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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicIndia-Russia trade

Topic: India-Russia trade

On agenda for Putin’s New Delhi visit: S-400s, small nuclear reactors, oil trade amid US sanctions

Ahead of the Russian President's visit and the Annual India-Russia Summit, Russian spokesperson says they are finding ways to not let US sanctions affect volume of oil trade with India. 

The Trump effect? India’s Russian goods imports fall 10.8%, US trade grows

Despite tariffs, US remains India’s largest export destination, with $52.12 billion worth of merchandise exports in the first seven months of this financial year.

In fresh salvo with image of Modi in saffron robes, Trump aide calls India ‘Kremlin oil money laundromat’

In series of posts on X, White House trade adviser Navarro laid out ‘India-Russia oil math’ & said ‘the road to peace in Ukraine runs through New Delhi’.

India doubles down on bilateral trade ties with Russia amid strain in relations with US

With Jaishankar in Moscow, India & Russia finalise terms of reference for FTA between New Delhi & EAEU, as both countries seek to grow trade to $100 bn by 2030.

Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy

India should have secured greater savings by pressing Russia for prices nearer the cap while sustaining high volumes. This would have preserved strategic autonomy and served economic logic.

‘Old’ India-Russia ties crucial now, says NSA Ajit Doval in Moscow amid Trump tariffs & India pushback

New Delhi: India’s “old, strategic and privileged” partnership with Russia is crucial at a time of global “unpredictability” and “uncertainty”, National Security Adviser (NSA)...

US likely to move bill imposing 500% tariffs on nations trading with Russia, including India & China

Senator Lindsey Graham says Trump asked him to move the bill in August. It allows tariffs on Putin's allies to stop them from buying oil, aiming to force Russia into talks on Ukraine.

Trade imbalance, US sanctions, transport corridors likely on agenda at India-Russia talks tomorrow

EAM Jaishankar & First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Denis Manturov will co-chair 25th session of IRIGC-TEC in New Delhi Tuesday. Payments in local currency also expected to be key issue.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.