Why India abstained from vote against Russia in the UN

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Dear reader,   Russian aggression in Ukraine has been making the biggest headlines worldwide. As experts have put it, Europe is facing its biggest crisis since the Second World War. Amidst the ongoing turmoil, India recently abstained from a resolution in the UN Security Council that was passed by the United States deploring the Russian invasion in the strongest terms. China and the UAE were the two other countries that also abstained from the resolution. Indian abstention is being explained as an act of balance between friends and partners in the US and Russia. At the same time, India’s vote in the UN needs to be seen as a legacy of Nehruvian diplomatic philosophy of non-alignment and non-interference and the special relationship that India and Russia shared in that context.    Our story this week examines why even though India followed the policy of non-alignment it was titled towards the Soviet Union. As experts have suggested, the non-aligned countries followed principles of anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism which happened to be aligned with the Soviet Union’s philosophies. Consequently, at the UN, India and the Soviet Union voted in similar patterns and on several occasions in the past India has been the beneficiary of the Russian veto.    Read the story: Behind India’s repeated abstentions against Russia at UN, legacy of policies past Sincerely,   Adrija Roychowdhury

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