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DIRECTIONAL RELATIONSHIP · 2026

Russia → India

This score represents Russia's relationship toward India. The reverse direction is calculated separately and shown alongside it.

RUS → IND+39Partner95% evidence confidenceBroad sourced evidence
IND → RUS+43Partner4-point gap · not analytically meaningful
SIX-COMPONENT MODEL

Current component scores

Component values run from −100 to +100 and are combined with the published weights.

Security+5

1 documented factor produce the +5 security assessment.

Why this score?
  1. +5Strategic and energy partnership broadens
    Active event · 2024

    The annual summit reaffirms the partnership across security, energy, trade, foreign policy and humanitarian cooperation.

Coverage gap: The reviewed 2015 record documents deep defence, nuclear and space cooperation, but no frozen v1 Security rule matched a non-allied partnership without a qualifying strategy document or operational bilateral guardrail.

Diplomacy+73

6 documented factors produce the +73 diplomacy assessment.

Why this score?
  1. +17.9Annual summit produces sixteen agreements
    Baseline rule · 2015

    The presidents and prime minister completed a substantive annual summit spanning security, economy, energy, science and societal ties.

  2. +9Dense annual and ministerial dialogue architecture
    Baseline rule · 2015

    Annual summits and intensive contacts among ministries, security councils and specialised agencies maintained recurring senior-level coordination.

  3. +31.4Special and privileged strategic partnership
    Baseline rule · 2015

    Both governments describe the relationship as a time-tested special and privileged strategic partnership spanning multiple policy areas.

  4. +5Energy trade expands sharply
    Active event · 2022

    India's official bilateral brief records an exceptional increase in trade, driven principally by oil, petroleum products, fertilizers and other Russian exports.

  5. +5Strategic and energy partnership broadens
    Active event · 2024

    The annual summit reaffirms the partnership across security, energy, trade, foreign policy and humanitarian cooperation.

  6. +5Partnership and economic roadmap reaffirmed
    Active event · 2025

    The leaders renew the special and privileged partnership and expand the roadmap for trade, technology, energy, education and cultural cooperation.

Economic+53

3 documented factors produce the +53 economic assessment.

Why this score?
  1. +13.4Institutional trade and investment cooperation
    Baseline rule · 2015

    The summit produced commercial agreements and reaffirmed recurring government mechanisms for trade, investment and energy projects.

  2. +35Energy trade expands sharply
    Active event · 2022

    India's official bilateral brief records an exceptional increase in trade, driven principally by oil, petroleum products, fertilizers and other Russian exports.

  3. +5Partnership and economic roadmap reaffirmed
    Active event · 2025

    The leaders renew the special and privileged partnership and expand the roadmap for trade, technology, energy, education and cultural cooperation.

Alignment+74

4 documented factors produce the +74 alignment assessment.

Why this score?
  1. +9Sustained multilateral coordination
    Baseline rule · 2015

    The summit records continuing coordination in BRICS, the SCO, G20 and several other multilateral formats.

  2. +44.8Broad strategic convergence
    Baseline rule · 2015

    The official partnership combines defence and security cooperation with coordinated foreign-policy and multilateral action.

  3. +15United Nations voting alignment
    Baseline rule · 2015

    A rolling three-year comparison of UN General Assembly votes activates the alignment threshold.

  4. +5Strategic and energy partnership broadens
    Active event · 2024

    The annual summit reaffirms the partnership across security, energy, trade, foreign policy and humanitarian cooperation.

Societal+28

3 documented factors produce the +28 societal assessment.

Why this score?
  1. +17.9National education, science and cultural exchange
    Baseline rule · 2015

    The summit advances national programmes in education, science, culture and people-to-people relations.

  2. +5Strategic and energy partnership broadens
    Active event · 2024

    The annual summit reaffirms the partnership across security, energy, trade, foreign policy and humanitarian cooperation.

  3. +5Partnership and economic roadmap reaffirmed
    Active event · 2025

    The leaders renew the special and privileged partnership and expand the roadmap for trade, technology, energy, education and cultural cooperation.

CHANGE SINCE 2015

+27 in 2015 → +39 in 2026

The change is generated from sourced events and frozen scoring rules, not retrospective editorial adjustment.

ACTIVE EVIDENCE

Events affecting the current score

+7

Energy trade expands sharply

India's official bilateral brief records an exceptional increase in trade, driven principally by oil, petroleum products, fertilizers and other Russian exports.

+3

Strategic and energy partnership broadens

The annual summit reaffirms the partnership across security, energy, trade, foreign policy and humanitarian cooperation.

+2

Partnership and economic roadmap reaffirmed

The leaders renew the special and privileged partnership and expand the roadmap for trade, technology, energy, education and cultural cooperation.

Interpret with care

This analytical score is not an objective fact, endorsement or prediction. Confidence reflects evidence coverage, while incomplete or unavailable observations remain explicit. Differences below 5 points are treated as practical ties rather than a meaningful ranking.

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