India, Russia must jointly push for multipolar world: JNU professor

India-Russia relations are such that the formal bilateral and multilateral engagements have been termed as special friendship

Russia expert Anuradha Chenoy’s latest book is Re-emerging Russia: Structures, Institutions and Processes. In this interview with Aditi Phadnis, she discusses the significance of the informal meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin at Sochi earlier this month

What led to the informal meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Putin at Sochi ? Such meetings are rare any way but in recent times, have become rarer still...

Formal meetings and summits have clear official agendas, records and processes. India and Russia have formal bilateral meetings on a regular basis. The idea of an informal meeting can be