India and Russia relationship

India and Russia relationship

Russia fully respects all interests of 

India - Russian President

Russia's relations with India are based on trust - Vladimir Putin

St. Petersburg: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that India's relations with his country are based on trust.  At the same time, he made it clear that Russia's growing ties with Pakistan and other countries would not diminish relations between the two countries.

  President Putin said there is no other country in the world with which Russia has such deep cooperation in a sensitive region such as missiles.

  He also said that wherever there was a threat of terrorism, it would not be acceptable.  Russia will fully support India in the fight against terrorism.  The Russian president added that Russia does not have close military ties with Pakistan.  Russia fully respects all Indian interests.

  At the same time, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Russian President Vladimir Putin today, relations were very good.  When Prime Minister Modi said that the brother of the Russian president is one of the many members of his family who lost their lives for the country.

  During a meeting with Putin, 64, for the second time in eight months, Prime Minister Modi, in his opening remarks, referred to a visit to the Piskeroskoye Cemetery, where more than 5 million people died during World War II and the 900-day occupation of Leningrad.  The monument has been built.

  "I had the opportunity to visit the graveyard and pay tribute to those who lost their lives for Russia," Modi said.  Looking at President Putin, he said, "You are a politician whose family sacrificed for the respect of Russia."  He said, "Your brothers have been martyred."  Putin's brother, Victor, died 70 years ago during World War II.

  According to Putin's 2008 report to Risky Pioneer magazine, his father had six brothers.  Five of them were killed during the 1941-1944 war.  Putin told the magazine how his frail mother was taken from a dilapidated building on a stretcher in a sealed state.  Earlier, two-year-old Victor died of diphtheria and starvation during the hostage-taking and violent war.

  Putin's second brother, Albert, was born in the 1930s, but also died in infancy.  Born in 1952, Putin thanked Prime Minister Modi for visiting the cemetery.  "Such places have a special significance in the hearts of the Russian people," he said.