When all eyes are on Russian President Vladimir Putin, who flew to India Thursday for a two-day visit, his first since the start of the Ukraine war, another grand “arrival” will be vying for eyeballs.

Coinciding with his visit, Putin will be launching Russian State-funded television network RT’s India arm on Friday, from a temporary studio created at a five-star hotel in New Delhi . A short interview on his India visit may follow.

With a state-of-the-art studio in the National Capital Region and a team of over a hundred, RT India is arguably the biggest overseas venture for the Russia Today global network.

Significantly, this comes amidst a ban on RT by the European Union, announced soon after the start of the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022.

The Moscow-based RT was launched in 2005 as pa

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