CONFLICT IN UKRAINE: VIEW FROM INDIA

Abstract

The artcle provides an overview of India's positon on the situaton in Ukraine, envisaging both the official positon at the internatonal level and the general media backdrop. At the diplomatc level, India consistently takes a neutral positon, but the informaton agenda is dominated by Western sources of informaton, which creates unfavorable percepton of Russia's actons in Ukraine. At the politcal level, India is likely to maintain a careful balance between historical tes with Russia and dynamically growing cooperaton with the West. The authors assume that despite the course and duraton of the military operaton, the Indian approach is not likely to undergo major changes.