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Russia’s relations with many countries may have collapsed since the invasion of Ukraine — but ties with India are blossoming. It sounds like a match made in heaven (or hell, depending on your taste): An oil-hungry developing economy, sucking up all that spare crude sanctioned from Moscow’s traditional export markets. Russia’s share of India’s energy imports has gone from next to nothing to 25% during the past year, according to Mint, a local business newspaper. But the course of true love never did run smooth.