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01 April 2020When Indian immigrants thrived in southern Russia
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25 February 2020The ban on Russia in international events will be a dampener for aspiring young athletes
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Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm