In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (L) and Vietnam’s President To Lam (R) toast during a reception at the Hanoi Opera …
The “space race” of the 1950s and 60s conjures images of the gleaming Sputnik satellite, Soviet scientists in crisp white coats and sharp-nosed rockets rising into the sky with fiery …
Nguyen Thi Hong Van’s Russian souvenir shop may be a bit of an oddity in the Vietnamese capital, but her gifts sell very well, she says, reflecting the enthusiasm Hanoians …
Just last month, the head of the US Northern Command warned Congress that Moscow could soon deploy 12 similarly advanced nuclear submarines split evenly between the Pacific and Atlantic, creating …
Tectonic shifts are leading to the emergence of a more just multipolar world order. The unipolar model, which for centuries served the interests of the so-called “collective West” and fuelled …
A senior member of a Russian think tank whose ideas sometimes become government policy has suggested Moscow consider a “demonstrative” nuclear explosion to cow the West into refusing to allow …
Russia has invited Afghanistan’s Taliban to its biggest annual economic forum as Moscow moves to remove a ban on the Islamist movement, a senior Russian diplomat was quoted as saying …
However, Kim Il-sung was the leader of North Korea but his authority was given by [Joseph] Stalin, so generally North Korea still followed the Soviet Union. After China-Soviet relations soured, …
The US and its allies said the language that the 15-member council debated on Monday was simply meant to distract the world from Russia’s true intention: weaponising space. The UN …
Still, he agreed without hesitation because he views Putin not simply as a president but as a global figure who’s changing the course of world history, one of the people …