Vladimir Putin

Welcoming Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to hail India for its independent foreign policy, Congress said that the foundation stone of a strong foreign policy was laid by independent India’s first Prime minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

Different mindsets, too much mistrust, a host of unresolved issues, significant socio-cultural hangovers, and other unknowns – is the collective baggage that contenders of global multipolarity carry on their back.

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 […]

  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: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the evolving situation in Ukraine over a phone call on Monday. President Putin briefed PM Modi on the status of negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian teams, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a release. “Prime Minister Modi welcomed the ongoing negotiations […]

NEW DELHI: As Russia launched an attacked on Ukraine on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a telephonic conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and appealed for an “immediate cessation of violence”. A statement from the Prime Minister’s Office said President Putin briefed PM Modi about the recent developments regarding Ukraine. PM reiterated his long-standing […]