{"id":656017,"date":"2025-12-09T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=656017"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:05:33","slug":"putin-bids-to-keep-oil-arms-flowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/putin-bids-to-keep-oil-arms-flowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin bids to keep oil, arms flowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi\u2019s red carpet welcome and signature bear-hug for Russian President Vladimir Putin signals New Delhi\u2019s stamp of continuity for its \u2018multi-alignment\u2019 foreign policy. The timing is important: India has cut back on Russian oil imports following the new Western sanctions. For Putin too, facing isolation on the Ukraine war, to connect with India on the 25th anniversary of the two countries\u2019 special relations, became important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Narendra Modi\u2019s red carpet welcome and signature bear-hug for Russian President Vladimir Putin signals New Delhi\u2019s stamp of continuity for its \u2018multi-alignment\u2019 foreign policy. The timing is important: India has cut back on Russian oil imports following the new Western sanctions. For Putin too, facing isolation on the Ukraine war, to connect with India on the 25th anniversary of the two countries\u2019 special relations, became important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,207,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}