Let’s get real about Pak-Russia relations on June 18, 2019The brief but relatively pleasant interaction between Pakistan’s prime minister Imran Khan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the recently concluded SCO summit in the capital city of Kyrgyzstan were widely reported in Pakistan’s mainstream media and hailed by the youth of the country on social media as a “quick reset” […]
Putin-Trump Summit: the circus continues on July 24, 2018US President Donald Trump met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for a week-long one-on-one summit this Monday in the Finnish capital city of Helsinki, only 391 km away from the historical Russian city of St. Petersburg. The summit was peculiarly important as it survived a volley of truculent criticism, calls for cancellation, and a whimsical […]
It’s the bear, not the dragon, stupid! on July 5, 2018Andrei Gromyko, famously known as “Mr. No,” served as the Soviet Union’s foreign minister for nearly three decades (1959-1987). He professed that no international question of any consequence could be decided either without the Soviet Union or in opposition to it. This overtly displayed confidence reflected the enormous military and economic prowess, which gave the […]