Just in: Russia has announced that it look into declassifying files on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. External Affairs minister Sushma Swaraj contacted her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov requesting Russia to declassify the Bose files. Lavrov has told Swaraj that Russia will consider the request.


This comes a week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that that his government will start declassifying the secret files related to Bose from January 23 next year, raising hopes about solving the seven-decade-old mystery about his disappearance.


Modi told Netaji's family members during a meeting in New Delhi that he would also urge foreign governments to declassify files on Bose available with them by writing to them and personally taking up with their leaders, beginning with Russia in December.


Conspiracy theorists say that Bose may have been in the USSR after 1945, after the WWII ended.


Pic: PM Modi with family members of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at 7 Race Course Road on October 14.