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
MOSCOW: Russia has become the first country in the world to register a vaccine against COVID-19, President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday during a government meeting. The president also asked Health Minister Mikhail Murashko to keep him informed about the vaccine, while at the same time noting that he knows “it works quite effectively” and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Tiff between friends is the question, after it was reported that Russia had postponed the delivery of more batches of the S-400 defence missile system to China. It came in the wake of the Russian authorities accusing an Arctic researcher of treason, alleging he had handed over classified data to China. India may […]Read More
MOSCOW: On Monday, during a speech marking the 67th anniversary of the end of the Korean War (1950-53), North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said that the country’s nuclear weapons are a “reliable, effective” deterrent and were a solid guarantee for the nation’s security, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Kim stated that North […]Read More
NEW DELHI: What happens when a close friend is close to your main adversary? Delhi is yet to find an answer as it continues its endeavours to find common ground with Moscow about its concerns in the Indian Ocean and elsewhere. “India is very interested in stability in Eurasia and we would very much like […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “China doesn’t have a veto on Russia’s arms relationship with India and will be able to deliver the S-400 air defence system in a relatively short period of time,” Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow tells StratNews Global Associate Editor Amitabh P.Revi in a conversation along with Nandan Unnikrishnan, Distinguished Fellow, ORF. Dr Trenin […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The coronavirus and the Ladakh clashes have forced the government to “go virtual” or put off high level meetings but not events involving Russia. A case in point was the RIC summit which went off virtually (though not without some warnings by India that it may not attend). Though the BRICS and SCO […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The reference to the standoff with China in Ladakh was unmistakable in External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s remarks at the virtual summit of RIC (Russia-India-China) foreign ministers on Tuesday. He said: “‘This special meeting reiterates our belief in the time-tested principles of international relations. But the challenge today is not just one of concepts and norms, […]Read More
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