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Russia’s supersonic 400km range S-400 missiles on Indian soil should worry neither the Chinese with their hypersonic missiles, nor the Americans on the other side of the planet (“When Putin’s Russia arms India, China and the US keep one eye open”, October 4).
The air defence system will most likely be deployed on India’s border with Pakistan. We, in Russia, know very little about what is called a glacier war on the highest battleground on earth there, with both armies frequently engaging in artillery duels involving mortar shells and gunfire.
For Modi's India, 2+2=0 as Trump tightens the leash
However, as stopping a Pakistani shell with a Russian missile is clearly a game that is not worth the candle, India must have bought the S-400 to benefit from its highly sophisticated radar as an early warning system. And the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s game is “forewarned is forearmed”.
Mergen Mongush, Moscow


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Indian villagers near Jammu run to escape shelling across the northern border with Pakistan, in January 2018. Photo: AFP

Russia-India-China meeting shows a multipolar world order is taking shape

Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj clasps hands with her Russian and Chinese counterparts, Sergey Lavrov and Wang Yi, after the Russia-India-China foreign ministerial meeting in New Delhi on December 11. Photo: EPA-EFE

(171211) -- DAMASCUS, Dec. 11, 2017 (Xinhua) -- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (2nd L, Front) and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin (2nd R) view a military parade in the Russian-run Hmeimim Air Base in the coastal city of Latakia, Syria, on Dec. 11, 2017. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Syria on Monday, the presidential media office reported. During Putin's visit, he ordered his defense minister to prepare for withdrawing the Russian forces, according to the report. (Xinhua/Syrian Presidency)

Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov, right, with the Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee before a scheduled meeting and signing of agreements in New Delhi Monday, Dec. 21, 1998. Primakov is the first head of state from the five nuclear declared states to visit India, after the Indian government conducted nuclear tests in May 1998. To the left is the Indian Foreign Minister, Jaswant Singh. (AP photo/Ajit Kumar)