Russian lawmakers have endorsed a bill mandating year-round military conscription, rather than just in the spring and fall, ...

Thousands of women in the former Soviet Union are looking for husbands in the West. But a writer who went to meet them found a story of love, longing and the dreaded Russian mafia ...

A Trump annexation effort would likely start in the North. It’s time to take the possibility seriously and have a hard ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 135,000 men to be conscripted into the army, the largest autumn draft held by the Kremlin in nine years. “From Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2025, conscript 135,000 ...

The Karnataka high court on Friday permitted the Union government to issue travel documents to facilitate the return of a Russian woman and her two minor daughters who had been discovered living in a ...

The country must stand up to bullying from powerful states and form bonds, as an autonomous nation, with countries that share our values ...

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Russia and China agreed to build Power of Siberia-2, shifting over 100 bcm/year of gas toward China and cementing a new east-focused gas order. Europe will rely more on costlier LNG, worsening its ...

China and Russia used the Tianjin SCO summit to pitch a “Global South–first” economic and security order. Beijing is pushing more local-currency settlement to cut dollar reliance. China–Central Asia ...

Stefan Wolff is a past recipient of grant funding from the Natural Environment Research Council of the UK, the United States Institute of Peace, the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK, the ...

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined a new global security and economic order at a regional summit on Monday (September 1), as India and Russia continued to ...