Fyodor Lukyanov: Here’s why India has never been as important as it is now

... still a long way from achieving this goal. And that is where all efforts, including foreign policy, will be directed. Today’s India is interesting not only in its own right, but also as an example of how an independent state behaves in a changing international environment. On the one hand, India (like many other countries) is happy with the increasing level of democracy in the global environment. The great powers can no longer impose their demands on others as they did a decade ago. The more room for maneuver and the less binding the relationship,...