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Nuclear glasnost

The “Public dialogue-forum AtomEco 2017”, organised in Moscow on November 21 and 22, discussed the pros and cons of nuclear power generation and its f

T.S. SUBRAMANIAN recently in Moscow

Polish troops land with parachutes at the military compound near Torun, central Poland, on June 7, 2016, as part of the NATO Anaconda-16 military exercise.
Anaconda is the largest-ever military exercise involving NATO partners, amid the West's worst standoff with Russia since the end of the Cold War. / AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI

Looming tension

War games, said to be the biggest since the Cold War, have escalated near Russia’s borders ahead of the NATO summit in July.

JOHN CHERIAN in Moscow

President Vladimir Putin of Russia speaks during a rally celebrating the anniversary of the formal annexation of Crimea, at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 18, 2015. Putin said the annexation was not merely about territorial expansion but restoring an important part of Russian historical identity. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool via The New York Times) -- FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY.

Celebration time

One year after it voted to leave Ukraine, the Crimean peninsula is completely integrated with the Russian Federation and its people are making it clea

JOHN CHERIAN in Moscow,Simferopol

Russian President Vladimir Putin signs bills making Crimea part of Russia in the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, March 21, 2014. President Vladimir Putin completed the annexation of Crimea on Friday, signing the peninsula into Russia at nearly the same time his Ukrainian counterpart sealed a deal pulling his country closer into Europe's orbit. (AP Photo/Sergei Chirikov, Pool)

Russian riposte

With its intervention in Crimea, Russia is sending a clear message to the U.S. and its Western allies that the unipolar world order is not viable anym

VLADIMIR RADYUHIN,in Moscow

TOPSHOTS
People walk past a poster in Sevastopol on March 11, 2014 reading 'On March 16 we will choose either... or...', depicting Crimea in red with a swastika and covered in barbed wire (L) and Crimea with the colors of the Russian flag. Pro-Moscow lawmakers in Crimea voted for independence from Ukraine on March 11 in a precursor to a referendum this weekend for the region to become part of Russia. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV

Crossing the line

Moscow sees the West’s meddling in Ukraine as an encroachment on Russia itself.

VLADIMIR RADYUHIN in Moscow

TOPSHOTSRussia’s President Vladimir Putin (front 2L) walks past Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff (front L), US President Barack Obama (front C), Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel (front 2R) and Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (front R) to his position for the family photo during the G20 summit on September 6, 2013 in Saint Petersburg. World leaders at the G20 summit on Friday failed to bridge their bitter divisions over US plans for military action against the Syrian regime, with Washington signalling that it has given up on securing Russia's support at the UN on the crisis. AFP PHOTO / KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV

The Russian grandmaster

Vladimir Putin ensured that the G20 summit delivered a stinging blow to the U.S. President who pushed for a “punitive” strike against Syria and left h

VLADIMIR RADYUHIN in Moscow.

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) ushers Russian President Vladimir Putin during a welcoming ceremony for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing June 5, 2012. China said on Tuesday that both Beijing and Moscow oppose foreign intervention or forced regime change in Syria as Putin arrived for a security summit. REUTERS/Mark Ralston/Pool (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS)

Strategic embrace

Strategic ties between Russia and China, driven by economic and geopolitical compulsions, are growing apace, prompting some analysts to warn of greate

VLADIMIR RADYUHIN in Moscow

Targeting democracy

The political and security-related reforms proposed by President Putin are widely seen as an attempt to concentrate power in the Kremlin's hands and u

CHARU SINGH in Moscow

A bloody trail

Russia mourns the death of about 400 people, most of them children, following the terrorist siege of a school in North Ossetia.

CHARU SINGH in Moscow

Terror in the air

The blowing up of two Russian aircraft by militants just a few days before the election of a pro-Kremlin President in strife-torn Chechnya once again

CHARU SINGH in Moscow

Trouble in the Caucasus

Georgia's attempts to reunite with it the secessionist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia brings it into conflict with Russia and escalates tension

CHARU SINGH in Moscow

Banking crisis, again

The Russian banking sector finds itself in a major crisis for the second time in six years as panicky depositors stage a run on Russian private banks.

CHARU SINGH in Moscow

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