Adding another chapter to India-Russia friendship, Russia has announced a special plan for Indians. India and Russia are about to sign a visa-free agreement to facilitate travel between the two countries. Consultations between Russia and India on this bilateral agreement will begin in June. Moscow and New Delhi are trying to strengthen their tourism ties by starting a visa-free group tourist exchange, a Russian minister has said.
RT News quoted Nikita Kondratyev, director of the Department of Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, as saying, “Negotiations on a visa-free agreement with India are at the final stage. Not only that, Kondratyev said that Russia , plans to replicate the success of already established visa-free tourist exchanges with China and Iran.
Russia and China launched their visa-free group tourist exchange on August 1 last year. Similarly, visa-free group tourist exchanges between Russia and Iran began on the same date, ushering in a new era of tourism cooperation.
About Russia India relations
India–Russia relations are the bilateral relations and overall international policies between the Republic of India and the Russian Federation. During the Cold War, India and the Soviet Union (USSR) formed a strong and strategic relationship; this diplomatic unity was further strengthened with both nations’ shared military ideals, as well as their overall economic policies.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia kept the same close ties to India; in international terms, both nations share a special relationship. Russia and India, both, consider their mutual affinity to be a “special and privileged strategic partnership”. Their governments support the creation of a multipolar world order in which both nations are “poles”.
