Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the close and decades-old bilateral relations between their two countries during talks in Moscow on Tuesday. India and Russia are linked by a “privileged strategic partnership,” Putin said at the meeting in the Kremlin. Trade between the two nations had increased by 60% in the past year. According to the Indian Ministry of Commerce, it reached the equivalent of $65 billion, with Indian imports of oil and fertilizer from Russia accounting for the largest share. “Every Indian feels in his heart that Russia is a frie…