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Russia’s Changing Relationship with India: Arms Talk

Security
Read: The Most Dangerous Place in the World and Its Ongoing Border DisputesWith Russia’s military and diplomatic efforts focused more on Europe, where it sees itself locked in a struggle to coerce and cajole former Soviet states into resisting NATO and European Union expansionism, Moscow has signaled that it’s willing to be a “hostage to China’s behavior,” according to Rumer, who says China’s policy in Asia is now essentially Russia’s policy, with Putin not allowing anyone or anything to put distance between himself and Chinese Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping.

Two-State Solution for Cyprus Difficult, But Not Impossible

Opinion
Read: US Lifts Arms Embargo on Cyprus, But Only Selling SmokeWith its strategy in North Africa in tatters and its bases in Lebanon exposed to the dangers of what some may say is already a failed state, France is desperate to consolidate its standing in the region, and is doing so by riding the wave of European solidarity with Greece and the Greek Cypriots.

China-Iran Treaty: Hydrocarbons Bring the Old Friends Closer

World
This multi-billion-dollar series of infrastructural project straddling Eurasia and facilitating connectivity between China and inner Asia, West Asia and continental Europe, is directly dependent on the compliance and partnership of geopolitically linchpin countries such as Iran whose territories and infrastructure will create the pathways between China and Europe.

Hindutva Ideology: India’s Gradual Move Towards Genocide

World
To that end, it shouldn’t be forgotten that BJP draws its ideological DNA from India’s largest Hindutva organization - Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh – whose founders drew its inspiration from European fascists, including the Nazis, in the 1930s, and thus partly explaining the recent Nazification of laws in several BJP ruled states, including legislation banning Hindu women from marrying Muslim men.