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Europe News Digest (16-30 November, 2024)

Pro-Ukraine Protests Take Place in European Capitals as 1000th Day of War Approaches

Protesters have been out on the streets of cities such to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which the UN estimates has killed or wounded more tha....

December 02, 2024 NATO , Ukraine , clean energy , Georgia , Poland , COP29 , Europe News Digest , VfB Stuttgart Summit

The Impact of Ukraine Conflict on Japan-Russia Relations

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

The Russia-Ukraine conflict has markedly altered the state of relations between Japan and Russia. Though many analysts see the start date of the conflict with annexation of Crimea in 2014, it was only with the Russian special military operation in Fe....

November 25, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , National Security Strategy , NATO , shinzo abe , Ukraine Conflict , Energy Cooperation , China-Russia , Kuril Islands

Europe News Digest (1-15 November, 2024)

Germany’s ‘traffic-light’ Coalition Government has Collapsed

Germany’s three-way coalition, the “traffic light” alliance of centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and free-market liberal Free Democratic party (FDP), has co....

November 22, 2024 Donald Trump , Europe , NATO , Europe News Digest , Fuel Exports , Budapest Declaration , European Council

Trump 2.0: The Impact of Donald Trump’s Victory on the European Security Architecture

Shreya Sinha, Research Associate, VIF Article

As the European capitals prepare for the former Republican President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, a significant geopolitical and geostrategic shift is inevitable. Trump’s policies could create potential upheaval across the Atlantic a....

November 19, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , US , Article , Donald Trump , Europe , Security , European Union , NATO , Ukraine , Transatlantic cooperation , Trade Wars

Eurasia News Digest (1-15 July, 2024)

Russia & Central Asia

Kazakh, and Chinese Business Leaders Ink 40 Multibillion-Dollar Agreements

Kazakh and Chinese business leaders inked over 40 agreements worth $3.7 billion on the sidelines of the Kazakh-Chinese Business C....

July 24, 2024 NATO , Military Exercises , Iran elections , SCO summit , Labour Migrants , Eurasia News Digest , Gas transit

US Presidential Election under Global Spotlight

Prof Chintamani Mahapatra Commentary

While more than sixty countries around the world will conduct democratic elections in 2024, currently it is the US Presidential election that is under the spotlight of the international community. Every fourth year, Americans vote for the occupant of....

April 12, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Commentary , India , China , Russia , West Asia , Presidential election , NATO , Biden , Hamas

Sweden Joins NATO – Does it Contribute to Peace or Intensify Conflict?

Prof Rajaram Panda Article

On 7 March 2024, Sweden officially became NATO’s newest member, upon depositing its instrument of accession to the North Atlantic Treaty with the Government of the United States in Washington DC, thereby ending its 200-year-old policy of neutrality....

April 10, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , NATO , Ukraine War , Nordic countries , Article 5 , containment strategy , defensive modernisation , Finnish War

Eurasia News Digest (16-31 March 2024)

Russia and Central Asia

US held the first B5+1 Forum

Announced by President Biden during the inaugural C5+1 Summit in September 2023 and highlighted in the corresponding New York Declaration, the B5+1 is the private-sector-led....

April 04, 2024 NATO , Labour Migrants , terrorist attack , Eurasia News Digest , EU Membership , B5+1 , South Ossetia , Global Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness , Solar power

Chilling Geostrategic Environment: An era of ‘Authoritarian Conflict Management’

Lt Gen (Dr) Rakesh Sharma (Retd.), Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

Are we getting close to a global confrontation or are these fears grossly exaggerated? Lately, the French President had spoken of sending ground troops to Ukraine, there are reports of 12 CIA bases in Ukraine, and 50 British troops (SAG) are in Ukrai....

March 12, 2024 International Relations and Diplomacy , Article , Israel , Russia , War , Myanmar , Nuclear , NATO , Ukraine , Gaza , Hamas , Sahel region

Eurasia News Digest (16-29 February 2024)

Russia& Central Asia

Wabtec Acquires Full Ownership of Locomotive Assembly Plant in Kazakhstan

The American company Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec) has acquired full ownership of the locomotive assembl....

March 05, 2024 NATO , CSTO , Military Intelligence , Eurasia News Digest , Qosh Tepa Canal , Munich Security Conference , Eurasian Supply Chains , Peace Keeping Mission , Golan Hights , Wabtec , Water Monitoring Station