India-Russia ties: The optics of Modi with Putin when Nato meets in Washington, economictimes.indiatimes.com

Just when heads of Western military alliance Nato will be meeting in a summit from July 9 to 11 in Washington next week, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be the guest of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia on July 8-9. […]

The most unmistakable message from the Modi-Putin summit will be that Russia is not isolated in the face of a united West. Days before the Nato Summit and meeting Modi, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has met Putin in Moscow in a show of rare solidarity because Hungary is a Nato member. Orban’s visit has been heavily criticised by EU leaders. Modi’s visit could be another occasion for Russia to project the failure of the West to isolate it. Läs artikel