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Taliban militants have taken control of Afghanistan's borders with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, Russia's Kommersant daily reported on Wednesday, citing Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, heightening security concerns for Moscow.

Taliban promises no attacks on neighbouring countries after taking control of frontiers, Russian defence minister says.

Along the ancient Aras River may be fought one of civilization's greatest battles—a battle for oil

Amidst Taliban Gains, Russian Strategic Assets Threatened in Central Asia Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 18 Issue: 113 Russias Okno-M ground-based space surveillance station, Tajikistan (Source: Globalsecurity.org) On July 8, a high-ranking Taliban delegation came to Moscow and held talks with Zamir Kabulov, a former ambassador to Kabul, the Kremlin’s special envoy on Afghanistan and a department chief in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Apparently, the Taliban representatives hop...

The Russian Direct Line is a unique exercise in direct democracy: Russian citizens call up their president and he answers their queries and solves their problems, like a Nordic konung a thousand years ago. Russia came into being as a chain of Nordic princedoms that practiced this sort of direct access to their ruler; early Russian princes and Tsars posed themselves as an instance of last appeal and immediate access. Twenty years ago, Vladimir Putin resurrected this ancient practice, and once ...

GENEVA (AP) — An American president won’t side with Moscow over his own intelligence agencies. There will be no talk of a “reset” in Russian relations. And it is highly doubtful that anyone will gaze into Vladimir Putin’s eyes and discuss his soul. But beyond that, it’s not clear what will happen Wednesday in Geneva when President Joe Biden meets Putin for the first time since taking office. Both sides acknowledge that the relationship between the two nations is di...

Overlooked No More: Si-lan Chen, Whose Dances Encompassed Worlds As a dancer and choreographer, she sought to represent a broad range of ethnic groups, but audiences often sexualized and exoticized her by focusing on her mixed race. Si-lan Chen in 1944. A socialist, she approached dance as a way to build international solidarity.Credit...Man Ray 2015 Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, ADAGP, Paris 2021; Telimage By Jennifer Wilson May 27, 2021, 2:55 p.m. ET This article is part of Overlook...

CentralAsia-topographicdepot-1873 $7,500.00 Title Карта Средней Азии. / Map of Central Asia.   1873 (dated)         1 : 4200000 Description This is an impressive large scale 1873 Russian-language map of central Asia compiled by the Imperial Russian Topographic Depot for the 1873 Invasion of Khiva - with manuscript annotations detailing a British spys travels. Coverage extends from the Black Sea to Nepal, and the Persian Gulf to the Bay ...

In terms of the “New Great Game,” the withdrawal does not spell an end. Back in the 1990s, scholars and journalists who watched the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the emergence of an independent Central Asia, pondered about the return of some form of a new “Great Game” in Asia. This historical concept was popularized by English writer Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim. Later, historians used it to depict the Anglo-Russian rivalry and struggle for influence over Central Asia, its adja...

Kursk spelled the beginning of the end for the Wehrmacht in Russia. Heres What You Need to Know: Only the relatively recent declassification of Waffen SS combat records and the public accessibility of Russian archival material has revealed the true nature of Kursk: a brilliant tactical victory for the Germans, but a decisive strategic victory for the Soviets. With the German Sixth Army destroyed at Stalingrad, the Soviet juggernaut lunged west and southwest across the River Donets. The Soviets...