MOSCOW, December 4. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin sets off for a state visit to India, and the European Commission proposes two solutions to use frozen Russian funds. Meanwhile, the EU is mulling the Military Schengen project. These stories topped Thursday’s newspaper headlines across Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay his first state visit to India in four years on December 4-5. The two sides will sign 10 intergovernmental agreements and more than 15 commercial contracts. Moscow and New Delhi will outline strategic spheres of economic cooperation until 2030 as the Kremlin expects to reach $100 billion worth of bilateral trade. Roscosmos and Rosatom are bringing specific proposals to India. Despite Western pressure, defense cooperation, too, can be boosted with potential contracts for the delivery of Su-57 fighters, S-400 and even S-500 missile systems. As global players, Russia and India largely determine global security. The Russian Foreign Ministry told Izvestia that the two countries are also discussing a Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity in the 21st century.
Among other issues, payment solutions, a visa-free regime, and the expansion of direct flights between the two countries will help develop bilateral tourism, Vice President of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Dmitry Gorin told the newspaper.
