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The Indo–Soviet Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation was a treaty signed between India and the Soviet Union in August 1971 that specified mutual strategic cooperation. This was a significant deviation from India's previous position of non-alignment during the Cold War [1] and was a factor in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani war.
India and the Soviet Union had cooperative and friendly relations. [1] During the Cold War (1947–1991), India did not choose sides between the Capitalist Bloc and the Communist Bloc and was a leading country of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
At a convention held in the Convocation Hall of Bombay University June 3–4, 1944 the organisation became the 'All India Friends of the Soviet Union'. [3] Some 2,000 people took part in the event, out of whom a hundred were delegates. [3] In 1944 the organization began publishing Indo-Soviet Journal from Bombay. [1]
The energy sector is an important area in Indo-Russian bilateral relations. In 2001, ONGC-Videsh acquired 20% stake in the Sakhalin-I oil and gas project in the Russian Federation, and has invested about US$1.7 billion in the project. Gazprom, the Russian company, and Gas Authority of India have collaborated in joint development of a block in ...
Soviet Union portal This category is for bilateral relations between India and the Soviet Union . The main article for this category is India–Soviet Union relations .
Following the conclusion of the Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in February 1961, a site for the establishment of a 2 million tonnes per year oil refinery was selected on 17 April 1961. [2] Soviet and Indian engineers signed a contract in October 1961 for the preparation of the project.
The signing of the Indo-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in 1971 and India's involvement in the internal affairs of its smaller neighbours in the 1970s and 1980s tarnished its image as a non-aligned nation and led some observers to question India's non-alignment. [7]
The Soviet Union provided agriculture machinery and trained Indian farm operators. [citation needed] The primary crops of the farm are wheat, gram, mustard, rapeseed, moong, bajra and jowar. The Indian cabinet also approved a 200 mW solar plant on 400 hectares of CSF Jaitsar land. [1] [2]