The hurriedly-arranged state visit to Seoul by China’s supreme leader Xi Jinping, scheduled to take place July 3 to July 4, indicates that unexpected, even seemingly insurmountable disagreements between (more…)
The second of the 6 state-of-the-art Varshavyanka-class submarines designed and built specifically for buttressing Russia’s Black Sea Fleet was launched on June 26. The event marks another significant step (more…)
India’s new Prime Minister made his first escape from the New Delhi government bureaucracy with a June 14 flight to the deck of India’s largest naval vessel, the INS (more…)
On June 3, a small ceremony closed to the public marked the end of a 12-year-long major operation crucial to the U.S.-led military efforts in Afghanistan. The Manas Air (more…)
Russia announced June 2 that the Kremlin had decided to lift the embargo on weapons sales to Pakistan. Moscow also said it was ready to proceed with a Mi-35 (more…)
On May 26, one historic moment was accompanied by another. Yes, India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in as the new leader of the world’s largest (more…)
Russia’s gigantic 5.8-ton Proton-M rocket carrying an expensive Ekspress-AM4R satellite crashed 9 minutes after it was launched on May 15 from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. It was only 40 seconds (more…)
The government plane for Russia’s Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin was denied entry through the air space of Ukraine and Romania last week. Rogozin was on the sanction list of (more…)
“Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych headed a mafia structure in Ukraine that spread across different state structures,” Ukraine’s acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky has charged. He further disclosed that Yanukovych’s mafia-like (more…)
