NEW DELHI: Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov said there's no threat to India-Russia economic partnership from the strain in India-US ties and complimented India for showing "self-respect" by not buckling under external pressure in securing its energy interests. Speaking after a meeting with his counterpart S Jaishankar on the margins of the UNGA, he said Russia fully respects India's national interests and the "independent foreign policy" that PM Narendra Modi is pursuing, while also stressing India and Russia share a "particularly privileged strategic partnership". "These situations that might arise between India and the US or India and any other country, I can't consider them a criteria for relations between India and Russia," he said addressing the media. "We have full resp

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