India's Relationships With Russia Are Transactional

India's relations with Russia tend to be transactional rather than strategic or based on any common values, the line that we keep hearing from the White House. India is getting cheap oil from Russia and it's happy to play the neutral card in the contest in the war in Ukraine. That cheap oil by the way is not helping ordinary Indians. The price of gas in India has not come down. Much of that oil is being turned into sort of being refined and sold to European markets. So a small number of big business houses are benefiting ordinary Indians whether they like it or not.