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India Should Mobilise World Opinion for Ending the War
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

On the first anniversary of the Russia-Ukraine war, the world is staring at a deeply unsettling, uncertain future. The political, security and economic environment has deteriorated to such an extent that there is open talk about among people about t

February 23, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, India, China, Russia, Nuclear Weapons, Japan, PM Modi, NATO, G20, Biden, Wang Yi, ending war
Lessons of Ukraine War, and Applicability on India
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Since it began, the Russia-Ukraine has thrown up an overabundance of geopolitical, geo-economic and geostrategic lessons. It is humbling to note that the lessons of 2021 were in total variance with those of 2022. India has learnt significant geostra

January 03, 2023 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, India, Russia, War, Peace, Ukraine, Lessons, strategic ambiguity, economic interdependence
Indo-Russian Relations in the Changing Geopolitical Environment
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

Geopolitical Environment
India-Russia relations have stood the test of time for several decades. But they are under considerable pressure now due to the ongoing multi-dimensional global crisis, which has impacted the two countries diff

December 12, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Commentary, Russia, Indo-Pacific, QUAD, Economic, Ukraine, military, Geopolitical environment
Russia’s Ukraine War and the Concept of Balance of Power since Congress of Vienna
Abhishek Das

Prologue
From Congress of Vienna to the beginning of the First World War; Europe survived for nearly a century without a major war like the one it saw ended with the Battle of Waterloo or the one it would see starting in 1914. During this

December 07, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Russia, NATO, Ukraine, Cold War, Crimea, balance of power, Great Wars
Ukraine War: When will it End?
Amb K P Fabian

As of now, unfortunately, we cannot see any sign of an early end to the unfolding tragedy that started on 24th February 2022 when the Russian invasion began. By now according to estimates made by the Pentagon each side might have sustained about 100

November 23, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, India, Nuclear, Oil, G-20, Washington, Crimea bridge, Nord Stream, Zaporizhzhia
The Russia-Ukraine War 2022: A Point of No Return?
Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF

On 24 February 2022, President Vladimir Putin announced ‘special military operation,’ the beginning of land, sea, and air offensive against Ukraine. The Western Pundits had forecast that the war under the onslaught of Russian famed military and t

September 28, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Russia, Nuclear, Referendum, Ukraine, EU, Donetsk, Luhansk, Donbas
Russia Africa Relations
Steven Gruzd

In this episode of VIF podcast, Steven Gruzd from the South African Institute of International Affairs discusses with Samir Bhattacharya, Research Associate at the Vivekananda International Foundation on the current contours of Russia-Africa relation

September 27, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Africa, Russia, Podcast, Ukraine Crisis, African Union, Wagner
Remembering Gorbachev
Amb Rajiv Sikri

“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.” (William Shakespeare) Mikhail Gorbachev’s passing away on 30th August has compelled observers around the world to assess his place in history. For t

September 12, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Nuclear, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Yeltsin, Moscow, CPSU, Gorbachev, perestroika, KGB, Khrushchev, oligarchy, reform, Stalin, uskorine
Gorbachev’s Legacy: A Reformer Who Lost the Game
Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and the last president of the Soviet Union, passed away in Moscow on 30 August 2022 at the age of 91. He was no ordinary leader. He was the principal architect of the end of

September 05, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Russia, Putin, Ukraine, glasnost, Gorbachev, Marxist-Leninist, perestroika, USSR
The man who brought down the Iron Curtain
Amb P S Raghavan, Distinguished Fellow, VIF

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has frequently been quoted as saying that the breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical disaster of the twentieth century. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last President of the USSR, who passed away in Mosco

September 02, 2022 International Relations and Diplomacy, Russia, Article, Soviet Union, Vladimir Putin, mikhail gorbachev, nobel peace prize, warsaw pact
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