🎙 President Vladimir Putin's interview with Aaj Tak and India Today (December 4, 2025)

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❓ Question: The history of Russia-India relations spans more than seven decades. This friendship is over 70 years old. How do you assess the strength of this friendship today?

💬 Vladimir Putin: You know, the world is changing very quickly, and the speed of these changes is growing – everyone can see this clearly. The global configuration is shifting, new centres of power are emerging. In these conditions, stability between major countries becomes extremely important. It creates a solid foundation for steady development – both bilaterally and globally.

In this sense, our work together with Prime Minister Modi is of great significance, even beyond the bilateral dimension. And when it comes specifically to our countries, stability across certain areas of cooperation is critically important, because it guarantees the achievement of the goals we have set for ourselves. <...>

We have an entire roadmap for cooperation across key sectors. The most important areas are certainly those oriented towards the future – high technologies. Russia and India work together in these fields in space, in energy – including nuclear energy, as is well known from the Kudankulam NPP, one of our major joint projects – as well as in shipbuilding and aviation.

❓ Question: There has been enormous pressure on India and on Russia, especially regarding oil. India has faced strong Western pressure. How can both countries counter this sanctions policy?

💬 Vladimir Putin: Our energy cooperation with India remains unaffected by present political shifts – and even by the tragic developments in Ukraine. <...>

Trade in oil and petroleum products, and the refining of Russian oil for Indian consumers, proceeds in a completely stable and predictable manner. I know the sentiment of our Russian partners and companies – they regard their Indian counterparts as reliable and very serious people. <...>

The US still purchases nuclear fuel from us for its own nuclear power plants. That is also fuel – uranium for reactors operating in the US. If the US has the right to buy fuel from us, why should India be deprived of this right? This is a question that deserves careful consideration, and we are ready to discuss it with President Trump.

❓ Question: In your view, what would constitute a victory for Russia in the Russia-Ukraine war? What are the “red lines”?

💬 Vladimir Putin: It is not about victory, as you put it – it is about the fact that Russia seeks to protect, and will certainly protect, its interests. To protect our people who live there, to protect our traditional values, the Russian language and so on. To protect the centuries-old religious heritage of these territories.

For eight years we did not recognize the self-proclaimed republics. They declared independence, and we tried to help establish relations between the rest of Ukraine and these republics. Later, when we realized this was impossible – that they were simply being eradicated – we were forced to recognize them.

And we immediately told Ukraine, told the Ukrainian military: people do not want to live with you, they held a referendum and voted for independence – withdraw your forces from there, and there will be no military action. No, they preferred to fight it out.

Now they have fought themselves into the situation we see today. And essentially it all comes down to the following: 👉 either we liberate these territories by military means, or Ukrainian troops eventually withdraw and stop killing people there. <...>

As I have already said, the most important thing for them [the Kiev regime] – is to realize that the best way to resolve issues is to reach an agreement by peaceful means on precisely what we sought to negotiate with them back in 2022.

В рамках Российско-Индийского бизнес-форума, Русский дом в Нью-Дели совместно с международной платформой фонда Росконгресс Roscongress International приглашает Вас на мероприятие
«Диалог культур: музыка и кино как форма общения»
В программе:
- Концерт иеромонаха Фотия (победитель шоу «Голос», обладатель уникального голоса, насельник Свято-Данилова монастыря).
- ⁠Творческая встреча со Светланой Герасимовой, генеральным продюсером Международного Сретенского кинофестиваля «Встреча».

В программе также эксклюзивный кинопоказ документального фильма «Огненный лис» (реж. Дмитрий Шпиленок), к которому иеромонах Фотий написал и исполнил главные музыкальные темы. Картина рассказывает о невероятной красоте Камчатки через историю огненно-рыжего лиса, снятого в Кроноцком заповеднике.

📅 6 декабря 2025 года (суббота)
🕑 14:00
📍 Русский дом в Нью-Дели, 24 Firoz Shah Road, New Delhi

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As part of the Russia-India Business Forum, the Russia House in New Delhi, together with Roscongress International, the international platform of the Roscongress Foundation, invites you to the event
"Dialogue of Cultures: Music and Cinema as a Form of Communication."
The program includes:
- A concert by Hieromonk Photius (winner of the show "The Voice," possessor of a unique voice, and a resident of St. Daniel's Monastery).
- A creative meeting with Svetlana Gerasimova, general producer of the International Sretensky Film Festival "Vstrecha."

The program also includes an exclusive screening of the documentary "Fire Fox" (directed by Dmitry Shpilenok), for which Hieromonk Photius wrote and performed the main musical themes. The film tells the incredible beauty of Kamchatka through the story of a fiery red fox, filmed in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve.

📅 December 6, 2025 (Saturday)
🕑 2:00 PM
📍 Russian House New Delhi, 24 Firoz Shah Road, New Delhi

Free admission