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Syria: The Russians are leaving, or are they?

Lt General S A Hasnain, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM (Bar), VSM (Bar) (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Russian President Putin’s decision to pull out his military resources from Syria has been received with much skepticism and analysts are pulling out all the stops to examine the decision from every angle. Till late the Russian Air Force was using i

April 02, 2016 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Islamic State, Daesh, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria

The Ukraine Crisis and The Challenges Ahead

Dr Harinder Sekhon

A ceasefire deal to end the fighting in Eastern Ukraine was reached in Minsk after a marathon session of negotiations running into almost seventeen hours amongst the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, Germany and France. This seeks to end a year of bitter f

February 16, 2015 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia

India and Russia: Putin Visit to Boost Ties

Dr Nivedita Das Kundu

The India-Russia Strategic partnership was formed in the year 2000. Russia was the first country with whom India established a strategic partnership and in the year 2010 during the 11th Summit, India and Russia elevated their relationship to a “Spe

December 10, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia

India Must Choose the Right Strategic Partner

Mohan Kumar S

Current Scenario It has been rightly stated that, as a nation we can change our friends, but not our neighbours. We have been destined to live in the most dangerous part of the world with two nuclear armed countries, China and Pakistan in o

September 19, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy, US, Russia

Ukraine Developments: US/ EU Attempt to Stretch Europe’s Frontiers?

Amb Kanwal Sibal

Developments in Ukraine should be understood as part of US/EU's project of stretching the frontiers of "Europe" eastwards as far as possible in order either to eventually topple the present Russian political and economic order from within and make Ru

March 13, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy, Europe, US, Russia

The Stakes in Ukraine

Amb Prabhat P Shukla

As the situation in Ukraine deteriorates, foreign powers are getting overtly involved. Russian forces are already deployed in the Crimea, and there is the live danger that they will also enter eastern Ukraine. It is important to try and understand wh

March 06, 2014 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia

President Putin in India

Amb Prabhat P Shukla

The thirteenth Indo-Russian Summit was a fleeting affair, with President Putin spending less than twenty-four hours in Delhi. It came as the stakes in the extended neighbourhood are growing higher – Afghanistan, Iran, and the broader West Asian reg

January 14, 2013 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia

Still Comrades after all these years

Amb Kanwal Sibal

Russia was the first country with which India established a strategic partnership in 2000 when Vladimir Putin became President and reversed the drift in ties under Boris Yeltsin when Moscow veered westwards and lost interest in its Soviet-era friends

December 28, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia

The Return of Putin and Indo-Russian Relations

Brig Vinod Anand, Senior Fellow, VIF

The Boris Yeltsin era, that is the decade of 1990s, had led to the decline of Russian power not only at the global level but also in its near periphery. The economic dividend which Russia expected due to its accommodation with the West never material

June 12, 2012 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia

India's relations with the US and Russia

Amb Kanwal Sibal

During the Cold War when US and the Soviet Union were acknowledged as superpowers, with monstrous nuclear arsenals at their command, vying with each other internationally, with competing ideologies and alliances, making a comparative analysis of Indi

June 10, 2011 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia