NEW DELHI: India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla has a full brief as he sits down in Moscow for talks with his counterpart Igor Morgulov on Wednesday and Thursday. Priority could be fixing dates for a Narendra Modi-Vladimir Putin summit. It could not be held last year owing to the pandemic but with vaccinations now […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The anti-government demonstrations in many cities all over Russia are just that, directed at a government that is seen to have failed in maintaining living standards and stabilizing prices, says Nandan Unnikrishnan, research scholar on Russia at the Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation. In an exclusive chat with StratNews Global, Unnikrishnan argues that the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Let the Biden administration publicly announce its plans but we don’t recognise unilateral sanctions, Russia’s Ambassador to India Nikolay R. Kudashev has said on the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) imposed on NATO member Turkey for purchase of Russia’s S-400 missile defence system. At a press briefing, the envoy said “India’s […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Russia’s 25-year deal for a Sudanese port on the Red Sea is a “great place to give historic ties with India a little more meat on the skeleton,” says Maxim A. Suchkov, Senior Fellow and Associate Professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). This week, Russia announced an agreement to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Armenia and Azerbaijan are blaming each other for air and artillery attacks on each other’s forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region that began on the morning of September 27. As both of them have “rearmed with highly sophisticated military hardware over the last 15 years, they can strike at targets deep inside each […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Russia would like to avoid the lack of trust, stability between our separate, independent partners India and China,” says Roman Babushkin, the country’s Deputy Chief of Mission. “We’re happy they decided to use our platform (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Defence, Foreign Ministers meet in Moscow) to discuss their current issues and this is encouraging,” he […]Read More
NEW DELHI: With tensions rising on the India-China Line of Actual Control, all eyes are on External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar who is in Moscow for the SCO foreign-ministers summit. He is expected to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on resolving the standoff in Ladakh. Hopes of a breakthrough are muted given […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Accusations of poisoning have dogged President Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin for some time now, the latest being the popular and charismatic Opposition Leader Aleksei Navalny. He fell ill on a flight to Siberia – after having drunk tea at the airport – was first hospitalised in Siberia before being transferred to Berlin […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “Russia will not jump into the China column” in any Delhi-Beijing confrontation, Professor Rajan Menon, the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in Political Science, Colin Powell School for Civic & Global Leadership at the City College of New York tells StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P. Revi. While there is a strong interest […]Read More
NEW DELHI: President Vladimir Putin on August 11 announced Russia is the first country to give regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine, which has “passed all the necessary checks”. The ‘ Sputnik V’ vaccine, named after the world’s first satellite launched by the Soviet Union, has not yet completed its phase-three trial, which involves wide-scale testing. […]Read More
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