Still, the Russian-Indian partnership will continue. Rajan Menon is a nonresident scholar in the Russia and Eurasia Program and director of the Grand Strategy Program at Defense Priorities. Moscow’s leverage versus both New Delhi and Beijing is shrinking as they have greater capabilities of their own than they had previously and have new partners that offer more than Russia. Against the backdrop of U.S.-China and China-India tensions, Russia’s position as China’s junior partner will make it harder for Russia to preserve partnership with India. Russia’s break with the West because of its war against Ukraine has accelerated its pivot toward China. India’s desire to diversify its supply of weapons and develop its own defense industry has resulted in declining Russian arms deliveries to India in recent years. Russia remains a major supplier of weapons to India, and Russian equipment still makes up a vast portion of Indian Armed Forces’ force structure but Russia is facing competition in the Indian arms market. Of the three pillars of the Moscow–New Delhi relationship, only one remains: the arms trade. The fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of India and China, the U.S.-China tensions, the deepening of U.S.-India ties, and the Russian-Chinese partnership intensified by Russia’s break with the West and the war against Ukraine have had a profound effect on Russian-Indian relations. United States–Pakistan–China geopolitical alignment.
shared public-sector-heavy economic philosophy and extensive Soviet aid and.Throughout the Cold War, the relationship rested on three pillars: Russian-Indian relations are undergoing a major change.
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