India has sharply reduced orders for defence equipment from Russia and now buys more from Western suppliers. Source: Bloomberg Details: Last year, Russia supplied 36% of India's armaments, down from 76% in 2009.

India has sharply reduced its orders for military equipment from Russia and is now buying more from Western suppliers. This is a significant policy shift for a country that has traditionally depended on arms from Moscow,

India, the world's biggest importer of weapons, has been buying less and less from Russia. Only 36 per cent of India's arms imports came from Russia last year, down from 76 per cent in 2009