”I will convey to him (Russian President Vladimir Putin) the high priority that India attaches to its partnership with Russia and the benefits that this partnership has brought to our two peoples,” Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh

” India today is a country that looks confidently towards the future and enjoys deserved importance and influence in the world,” Russian President Vladimir Putin

” We are so near that if ever you call us from the mountain tops we will appear at your side,” Former Russian President Nikita Khrushchev in 1955