Mainstream Weekly

Thoughts on the Occasion of October Revolution's Centenary

Arun Mohanty — 2017-11-06T20:18:23Z

Human society has witnessed so many revolutions but no revolution has influenced human history so much as has the Great October Revolution of 1917. No other revolution has triggered so profound socio-economic and geopolitical transformation in the global scale as has the October Revolution. The further we move away from the history-making events of 1917, the more we realise the global significance of this revolution. The October Revolution led to the birth of not only the first socialist (…)

- 2017

On the 70th Anniversary of Establishment of Indo-Russian Diplomatic Ties

Arun Mohanty — 2017-10-30T17:01:59Z

Nehru had seriously thought of evolving India's foreign policy even before India attained independence. An outline of the foreign policy had already begun to emerge in his mind even before he assumed any government position in the final years of India's freedom struggle. It was in his position as the Vice-President of the Viceroy's Executive Council and a member for external affairs that he made the first official announcement of India's foreign policy. In a nationwide broadcast on September (…)

- 2017

St Petersburg Summit: Boosting Indo-Russian Economic Cooperation

Arun Mohanty — 2017-06-10T20:47:51Z

The Indo-Russian annual summit, taking place alternatively in each other's capital, was this time held in St Petersburg, the northern capital of Russia and President Vladimir Putin's home town. This is the first time when an Indo-Russian annual summit was held in summer, as India for the first time was invited to the St Petersburg International Economic Forum as the guest of honour. The St Petersburg Economic Forum, Russia's most prestigious business platform, widely regarded as the Davos of (…)

- 2017

Russian Economy Overcomes Long Drawn-out Crisis

Arun Mohanty — 2017-05-20T10:42:27Z

The year 2017 brings good news for the Russian economy that looks all set for a steady growth trajectory overcoming the long crisis stemming from widespread international sanctions. The economy looks confident to register positive growth from the current year onwards. The most convincing argument in favour of the crisis being a thing of the past is the dynamic growth in industry as well as agriculture. According to the statistics available from Gosstat, the official statistics body of (…)

- 2017

Russian Envoy with an Indian Heart

Arun Mohanty — 2017-02-21T19:43:22Z

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Russia's legendary ambassador to India, Alexander Mikhailovich Kadakin, known as Sasha Kadakin to thousands of his admirers, friends, well-wishers and colleagues across the country, passed away on January 26, India's Republic Day, in a Delhi hospital. The entire conscious life of Kadakin, a great patriot of his country, champion of Indo-Russian friendship and sincere friend of our country, was deeply associated with India. Born in former Soviet republic Moldavia's capital Kishinev, (…)

- 2017

Goa BRICS Summit — a New Milestone

Arun Mohanty — 2016-11-21T22:43:38Z

With the Eighth BRICS Summit over at Goa, it is time for stock-taking of the developments at the meet. BRICS is the youngest and fastest growing international grouping that is designed to make the world truly multipolar ending the hegemony of any particular country. In order to assess the outcome of the BRICS Summit at Goa on October 15-16, one must look at the genesis of this grouping, its importance for its members and the extent to which it can influence international decision-making. (…)

- 2016

Goa Summit Strengthens Indo-Russian Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership

Arun Mohanty — 2016-10-30T10:50:57Z

No Indo-Russian summit was held in such an anti-Russian media hysteria stemming from the Russia-Pak military exercise, yet no other summit in recent years has been so successful as the 17th Indo-Russian Summit taking place on October 15 at Goa. The Russia-Pak military exercise was held as per schedule in the wake of the terrorist attack on the Uri military base that took 19 lives. Delhi expected its special and privileged strategic partner, Moscow, to postpone, if not cancel, the first ever (…)

- 2016

India's Sincere Friend in Post-Soviet Russia

Arun Mohanty — 2015-07-06T05:43:03Z

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Russia lost its great statesman, veteran diplomat and outstanding academic in the demise of Evgeny Maximovich Primakov, Russia's former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and one of the most eminent political leaders of the post-Soviet period. Primakov's death brought down the curtain over an entire epoch in Russian history. Primakov—the journalist, academic, diplomat, political leader, statesman—would be remembered in Russian history mostly as the man who rescued Russia from the (…)

- 2015

Russia: Boris Nemtsov's Murder and Demonisation of Putin

Arun Mohanty — 2015-03-09T19:30:31Z

Boris Nemtsov, one of Russia's most flam-boyant and exotic liberal Opposition leaders and Russia's first President Boris Yeltsin's one-time favourite and heir-apparent, was shot dead on February 28 night at a stone's throw from Moscow's iconic Red Square behind the Kremlin walls. Nemtosov was returning home at midnight walking with his 23-year-old female friend, Anna Duritskaya, a model from Ukraine, after having dinner with her in a restaurant situated in the famous departmental store, GUM. (…)

- 2015

Russia At Crossroads

Arun Mohanty — 2014-12-27T20:14:44Z

Ruble's unexpected and sharp plunge on December 16, triggered by the Russian Central Bank's sudden decision to raise its key interest rate from 10.7 per cent to 17 per cent, at a single go, brought back the memories of black Tuesdays, back Thursdays of the unstable Yeltsin years when the local currency was once devalued in 1998 by 400 per cent in a matter of two days. This time the ruble registered a historic decline, dropping as much as 20 per cent to reach a dangerous low of about 100 (…)

- 2014