If Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had gone...

During that visit, Russia and India signed a declaration of strategic partnership and the so-called Putin-Vajpayee plan, a series of other agreements named after the Russian president and the Indian prime minister at the time. This was the start of a new relationship between the two countries, after total failure in the 1990s.

And now Prime Minister Putin is reaping what President Putin sowed ten years ago. This time around Russia may net $10 billion, for which India will benefit appropriately. The visit will focus primarily on cooperation in nuclear energy, notably the construction of two reactors for the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu, which will supplement the two previously agreed upon reactors expected to begin operation in 2010. Other Russian nuclear projects include six generators for a nuclear plant in Haripur in West Bengal and, venturing into the realm of the incomprehensible to non-specialists, joint thorium fuel cycle nuclear power projects, a fast-neutron

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