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चीनी कोशिशों के बेहद मामूली नतीजे
March 21 , 2022 Jayadeva Ranade
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बौद्ध धर्म के अनुयायियों की बढ़ती संख्या के बीच चीनी राष्ट्रपति शी जिनपिंग ने 14वें दलाई लामा के तिब्बत के अंदर औऱ बाहर बने प्रभामंडल को कम करने या उसे पूरी तरह से खत्म करने के लिए हाल के महीनों में अपन...

China, Tibet, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Hindi , कम्युनिस्ट पार्टी , तिब्बत , दलाई लामा , पांचेन लामा , शी जिनपिंग

West Asian and North African states’ Response to Russia-Ukraine Crisis
March 19 , 2022 Dr Hirak Jyoti Das
Article Views: 5051
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched military campaign against Ukraine after months of posturing, military build-ups and breakdown of the Minsk agreement that failed to stall the conflict between Russia...

West Asia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Food Security , North Africa , Oil and Gas , Russia , Ukraine , Vladimir Putin

India: Gearing Up for National Defence
March 19 , 2022 Lt Gen Gautam Banerjee
Article Views: 4566
Covenant of Defence Modernisation
In a welcome change from the past, particularly in the post-Doklam 2017 period, the nation is witnessing a coalescence of sensitivities on matters of national defence.

National Security and Strategic Studies, Defence

Tags : competency of defence preparedness , Defence modernisation , deterring neighbourhood aggression , ideating defence policies , principle of ‘military necessity’ , roots of military deficits

Russo-Ukraine Conflict - View from the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean
March 17 , 2022 Shashank Sharma
Article Views: 7623
Background On 24 Feb 2022, President Putin commenced a "special military operation" against Ukraine attacking airports and military headquarters. Tanks and troops rolled in from Russia, Russian-controlled Crimea and Belarus

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Amphibious operation , Baltic Sea , Black Sea , Black Sea fleet , Blockade , Bosphorous straits , Crimea , Dardanelles straits , Kalibr cruise missile , Kaliningrad enclave , Marines , Mariupol , Mediterranean Sea , NATO , naval marines , Naval Strategy , Odessa , Russian Navy , Sea of Azov , Sevastapol , Snake Island , Tartus , Turkish straits , Ukraine Crisis

Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Where do African Countries Stand?
March 17 , 2022 Samir Bhattacharya
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Context
On 21st February 2022, President Vladimir Putin recognised the independence of Ukraine’s breakaway regions, Donetsk and Luhansk and decided to support Moscow-backed separatists with a military operation

Africa, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : African Union , Coups , Energy Security , Food Security , Mali , Russia , Russia Africa Summit , Sudan , Ukraine , United Nations , Wagner

The Russian Airpower Dilemma
March 16 , 2022 Air Vice Marshal (Retd) Rajesh Isser, AVSM,VM (G)
Article Views: 5194
General Observations The ‘fog of information war’ challenges any meaningful analysis at this stage. The western narrative with connivance of the corporate sector has virtually silenced the ‘other’ narra...

Russia, International Relations and Diplomacy

Tags : Air defence , Air Power , Ukraine , VKS , Zelensky

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