Amid ongoing trade tensions with the United States over Russian oil purchases and India's challenging situation to balance energy security and diplomatic relations and geopolitical shifts, Russian President Vladimir Putin's India visit for the 23rd India-Russia annual summit, scheduled on December 4 and 5, assumes significance not only for the two countries, but also for the whole world.

President Putin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi are scheduled to meet during the summit, and it is expected that talks between the two countries, which have continued bilateral relations for long, would touch several topics, including future military and technological cooperation, potential defense agreements, trade, agriculture and the ongoing challenges India faces in balancing energy imports between t

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