But the stunning similarity between India and Russia really lies elsewhere – in the extraordinary extent to which these two countries have gone in nonetheless engaging their adversaries who were perpetrating cross-border terrorism against them. Embedded deep within the press conference that the Russian President Vladimir Putin took in Paris on Monday — towards the end of it actually — comes a grim passage, which will sound familiar to any Indian politician or diplomat who ever had hands-on experience in negotiating with Pakistan as regards its sponsorship of terrorist groups as the country’s ‘strategic assets’. I reproduce the excerpts:(…)