August, 2023

• 16 August

  India’s Potential Sale Of Brahmos Missiles: A New Avenue In Indo-Russian Defense Cooperation – Analysis

  

  The BrahMos missile is one of the most advanced supersonic cruise missiles in the world. It has several advantages over other missiles in terms of speed, range, accuracy, and versatility. With the ongoing geo-political scenario, India is considering the trade of weapons and missiles as an alternative to increase its …

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• 16 August

  Iran, Pakistan Foreign Ministers Discuss Expanding Cooperation

  

  Iranian and Pakistani Foreign Ministers Hossein Amirabdollahian and Bilawal Bhutto Zardari emphasized enhancing all-round relations and developing economic cooperation and bilateral trade. Amirabdollahian highlighted the need to finalize agreements on exchanging prisoners and addressing unauthorized border crossings. The Iranian top diplomat emphasized the importance of implementing the positive agreements achieved …

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• 16 August

  India’s PM Modi Eyes US-Russia ‘De-Hyphenation’ – Analysis

  

  ‘Binary divisions’ are common in international politics, where two opposite sides view the other through a ‘zero-sum game’ mentality. For other countries, it always poses a dilemma—closeness with one country would not be seen positively by its rival. India has witnessed the United States/West–Russia (former Soviet Union) rivalry, which has …

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• 3 August

  Suspensions, Detentions, and Mutinies: the Growing Gulf in Russia’s Civil-Military Relations

  

  Suspensions, Detentions, and Mutinies: the Growing Gulf in Russia’s Civil-Military RelationsThe war in Ukraine is challenging the military’s established role in Russian domestic affairs, politicizing the armed forces, and reducing their privileged autonomy in waging war and developing the defense sector.Russian civil-military relations are in crisis. Last month, the Wagner …

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• 3 August

  Is North Korea Set to Become Russia’s Ally Following Shoigu’s Visit?

  

  It is in both countries’ interests to cooperate, since each can provide the other with something in short supply: Russia needs artillery shells for its war, while North Korea needs humanitarian aid.The extensive media coverage of Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu’s recent visit to Pyongyang contained two main messages: that …

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• 3 August

  The Faux Ideologies of Late-Stage Putinism

  

  Imagining history as a civilizational competition is convenient for the current Russian leadership because it means they can perceive themselves as part of a young civilization and, as such, they don’t need to calculate risks, invest in the economy, or conduct a reasonable foreign policy. Youth is forgiven everything, and …

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• 3 August

  Democracy Digest: Orban’s Speech Riles the Neighbours

  

  Elsewhere, Poland continues to talk tough over preventing Ukrainian grain from flooding its market; radicalised Czech pensioners rise up, again; Slovak paediatricians to no longer take on shifts in children’s emergency rooms from next week. Hungarian PM Viktor Orban did not make the international headlines with this year’s speech in …

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• 3 August

  As Kosovo Honours Its Guerrillas, Civilian War Victims Are Often Overlooked

  

  A dispute about engraving civilians’ names on a monument to deceased fighters in a small Kosovo town highlighted a wider problem: although most people killed in the 1998-99 war were civilians, most war memorials commemorate guerrillas. For more than 20 years, the name of Adem Ahmetaj’s nephew Jeton could be …

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• 3 August

  WITNESSING UKRAINIAN ACTION IN ACTION

  

  One of many crowdfunded initiatives that have sprouted up to help Ukraine since Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian Action has just delivered its 200th vehicle filled with humanitarian supplies.The conflict in Ukraine has come to be known as the “crowdfunded war”, as volunteers from around the world use social media to raise …

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• 3 August

  In Belgian-Serbian Arms Deals, Costly ‘Anomalies’ and a Whiff of Fraud

  

  Auditors have flagged “anomalies” worth almost 14 million euros in deals between a Serbian arms factory and a Belgian machinery manufacturer, BIRN can report. In 2017, in the southwestern Serbian town of Pozega, President Aleksandar Vucic cut the ribbon on a factory built to produce ammunition. “Out of nothing, out …

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