Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India’s external affairs minister, has held talks with the Russian strategic community, including top foreign policy experts and researchers, during the first days of his official visit to Russia on a four-day trip that began on Monday.

RT | Shishir Upadhyaya: Escalating US pressure on Iran, including sanctions targeting Iranian oil exports, may have had an unexpected consequence pushing India to diversify its energy supplies by shifting from Tehran to Moscow as a major oil supplier. State-owned oil refiner Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has just signed a contract with Russias Rosneft ...