Balancing Act
The most revealing aspect of President Vladimir Putin’s latest visit to Beijing was not the choreography of friendship, but the limits of it.
The most revealing aspect of President Vladimir Putin’s latest visit to Beijing was not the choreography of friendship, but the limits of it.
China and Russia projected deeper strategic unity in Beijing as Putin and Xi discussed BRICS expansion, global tensions and the future balance of world power.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend the BRICS summit scheduled for September 12-13 in New Delhi, a Kremlin aide said.
Recent times have seen “strongmen” leaders like Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Mohammad Bin Salman, Paul Kagame, Kim Jong Un etc.
President Donald Trump said the United States “could” consider sanctions relief for Russia as part of efforts to end the Ukraine war, while signalling frustration with Iran’s nuclear negotiations and warning that Tehran “cannot have nuclear weapons.”
The Russian President is coming to India on a two-day state visit, his first since the war in Ukraine.
The national capital is under an extraordinary, multi-layered security cover ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two-day visit to India, beginning December 4. The high-profile visit comes exactly 25 days after a terror attack in Delhi near the Red Fort that had sent shockwaves across the nation.
India criticised a joint article by Western envoys on Ukraine, calling it unacceptable, as President Putin reaches New Delhi for a two-day summit with PM Modi.
President Vladimir Putin has threatened to "cut off Ukraine from sea," after Kyiv's underwater drone strike on two tankers of Russia's "shadow fleet" in the Black Sea last week.
Russian President Vladimir Putin was briefed that the Russian forces had taken control of Krasnoarmeysk in the Donetsk region and Volchansk in the Kharkov region, the Kremlin said in a statement.
