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In some cases, at prices around $30 a barrel cheaper than brent crude. injanuary and february, india didn't import any oil from russia. not a drop. but since then, they have been hoovering it up with russia there second biggest source of oil in may. to put this in perspective, some industry experts predict that india will buy more of the kremlin�*s crude in five months this year than in the whole of last year. here's our man in mumbai, nikhil inamdar, to give us a picture from the ground. india shares deep and historic ties with russia and has taken a resolutely middle of the road position w...

Placation, because i didn't want to rock the boat, as it were, again, you pick your battles, so placation seemed the best route if i was unable to escape her clutches. >> how if at all did ms. heard try to support you in abstaining from the drugs and alcohol as she requested? >> well, verbally -- and she had been quite clear verbally, and pretty bullish and bruteish about wanting me to -- telling me that i needed to stop

Invade. and repeatedly about other activities that then transpired. i do think though that this does reflect a russian sensitivity, if you will, to the threshold that would be crossed if they used tactical nuclear weapons or any nuclear weapons, noting that they have a lot of options in the smaller yield nuclear weapons that they could use. but i think that this is a recognition that that would really be an extraordinary threshold to cross, those countries that are wavering or, you know, abstaining from boats in the u.n. and trying to avoid having to observe all sanctions and so forth, i think...

Of scale for a permanent security council member. so we did have far more votes against the resolution as well compared to the past two, and we heard from china, ethiopia, latin american countries, like venezuela, cuba, iran, syria, others, you know, using this attack that this was a politcised resolution that we should wait until there is an investigation of the claims to take this kind of measure against russia. then we did see abstentions from india and the united arab emirate, so they again are abstaining on this resolution. so a very interesting divide here in the un indeed. it's a fascin...

The u.n. is an even bigger humiliation. will it change the tide of the war and how he fights the war in ukraine, unlikely. but it is a significant message to him. cnn has seen a letter that russia sent to some members of the ux n. warning them to vote against it rather than abstaining and i'll give you one example of one country, we don't know if this country received the letter but india, a big military partner with russia in the past, last week sergei love rov met top officials the same day that liz trust meets with top officials. and india decides not to vote, it abstains so it doesn't give...