Winning in Afghanistan
November 17, 2011 Rakesh Krishnan Simha
1971 War: How Russia sank Nixon’s gunboat diplomacy
December 20, 2011 Rakesh Krishnan Simha, specially for RIR
Exactly 40 years ago, India won a famous victory over Pakistan due to its brilliant soldiers, an unwavering political leadership, and strong diplomatic support from Moscow. Less well known is Russia’s power play that prevented a joint British-America
The Czar is Back - But why is the West worried?
December 5, 2011 Rakesh Krishnan Simha
Vladimir Putin is the man the West loves to hate. There is such a huge industry of commentators, leaders and media people so completely obsessed with the return of the Russian leader as President that the gravity defying jobless rate in the West woul
.jpg)
Welcome to season of summitry
November 10, 2011 Rakesh Krishnan Simha
With the festering eurozone crisis throwing the developed world in a disarray and the ongoing shift of power from the West to East, a host of global summits are being held, bringing out hidden faultlines and power tussles to the fore.
Cannes or Can’t: Can G20 fix eurozone crisis?
October 25, 2011 Rakesh Krishnan Simha, Specially for RIR
With the eurozone reeling under a festering crisis, all eyes are on the G20 summit in Cannes early November. Can this grouping of developed and developing economies help avert a gathering global economic tsunami?
Foreign investment flowing back into Russia
October 5, 2011 Ben Aris
As one of the few fully functional economies left in Europe, Russia has foreign investors jumping in with verve. In July, the Russian market took in $87.7 billion of fresh investments - triple the amount from a year earlier, according to Rosstat (the
America’s Most Desperate: Why are 50 million Americans starving?
September 30, 2011 Rakesh Krishnan Simha
The protesters camped at Wall Street are not just speaking out against corporate greed, they are middle and lower income Americans whose lives have been devastated by poverty and hunger – compounded by Washington’s apathy.
The Russian doctor who saved Bombay from plague
September 27, 2011 Ajay Kamalakaran
Not many in India know about Dr Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine. He was a Russian doctor who came to India quietly in the late 19th century and developed a cholera vaccine that saved thousands of Indians from the deadly blight.
