Articles

Lessons of Ukraine War, and Applicability on India

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Since it began, the Russia-Ukraine has thrown up an overabundance of geopolitical, geo-economic and geostrategic lessons. It is humbling to note that the lessons of 2021 were in total variance with those of 2022. India has learnt significant geostra....

January 03, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , India , Russia , War , Peace , Ukraine , Lessons , strategic ambiguity , economic interdependence

Indo-Russian Relations in the Changing Geopolitical Environment

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF Commentary

Geopolitical Environment

India-Russia relations have stood the test of time for several decades. But they are under considerable pressure now due to the ongoing multi-dimensional global crisis, which has impacted the two countries diff....

December 12, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Commentary , Russia , Indo-Pacific , QUAD , Economic , Ukraine , military , Geopolitical environment

Russia’s Ukraine War and the Concept of Balance of Power since Congress of Vienna

Abhishek Das Article

Prologue

From Congress of Vienna to the beginning of the First World War; Europe survived for nearly a century without a major war like the one it saw ended with the Battle of Waterloo or the one it would see starting in 1914. During this....

December 07, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , Russia , NATO , Ukraine , Cold War , Crimea , balance of power , Great Wars

Ukraine War: When will it End?

Amb K P Fabian Article

As of now, unfortunately, we cannot see any sign of an early end to the unfolding tragedy that started on 24th February 2022 when the Russian invasion began. By now according to estimates made by the Pentagon each side might have sustained about 100....

November 23, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy , Russia , Article , India , Nuclear , Oil , G-20 , Washington , Crimea bridge , Nord Stream , Zaporizhzhia

The Russia-Ukraine War 2022: A Point of No Return?

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

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 Article

“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 Article

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

P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

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 Article

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