MOSCOW, January 25 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's...
According to Sergei Prikhodko, a presidential aide, Vladimir Putin will meet Indian leaders and representatives of business circles to discuss future cooperation in energy, space exploration, machine-building, IT technology, medicine and biotechnology.
Although India is a key buyer of Russian weaponry, overall trade has been fairly low in recent years, totaling $2 billion annually.
The presidential aide said: "The level of our relations is such that Russia and India are ready to make a transition from pure trade relations - buying and selling goods - to the creation of joint ventures in various spheres, especially in the hi-tech industry."
A Kremlin source earlier said Russia and India had formed a research group to prepare a program for developing economic cooperation, with the goal of boosting bilateral trade to $10 billion by 2010.
"We will focus on implementing large infrastructure projects," the source said.