Russia

Has it ever occurred to you what could be the US’s possible end-game in the present scenario?

National Security Advisor Ajit Doval on Thursday met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov as they discussed a slew of important topics, including trade and economic ties, between the two countries in Moscow.

The US Ambassador to Georgia has been trying hard to drag Georgia into the Ukrainian crisis to take the West’s side. This has been under two assumptions: 1. Georgia does not enjoy a good relationship with Russia post 2008 Georgian War; and 2. The EU had promised Georgia candidate status in the Union. One naturally […]

NEW DELHI: German Ambassador to India Walter J Lindner said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a lot of calculating errors in attacking Ukraine. “President Putin thought NATO would be divided into two blocks,” Lindner, who is set to retire as the German envoy to India, said while addressing the media at […]

How is the world responding to China’s newly unleashed Wolf Warrior diplomacy? To be honest, the West, which is just about waking up to this phenomenon now has so far been ‘shocked’ or ‘surprised’, but to the smaller and weaker neighbours of China, this nature of projection has resulted in a certain amount of stress […]

NEW DELHI: Union minister of commerce and industry Piyush Goyal on Wednesday confirmed that India will continue to export surplus wheat to friendly countries, especially those who are in dire need of the food grain. “India will continue to export wheat to the governments which are in serious need of wheat, which are very friendly […]

NEW DELHI: Highlighting the Ukraine crisis, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar called for United Nations Security Council reforms at the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meet on Thursday. “BRICS has repeatedly affirmed respect for sovereign equality, territorial integrity and international law. We must live up to these commitments. The knock-on effects of the Ukraine conflict have […]

  Is Russia in trouble? It is. In a manner of speaking, Vladimir Putin, till the start of 2022 had about him all the signs of a master strategist and a ruthlessly efficient man – a leader that had clear portions of the kind of boldness that China lacked, or the intelligence that the West […]

  NEW DELHI: Germany has ruled out the possibility of expansion of the elite power block G7 at the moment, German Minister of State, Federal Foreign Office, Dr Tobias Lindner said on Thursday. “Honestly, I’m not sure. It’s not the debate at the moment, to be honest. It’s the same like looking, for instance, at […]

NEW DELHI: Despite the European Union (EU) asking energy companies not to comply with Russia’s demand to be paid in rubles for its natural gas, four European gas buyers have reportedly paid in rubles as President Vladimir Putin demanded. In a report published in Bloomberg, a person close to Russian gas giant Gazprom had opined […]