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4 Indian astronauts, who are undergoing training in Russia for India’s first human space flight are set to complete their first round of training this month
 

Close on the heels of green lighting the production of 83 indigenous Tejas jets, the government has formally moved ahead to procure 21 MiG-29, 12 Sukhoi-30MKI jet fighters from Russia along with the upgrades of their existing fleets
 

India will produce about 300 million doses of the Russian Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in 2021
 

BrahMos Aerospace, an India-Russian joint venture, produces the supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft, or from land platforms

The four Indian astronaut elects, who have been training in Russia for the Gaganyaan project, are all set to enter the last leg of the training module in Russia

India and Russia are planning to export BrahMos supersonic cruise missile to the Philippines and several other countries

 Dr Reddy's Laboratories and Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) have agreed to cooperate on clinical trials and distribution of Sputnik V vaccine in India
 

Russia plans to register a coronavirus vaccine by August 10-12, clearing the way for what its backers say would be the world’s first official approval of an inoculation against the epidemic

 The Russian Embassy in India tweeted a video reminding the founding of Vladivostok 
 

Four Indian cosmonauts who will take part in Russia’s Gaganyaan mission have resumed training after the coronavirus scare. 

Five-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, one of the world's most recognisable and highest-paid sportswomen, on February 26, announced her retirement at the age of 32. "Tennis - I'm saying goodbye," Sharapova said in an article for Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines. She added, "After 28 years and five Grand Slam titles, though, I'm ready to scale another mountain - to compete on a different type of terrain." Sharapova burst onto the scene as a supremely gifted teenager and won her Grand Slams before serving a 15-month ban for failing a drugs test at the 2016 Australian Open. The Russian former world number one's ranking is currently 373rd. Sharapova has hardly played in the past year because of long-standing shoulder problems. Watch this video to know more about her illustrious career.

Hello and welcome to this episode of The Handshake, my name is Amal Chowdhury and today we will be talking about how India-Russia relations are going to reach new heights. Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas and Steel Shri Dharmendra Pradhan today interacted with a delegation from Russian media. Speaking to the delegation, Pradhan said, “2019 was a landmark year which boosted the bilateral relations between India and Russia to hitherto unscaled heights.

A video of Russian military cadets singing the famous Hindi patriotic song “Aye Watan” has gone viral on social media. Twitterati heaped praises on Russian counterparts