Why Ukraine war has no winners
May 16, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Russia expects grain harvest of 130 million tonnes of grain, including 87 million tonnes of wheat – “an all-time high in&...
EU stumbles over Russian oil slick
May 14, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán (R) with President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Budapest, May 10, 2022
The European U...
Indo-Pacific strategy adrift in an illusion
May 14, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
US President Joe Biden and leaders of Association of Southeast Asian Nations at a special summit, Washington, May 12, 2022
The Chinese daily Glob...
Assad renews Syria’s bonds with Iran
May 10, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi (right) in talks with visiting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Tehran, May 8, 2022
The unannounced arr...
Saudi Arabia flexing its geopolitical oil power
May 9, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Oil treatment plant in Yarakta oil field, Irkutsk, Russia. Ban on Russian oil risks sky-high prices and inflationary shock (File photo)
Som...
Make hay while sun shines - Indian, Chinese ways
May 9, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Russian liquefied natural gas tanker at a terminal in Tianjin, China
Europe and Russia are entering a fateful competition over energy trade. Euro...
Putin warns the US to back off in Ukraine
April 29, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The Western narrative of the two-month old war in Ukraine imbued with the rhetoric of “democracy versus autocracy,” has dramatically chang...
US recruits Israel against Russia
April 26, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Israel’s Iron Dome missile shield (File photo)
For more than one reason, the US President Joe Biden’s call with Israeli Pri...
US narrative won’t survive defeat in Donbass
April 25, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) with visiting UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, New Delhi, April 22, 2022
An extraordinary thing abo...
Russia pushes back western sanctions, revs up operation in...
April 21, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Russian special operation in Donbass entered new phase
The Russian President Vladimir Putin said defiantly on Monday that the western sanctions h...
Pakistan stirs up Pashtun hornet’s nest
April 19, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Afghans protest against Pakistani air strikes, Khost, April 16, 2022
The Pakistani air strikes on Saturday on the eastern Afghanistan provinces o...
Battle for Mariupol is ending
April 18, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Russian forces take control of strategic city pf Mariupol
The Russian Ministry of Defence offer of surrender terms to the personnel of the extrem...
Russia’s Ukraine operation has no deadline
April 14, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Fall is imminent of Azovstal iron and steel works, Mariupol, where thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and NATO officers are trapped.
In his first ex...
Asian fault lines of Biden’s war on Russia
April 12, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
As relations with Tokyo sour, Moscow beefs up the coastal defence systems on the Kuril Islands that Japan claims as its own
The tremors of the Un...
Israel reaches out to China, again
April 8, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The Bay Port at Haifa on the Mediterranean, will be operated by Shanghai International Port Group for a 25-year period
The phone call to th...
Fake news in Kiev heralds cruel April
April 5, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Ukrainian troops prepare to fight Russian forces in Donbass
An indignant Moscow has angrily demanded a United Nations Security Council meeting on...
Donbass still remains key battleground
April 4, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Chechen soldiers deployed to city of Mariupol, Mar. 31, 2022
The Russian General Staff gave an in-depth briefing on March 30 on the military stra...
China’s diplomacy on a roll in Kabul
March 31, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (R) with Acting Prime Minister of Interim Government Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Acting F...
US resets the containment of Iran
March 29, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (R) welcomes UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan at the Negev Summit, March 27...
Biden’s reality check in Europe
March 28, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Russian General Staff dy head Gen. Sergey Rudskoy during briefing on special operation in Ukraine, Moscow, Mar. 25, 2022
The takeaway from the US...
Biden wings his way to the borderlands of Ukraine
March 25, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
US President Biden (L) and Polish President Andrzej Duda (R)
By a queer coincidence, former US Secretary of State Madeline Albright passed away w...
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Although the elections just held in four States and one Union Territory in India were provincial, they had immense national importance because national issues and national conditions impinged on them...
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