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Padma Rao Sundarji | The post-Merkel Germany India and world will face

During Angela Merkel’s 16 years in office, the world’s most powerful woman leader faced one crisis after another

01 Oct 2021 2:43 AM

This is the second time that PM Modi will be chairing the BRICS Summit, the first being the Goa Summit in 2016. (PTI)

Stage set for virtual BRICS Summit today

BRICS has committed to combating terrorism, including the cross-border movement of terrorists, and terrorism financing networks

09 Sep 2021 6:33 AM

The meeting will be attended by the President of Brazil Jair Bolsanaro, President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of China Xi Jinping, and President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa. Representational Image. (Twitter)

Dealing with China a top priority, says S. Jaishankar ahead of Brics summit

With the situation in Afghanistan likely to be discussed prominently at Thursday’s Brics Summit

07 Sep 2021 6:45 AM

The consistent stand of India, whether it was that of the BJP-led NDA or the Congress-led UPA, was that there are no “good Taliban” or “bad Taliban”, and that the Taliban as Islamic terrorists were all bad. Representational Image. (PTI)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | India’s real problem on Taliban is its Pak links

India’s first real brush with the Taliban came during the December 1999 Indian Airlines IC-814 hijacking

24 Aug 2021 4:19 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin. (AFP Photo)

Shobhaa De | Putin is everywhere… How super sexy is ‘new’ Russia?

Putin’s 'New Russia' is sexy, glamourous, flashy and trashy!

07 Aug 2021 10:41 AM

Mohan Guruswamy | Christmas ’91: The day Red Flag was lowered

For most of that decade, Russia teetered on the brink with Yeltsin’s mood swings worsened by the alcoholic haze he was in most of the time

24 Dec 2020 12:00 AM

President Vladimir Putin (right) would host Belarus's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow "in the next couple of weeks". (AFP)

Putin to host Belarus' Alexander Lukashenko in Moscow

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will visit Minsk on Thursday, after weeks of protests against a disputed presidential election

02 Sep 2020 3:54 PM

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. (AFP File)

Kremlin dismisses Navalny poison claims as calls mount for probe

Russia has not opened investigation into the poisoning yet and Peskov said there was 'no pretext' for this until the toxin is identified

26 Aug 2020 1:48 PM

File photo Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny. (AP)

Kremlin critic Navalny on flight from Russia to Germany in coma

The Kremlin denied resistance to the transfer was political, saying that it was purely a medical decision

22 Aug 2020 9:38 AM

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that a coronavirus vaccine developed in the country has been registered for use and one of his daughters has already been inoculated. (PTI Photo)

Russia has developed coronavirus vaccine, claims Putin, says his daughter received dose

Russian authorities have said that medical workers, teachers and other risk groups will be the first to be inoculated

11 Aug 2020 3:43 PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit India in October this year for the Annual Bilateral Summit between the two countries. (AFP)

Russia’s Putin expected to visit India in October

India has time-tested strategic ties with Russia especially in the defence sector but Russia also has close ties with China

07 Aug 2020 5:36 PM

UK report fails to find out if Russia meddled in Brexit vote

The long-anticipated report cast Russia as a hostile power which posed a significant threat to Britain and the West across a range of fronts

21 Jul 2020 11:33 PM

Russia's ambassador to Britain Andrei Kelin rejects virus vaccine hacking claims. (Photo- BBC Interview)

Russia's UK ambassador rejects coronavirus vaccine hacking allegations

Andrei Kelin said that there was no sense in the allegations made last week by the United States, Britain and Canada

19 Jul 2020 3:33 PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin shows his passport to a member of a local electoral commission as he arrives to cast his ballot in a nationwide vote on constitutional reforms at a polling station in Moscow on July 1, 2020. (AFP)

Putin could stay in power till 2036 as per the new constitution reforms

In a seven day long voting, Russians overwhelmingly approved the package for constitutional changes put forward by president Vladimir Putin

02 Jul 2020 8:37 AM

President Donald Trump, right, shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin, left. (AP)

Trump and his two Russia paradox

When it comes to Russia, the Trump administration just can’t seem to make up its mind

01 Jul 2020 12:34 PM

A Russian traffic police officer wearing a face mask and protective gloves stands in front of a municipal vehicle cleaning and disinfecting a street at Vorobyovy Hills observation point in Moscow. (AFP)

Russia coronavirus cases rise to 87,147, surpass China’s

Putin postpones annual parade marking the 1945 defeat of Nazi army in World War II due to the growing outbreak

27 Apr 2020 2:33 PM

Putin has said on several recent occasions that Poland bears responsibility for the outbreak of the war, deepening tensions between the two Slavic nations. (Photo: File)

Polish PM accuses Putin of lying about WWII, says attempt to 'conceal' Russia's issue

'President Putin has lied about Poland on numerous occasions, and he has always done it deliberately,' Prime Minister Morawiecki said.

30 Dec 2019 9:11 AM

Clocking in at four hours and twenty-five minutes, the question-and-answer session was one of the longest ever held by Putin in a format that has become an annual end-of-year tradition for the Russian leader. (Photo: File)

Vladimir Putin hints at leaving Russian presidency in 2024

Putin indicated he was in favour of removing the word 'successive' from a clause in the constitution.

20 Dec 2019 9:35 AM

Russia decided on Thursday to contest its ban from major sporting events over doping violations, as President Vladimir Putin slammed its sidelining as unfair and insisted athletes should be able to compete under the national flag. (Photo: AP)

Russia to contest doping ban, Vladimir Putin defiant

WADA on December 10 banned Russia for four years from major global events, including the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

19 Dec 2019 7:45 PM

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that Moscow had grounds to appeal a decision by the World Anti-Doping Agency to bar Russia from major sporting events, a move he said violated the Olympic charter. (Photo: AP)

Vladimir Putin says Moscow could appeal Russia sports ban

Russia was banned from the world’s top sporting events for four years earlier on Monday, including the next summer and winter Olympics.

10 Dec 2019 1:17 PM

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