Farrukh Dhondy | There’s a price for supporting democracy: Are we ready to pay?

Not buying Russian gas and oil may cause serious problems there. But then, supporting democracy, even nascent ones, always has a price

Putin denies Russia bombing Ukrainian cities

Putin confirmed that Russia is open to dialogue with the Ukrainian side, as well as with everyone who wants peace in Ukraine

The US and European allies have promised to hit Russia financially like never before

During Angela Merkel’s 16 years in office, the world’s most powerful woman leader faced one crisis after another

BRICS has committed to combating terrorism, including the cross-border movement of terrorists, and terrorism financing networks

With the situation in Afghanistan likely to be discussed prominently at Thursday’s Brics Summit

India’s first real brush with the Taliban came during the December 1999 Indian Airlines IC-814 hijacking

Putin’s 'New Russia' is sexy, glamourous, flashy and trashy!

Surely the world’s only superpower claims a higher moral role than just organising the distribution of weapons and pocketing the profits

For most of that decade, Russia teetered on the brink with Yeltsin’s mood swings worsened by alcoholic haze he was in most of the time