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The Russia-Ukraine War 2022: A Point of No Return?
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

On 24 February 2022, President Vladimir Putin announced ‘special military operation,’ the beginning of land, sea, and air offensive against Ukraine. The Western Pundits had forecast that the war under the onslaught of Russian famed military and t

September 28, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Russia, Nuclear, Referendum, Ukraine, EU, Donetsk, Luhansk, Donbas
Russia Africa Relations
Steven Gruzd

In this episode of VIF podcast, Steven Gruzd from the South African Institute of International Affairs discusses with Samir Bhattacharya, Research Associate at the Vivekananda International Foundation on the current contours of Russia-Africa relation

September 27, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Africa, Russia, Podcast, Ukraine Crisis, African Union, Wagner
Remembering Gorbachev
Amb Rajiv Sikri

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” (William Shakespeare) Mikhail Gorbachev’s passing away on 30th August has compelled observers around the world to assess his place in history. For t

September 12, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Nuclear, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Yeltsin, Moscow, CPSU, Gorbachev, perestroika, KGB, Khrushchev, oligarchy, reform, Stalin, uskorine
Gorbachev’s Legacy: A Reformer Who Lost the Game
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and the last president of the Soviet Union, passed away in Moscow on 30 August 2022 at the age of 91. He was no ordinary leader. He was the principal architect of the end of

September 05, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Russia, Putin, Ukraine, glasnost, Gorbachev, Marxist-Leninist, perestroika, USSR
The man who brought down the Iron Curtain
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has frequently been quoted as saying that the breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical disaster of the twentieth century. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last President of the USSR, who passed away in Mosco

September 02, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin, mikhail gorbachev, nobel peace prize, warsaw pact
Belarusian Dynamics in the Context of Russia-Ukraine Crisis
Varuna Shankar

Introduction
Belarus is a European nation with a population of 10million and runs a 1000km long southern border with Ukraine. The political character of the government is a unitary presidential constitutional republic with capital at Mins

September 02, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Putin, Belarus, Lukashenka, Elections Economic relations, Protest
A Way out from the Dangers of Nuclear Leakage and Fallout from Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant
Gautam Sen

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in south-eastern Ukraine is in the crosshairs of the Russia-Ukraine conflict since March this year. The power station, largest in Europe and one of the three presently operative nuclear power generation sources of U

September 01, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Russia, Ukraine, UN, Fall Out, nuclear plant
Russia questions Switzerland’s Policy of Neutrality
Prof Rajaram Panda

The Ukraine crisis has dramatically altered how nation states view their foreign policies and conduct relations with other nations. For most part of the post-War years when the world was divided into two camps on ideological grounds each lead by the

August 31, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, sanctions, World war, Ukraine, Switzerland, neutrality
The Russia-Ukraine Conflict and its Implications for the Environment
Heena Samant, Research Associate, VIF

Introduction
The Russia-Ukraine war is re-shaping the world. The war which began on 24th February 2022 has resulted in a fast-moving refugee crisis, unprecedented sanctions on Russia, and a re-shuffle of global relationships.August 10, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, genocide, Crisis, Environment, Nuclear threat, Ecocide, impacts, Generations, Explosions
Russia-Ukraine Conflict and International Developments: An Indian Perspective
Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

(This is an updated version of the presentation made at an international conference organised by National Institute of International Strategy, CASS, Beijing on “Russia-Ukraine Conflict and International Developments” on 26 July 2022) The Russi

August 01, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, India, Russia, NATO, Ukraine, energy crisis, Food Crisis
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