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The attrition of Russia under Putin
Although Russian President Vladimir Putin has devised cunning and subtle strategies to sustain predominantly “voluntary” recruitment for his war of...
Five wounded in Kyiv by largest drone attack yet on Ukraine, officials...
25 Nov 2023 4:01 PM ISTThe attack began hitting different districts of Kyiv in the early hours of Saturday, with more waves coming as the sun came up. The air raid warning...
Chef’s table: What’s cooking in Kremlin? A mix of propaganda, paranoia
11 Nov 2023 7:00 PM ISTThe instructions for making his “scrambled eggs using three eggs” orders you to break the eggs but not to beat them. What Lenin called “scrambled...
Russian Revisionism 2.0: The man behind Putin’s warped view of history
21 Sept 2023 11:00 AM ISTVladimir Medinsky, Russia’s former culture minister and now a presidential aide has helped construct the ideological and historical edifice on which...
Russia finds itself isolated over Ukraine war as ally Armenia flips to...
19 Sept 2023 10:33 PM ISTPutin finds himself increasingly isolated on the global stage. Last year's invasion of Ukraine has left him with few friends, North Korea's Kim...
New alliances formed: The axis of outcasts
19 Sept 2023 7:00 AM ISTRussian arms deals with North Korea and Iran point to the emergence of a new axis of outcasts: countries united in their willingness to violate...
Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the moon: Russian space agency
20 Aug 2023 2:57 PM ISTThe launch earlier this month was Russia’s first since 1976 when it was part of the Soviet Union. The crash comes after Roscosmos reported an...
NYT, in rare praise, hails India’s space programme
5 July 2023 2:10 PM ISTThe NYT report added that both the US and India “see space as an arena in which India can emerge as a counterweight to their mutual rival: China.”