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Leveraging US-India partnership

May 10, 2012 M K Bhadrakumar, specially for RIR
The forthcoming session of the US-India Strategic Dialogue next month has a dense agenda. It tend to take strategic partnership of two countries to a new level

The great game comes to Bangladesh

May 3, 2012 M K Bhadrakumar, specially for RIR
Hillary Clinton visit to Dhaka intrigues Bangladeshi observers. But the most interesting thing here is the strategic coordination that takes place between Washington and New Delhi in relation to Bangladesh

The World Bank chose well

April 27, 2012 Konstantin Sonin, The Moscow Times
Jim Yong Kim was chosen to head the World Bank being supported by US and Europe. Meanwhile this appointment became a struggle between "spheres of influence" - an expert believes

India’s ICBM fails to impress China

April 19, 2012 M K Bhadrakumar, specially for RIR
A wave of patriotic fervor is sweeping over the Indian establishment and security community over the Agni-V launch. It poses no threat to the US and is unmistakably with an eye on China

The 200 marines, or a strategic pivot?

April 17, 2012 Boris Volkhonsky, The Voice of Russia
200 U.S. marines has arrived to northern Australia to protect American interests in Asia. Boris Volkhonsky examines what are these interests and where they are located

Obama’s men in Tehran

April 7, 2012 M K Bhadrakumar
Seymour Hersh is back with a bang. His latest piece in the New Yorker magazine lays bare the grotesque features of the United States' so-called 'containment' policy on Iran.

US diplomacy runs aground in South Asia

April 5, 2012 M K Bhadrakumar
When Professor Paul Kennedy predicted the inexorable decline of America as world power, there were hardly any takers. But today even ‘Friends of America’ would acknowledge it to be an inexorable historical happening

The Afghan transit fork

March 29, 2012 Viktor Litovkin, New Eastern Outlook
Russia tries to assert its position as the U.S. plans its withdrawal from Afghanistan

Syria and Assad’s destinies become intertwined

March 29, 2012 Andrei Ilyashenko
Russia hopes that former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s mission to Syria will mitigate the increasing tensions in the Middle East region

The US interests in Afghanistan and Central Asia

March 27, 2012 Leonid Gusev, New Eastern Outlook
The forces of the United States and the Western countries should pull out of Afghanistan in 2014. How will things develop there and in Central Asia then?

Russia puts U.S. satellite in orbit

March 26, 2012 RIA Novosti
Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket successfully put a U.S. telecoms satellite into orbit on Monday, space officials said.

Obama’s belated congratulation to Putin: What does it signal?

March 22, 2012 Dadan Upadhyay, specially for RIR
Barack Obama congratulated President-elect Vladimir Putin on his victory only five days later. Dadan Upadhyay analyses if it is a worrying sign for the US-Russian “reset” programme

War on the nuke

March 11, 2012 Andrei Ilyashenko, specially for RIR
“Israel has not yet decided on military action against Iran but it might resort to force”, Reuter reported, citing an unnamed source close to the talks between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on 5th of March

Colonialism 2.0

March 11, 2012 Rakesh Krishnan Simha
Is the West reviving what was once a spectacularly successful Western strategy – colonisation?

People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones

March 6, 2012 Evgeny Primakov, Rossiyskaya gazeta
A strike on Iran would be a riskier gamble than the intervention in Iraq

Delhi dissimulates Iran policy

March 6, 2012 M K Bhadrakumar
The subject is New Delhi’s response to the American demarche that it should reduce its oil imports from Iran.

The plot behind ‘Sabotage Kudankulam’

March 5, 2012 Rakesh Krishnan Simha
Fundamentalist Christian churches and remote-controlled NGOs are the new WMDs – workers of mass disruption. Their first big hit: the Kudankulam nuclear plant.

The midnight hour for nuclear disarmament

March 1, 2012 Gareth Evans, The Moscow Times
The doomsday clock's hands were moved a minute closer to midnight by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Russia and the US clash over approach to fighting Afghan drug trafficking

March 1, 2012 Aleksandr Shustov, Strategic Culture Foundation
Anti-narcotic initiative suggested by Washington was promptly blocked as potentially counterproductive by Russia

US wants to come back to Asia

February 29, 2012 The Voice of Russia
Indian expert Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan experesses her opinion on US, China and Russia relations.
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