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...
India, US have different priorities
March 24, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Prime Minister Modi and President Biden (File photo)
An extraordinary week has passed for the Modi government’s dalliance with the Quad. Ca...
China sees parallel between Ukraine, Taiwan
March 22, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
On the evening of 18 March, President Xi Jinping (R) had a video call with US President Joe Biden at the request of the latter.
The Chinese stanc...
US to remove IRGC from terror blacklist
March 21, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Gas flares from Iranian oil production platform in Persian Gulf (File photo)
Axios reported earlier this week citing Israeli officials and U...
Russian forces double down to complete operation
March 16, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Turning point: Russian special forces have entered the strategic industrial port city of Mariupol on the Black Sea coast
After substantially degr...
Holy wars have no timeline
March 15, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
An injured European who volunteered to fight in Ukraine being evacuated at the sprawling base at Yavoriv 25 kms from Polish border following a preda...
India should quit Quad now!
March 15, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Prime Minister Modi chaired a meeting of Cabinet Committee on Security and top officials, New Delhi, March 13, 2022
Hedging between superp...
Zelensky rubbishes Biden’s war on Russia
March 11, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Happy hour: US President Biden (R) meets with Ukraine President Zelensky in the Oval Office, Washington, September 2011
What was the need f...
Ukraine faces defeat
March 10, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
The delegations of Ukraine (L) and Russia (R) at the third round of peace talks, Brest Region, Belarus, March 7, 2022
Belying the predictions of...
China’s signposts post-Ukraine
March 10, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
China’s Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi gave a press conference for the Fifth session of China’s 13th National People’s Con...
Russia’s Ukraine operations enter new phase
March 8, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Amphibious assault ships of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
Following last two days’ lull in fighting, Russia’s ‘speci...
Russia hits back on “sanctions from hell”
March 7, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
An innocuous tweet from Russia’s Permanent Representative to International Organisations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov late this week said that he m...
The EU eyes new horizons
March 4, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced in Bundestag a big leap in armament programme, Berlin, Feb 27, 2022
Three developments in the past week h...
Why Middle East won’t join US in isolating Russia
March 3, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin and then-Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in 2019. Photo: AFP / Adem...
We’re Europeans, Christians, Whites!
March 2, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Ukrainian ‘refugees’ wait at a train station in Zahony, Hungary, a border town with Ukraine, February 26, 2022 (Photo: AP)
Raci...
India shouldn’t miss world war pointer
March 1, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a phone conversation on February 24, 2022
The transition of India&rsquo...
Ukraine’s hybrid war is mutating
February 26, 2022
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By: M. K. Bhadrakumar
Ukraine president Zelensky gave a video address after midnight on February 25, 2022 disclosing a Russian offer of talks
The first signs of t...
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