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Russian President Vladimir Putin to travel to India in rare trip abroad
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MOSCOW, 27 November 2021, (TON): Moscow said “the Russian leader will go to India on December 6 for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
Putin has only left Russia once during the pandemic, to meet US President Joe Biden in Geneva in June.
In a statement, the Kremlin said “Putin and Modi will hold talks on furthering the privileged strategic partnership between Russia and India.
It said “the pair will discuss their joint work within the G20, BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) group, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), an eight-member group that promotes itself as an antidote to Western geopolitical dominance.
The talks are expected to be centered around the deliveries of Russia’s S-400 air defense systems and Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines to India.
India is a major buyer of Russian military hardware. In 2018, it ordered Moscow’s S-400 missile defense system despite the threat of US sanctions over the $5.4-billion deal.
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