Elite Warning
For more than two decades, Vladimir Putin’s compact with Russia’s business elite was straightforward: accumulate wealth, but leave politics to the Kremlin.
For more than two decades, Vladimir Putin’s compact with Russia’s business elite was straightforward: accumulate wealth, but leave politics to the Kremlin.
India on Tuesday conveyed to Russia its strong concern over the missile attack on commercial vessel MV Golden Leo when it was departing the port of Odisa in Ukraine in which at least four Indian nationals were killed.
A dormitory burns. A supermarket burns. An apartment block burns. This is what drones and ballistic missiles do to a capital city. Kyiv counted its damage again this morning.
The offer to let Ukraine produce Patriot interceptor missiles under licence marks more than another military commitment.
Patience is running thin at petrol pumps across Russia. Hours long queues have become routine, even in Moscow, as drone strikes chip away at the country's refining capacity.
Showcasing Odisha’s globally acclaimed disaster management framework and its growing leadership in climate resilience, Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Thursday inaugurated the BRICS Disaster Risk Reduction Working Group (DRRG) Technical Meeting in Puri, calling for stronger international cooperation to tackle the growing challenges posed by climate change and natural disasters.
The visit of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio to India has exposed a reality that both Washington and New Delhi increasingly understand but rarely talk of openly: the India-US relationship is no longer driven by sentiment, democratic rhetoric or shared slogans about the “free world”.
Authoritarian systems rarely collapse in the dramatic fashion imagined by outsiders.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the BRICS summit scheduled for September 12-13 in New Delhi, a Kremlin aide said.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said it had sent a note to all foreign diplomatic missions and international organisations accredited with the ministry, urging them to ensure the evacuation of personnel from Kyiv.
