comes as relations between Washington and Delhi remain strained, writes Harsh V. Pant.