Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to New Delhi provided an opportunity for the leadership of India and Russia to review progress in bilateral relations, set the vision for strengthening the partnership and exchange views on regional and global issues of mutual interest. India-Russia defence relations moved beyond the traditional buyer-seller dynamic towards deeper collaboration. Delhi needs to reorient partnership with Moscow to make the most of co-production in the defence sector, says C Uday Bhaskar in his Edit piece Russia key to India’s quest for self-reliance . The emphasis was not on defence deals, but on joint manufacturing and preparing for subsequent exports to mutually friendly third countries. He gives the example of China which used reverse-engineering successfully

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