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April 14, 2021 21:12 IST
Russian Ambassador points to Cold War era thinking, while Jaishankar says no other country can decide India’s partnerships.
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Russian envoy Nikolay Kudashev said both New Delhi and Moscow were committed to S-400 deal. | Photo Credit:
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Russian Ambassador points to Cold War era thinking, while Jaishankar says no other country can decide India’s partnerships. India and Russia are “committed” to completing their contract for the S-400 missile system, due to be delivered to India at the end of the year, confirmed Russian Ambassador to India Nikolay Kudashev, who said both countries oppose U.S. sanctions on the issue.
Twitter permanently suspended 373 Russian, Iranian and Armenian state-linked accounts this week, including 100 Russian accounts it says were trying to undermine faith in the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) and advancing influence efforts targeting the U.S. and European Union (EU).
In a Tuesday blog post, Twitter Safety disclosed two different networks linked to Russian actors. One network included 69 fake accounts, it says amplified pro-Russian government narratives and “focused on undermining faith in the NATO alliance and its stability.” Twitter said the second network of 31 Russia-affiliated accounts showed signs of links to the Internet Research Agency (IRA), which it says has previously advanced Russian influence efforts targeting the United States and European Union (EU).
India, China, Iran â a sneak peek at US foreign policy under Biden, in the words of his team
Democrat Joe Biden will be sworn in as the US President this week. The members of his foreign policy & national security team have been drawn from diverse backgrounds.
Nayanima Basu 19 January, 2021 9:03 am IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: When the Joe Biden administration is sworn in later this week in Washington, a China critic seen as a strong interlocutor for India will take charge as US Secretary of State.
However, in looking at China with suspicion, Antony J. Blinken will not be alone. Bidenâs foreign policy and national security team â which includes men and women from diverse backgrounds â is packed with Beijing sceptics, going by their articles, speeches and interviews over the four years of Donald Trumpâs tenure.
Turkey’s Plan to Keep Aerospace Defense Forces Soaring
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keyboard arrow down The coronavirus pandemic has challenged businesses around the world this year, but few sectors have been disrupted as much as the aerospace industry. Companies will need exhibit both innovation and attention to detail as they seek to bounce back. “In the first 9 months of 2020, the COVID outbreak caused the commercial aircraft market to shrink by about 40 percent,” said Naki Polat, president of Turkey’s Defense and Aerospace Industry Exporters’ Association, known as SSI. “In the post-COVID recovery period, new standards in passenger transport, new products designed accordingly and adapted production processes are being investigated. Companies that revise their investment plans are turning to next-generation technologies.”
KYIV – This week members of the Party of Hungarians walked out of the inaugural session of the newly elected Zakarpattia regional council in Uzhhorod over what they called political persecution.
By doing so, they abstained from voting for a council head in the westernmost Ukrainian oblast where some 80 percent of the 150,000 ethnic Hungarians live in the country.
It was the latest flare up of tension between Ukraine and Hungary, the latter of which took issue with a raid on a Hungarian charity in the region late last month by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).
The counterintelligence agency said on its website that the raid on the Hungarian Cultural Association in Transcarpathia was part of several investigations in the region related to “information about the involvement of foreign funding in activities aimed at violating the state sovereignty of Ukraine.”