Russia-Pakistan Strategic Pivot

Paper No. 6011                              Dated 21-Sept-2015

By Dr Subhash Kapila

Russia’s strategic pivot to Pakistan is not an aberration arising from India’s growing proximity to the United States but a well calibrated long-term strategic gamble that Russia has resorted to, hoping that in concert with China’s over-sized strategic investments in Pakistan, strategic and economic dividends could accrue to Russia also.