CONTEXTUALISING INDIA-RUSSIA RELATIONS THE CHINA FACTOR.

The changing economic, military and strategic environment around the world has had its repercussions with India trying to exercise greater mobility and flexibility to conduct its foreign policy. In this context, India-Russia relations have profound policy implications. This paper examines and summarises the broad contours of India-Russia relations of the past seven decades in multiple facets with far reaching ramifications at play. It also explains the China factor in a contextual relationship with India and Russia and on the background of the Sino-American equation, as China becomes a preeminent power in Asia with an ambitious agenda to match the prowess of the US on the global front. At the end it forecasts some probable scenarii both regionally and globally involving India, Russia and China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]