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India and Pakistan exchanged heavy fire overnight, marking their worst confrontation since 2019 and raising fears of an all-out war between
gunmen killed 26 people, mostly tourists, in India-controlled Kashmir
Pakistan said the strikes amounted to an act of war and launched a retaliatory attack.The Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it
India goes as far back as the 1950s, when the Soviet Union used its UN Security Council veto in support of India on the issue of
and later Russia have played a mediating role between India and Pakistan, and the United States S.R
supported India throughout the Cold War.However, while British foreign affairs think tank Chatham House says the relationship between the
the two countries rose to $66 billion in 2024, with an eye on reaching $100 billion by 2030.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited
Russia twice in the past year, and he has met with Vladimir Putin 17 times in the last decade.Russian oil, which accounted for just 2% of
In December, the two countries penned a 10-year, $13 billion deal to supply 500,000 barrels of crude oil per day to Indian private refiner
also deeply involved when it comes to defense
the second-largest supplier of restricted critical technologies to Russia.Russia-Pakistan relationshipThe Russia-Pakistan relationship has
political science candidate at the University of Bonn, wrote in The Diplomat.In 2017, Islamabad joined the Moscow- and Beijing-led Shanghai
International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan
cooperation between the two countries is traditionally limited to energy, food security and counterterrorism, because arms sales would anger
As recently as March, Pakistan received the go-ahead to secure $1.3 billion in funding as part of an ongoing 37-month program that it said
helped the country stave off the threat of default.
