NEW START: Putin’s “win-win” with Trump
ahmed sabirBy M. K. Bhadrakumar The Russian proposal of October 20 for a simple one-year extension beyond February when the NEW START treaty expires, has received a curt reply from Washington…
Arc of instability on Russia’s periphery
By M. K. Bhadrakumar An arc of instability has appeared on Russia's peripheral regions to the west and southwest Belarus, Nagorno-Karabakh and Kyrgyzstan. These regions are vital to Russia's national…
Russia blasts US’ Indo-Pacific strategy
By M. K. Bhadrakumar The meeting between the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Moscow on September 11 took place at a particularly delicate…
How Russia built a channel to the Taliban, once an enemy
The recent assessment that Russia paid bounties to the insurgents to attack US troops stunned many, but officials said the Kremlin's outreach began almost a decade ago By Mujib Mashal…
Improved Russian-Pakistani relations will help Moscow balance the new bipolarity
By Andrew Korybko There's a growing consensus among Russia's leading experts that International Relations are increasingly characterized by what they've termed the “new bipolarity” that's emerging out of World War…
Two major Russian arms deals likely next week, weaponry worth $15 bn in Moscow pipeline
By Ajai Shukla On Wednesday, the ministry of defence (MoD) will clear the purchase of one, and possibly two, Russian weapons systems, taking orders in the Moscow pipeline to above…
Deciphering the March 5 agreement in 10 articles
By Sedat Ergin One more time, there was no break with tradition. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin took the tension under control with the agreement they…
The online bomb hoaxes against Russia are clear cases of cyber terrorism
By Andrew Korybko A new form of terrorism has been waged against Russia over the past several months through online bomb hoaxes spread across the country by anonymous email services…
Putin’s hour is at hand
By Paul Craig Roberts Vladimir Putin is the most impressive leader on the world stage. He survived and arose from a Russia corrupted by Washington and Israel during the Yeltsin…
The Indo-‘Israeli’ trans-Arabian corridor will push Russia closer to Pakistan
India slaps Iran yet again Sputnik reported earlier this month that “Israel” and India shared documents pertaining to the former's Trans-Arabian Corridor for connecting the Eastern Mediterranean and Afro-Asian (“Indian”)…