The leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Armenia did not even refer publicly to the Ukraine war as a topic of urgent concern for CSTO

China has emerged as the most influential external player in Afghanistan by a long shot in the period since the Taliban took power last August

Dissenting voices are rising in Europe as western sanctions against Russia start backfiring with price hikes and shortages of fuel and electricity

India has sensed that an epochal global struggle for ascendancy by the US and its western allies versus Russia and China has broken out in Ukraine

The very fact the Ukraine-Russia talks have been elevated to foreign minister level signals hope that a critical mass may be accruing

There is a palpable sense of urgency in Washington to clinch a deal in Vienna, as the advanced centrifuges in the Iranian nuclear installations are narrowing the so-called breakout time by the day

The visit by Pope Francis to the Russian Embassy in Rome on Friday, during which he spoke to the ambassador for around an hour-and-a-half, is noteworthy for a number of reasons

A new level of criticality has appeared lately in Donbass with large scale mobilization by Ukrainian forces and reports of western mercenaries in the guise of military advisors. The US intentions remain unclear

Russia is not impressed that European leaders are making a beeline for Moscow and sees a strategy to wear it down in inconsequential diplomatic gyrations

What really matters most for Moscow would be the myriad ways in which Beijing can mitigate the effect of any harsh western sanctions

Since December 21, all Russian natural gas shipments to Germany through a major transit pipeline known as the Yamal-Europe transnational gas pipeline have reversed direction

The release of two crucial documents in Moscow implies that it is under no illusion that the US strategy is about cornering Russia and browbeat it on the global stage