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CHENNAI – Namaste Putin! Welcome to India. The arrival of the Russian leader Vladimir Putin in India for a flash trip was greeted with all the importance of an occasion like this, in a moment of turmoil in the geopolitical and strategic relations of the superpowers. With tensions rising between Washington and Moscow over Russian troops concentrated on the Ukrainian border, and with Putin’s economy growing reliance on relations with China due to Western sanctions, the Russian leader’s trip to Delhi, the second away from home since the pandemic exploded, takes on important meanings.
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