By Biman Mukherji Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit India in December, a trip that could test New Delhi’s delicate balancing act between Moscow and Washington amid escalating pressure from the United States over oil and weapons purchases from the sanctioned country. Analysts say the visit is likely to deepen India’s defiance of […]
Read MoreNEW YORK: Special US envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump to allow the US and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the 3 1/2-year war. “We were able […]
Read MoreRussian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Monday for an “immediate” end to fighting between Israel and Iran in a phone conversation, the Kremlin said. “The leaders called for an immediate end to hostilities and the settlement of contentious issues, including those related to Iran’s nuclear programme, exclusively through political and […]
Read MoreEU chief Ursula von der Leyen has ordered top EU officials to skip a series of meetings in Hungary amid ire over Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Brussels said on Monday. Orban – whose country this month took over the rotating presidency of the body representing the European Union’s 27 […]
Read MoreIndian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Moscow on a two-day state visit. On the first day of the visit, he discussed various aspects of the Ukraine war with President Vladimir Putin. Prime Minister Modi said that many of the Indians in Russia were forced to participate in the war. Modi also requested Putin to […]
Read MoreMOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Kazakhstan on Thursday, part of his efforts to cement ties with the ex-Soviet neighbor and major economic partner in the midst of tensions with the West over Ukraine. Putin’s talks in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana follow his trip last month to Kyrgyzstan for a summit of ex-Soviet […]
Read MoreRussian President Vladimir Putin will meet Xi Jinping in China this week in a bid to deepen a partnership forged between the United States’ two biggest strategic competitors. Putin will attend the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Oct. 17-18, his first trip outside the former Soviet Union since the Hague-based International Criminal Court […]
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