And then there were five. With the arrival of Dmitry Medvedev in New Delhi on Tuesday, India has completed an impressive diplomatic quintet. Russia’s president is the fifth and final leader from the five members of the UN Security Council to visit India in the past six months, following a path that has led to multi-billion business deals and burnished India’s sense of its rising global importance.
India and Russia signed 11 agreements on Tuesday, the first day of Medvedev’s two-day visit – including a deal through which ONGC, India’s state-owned energy company, will cooperate with Russia’s AFK Sistema in hydrocarbon development.
