Maj Gen Deepak Mehra

The writer, Kirti Chakra, AVSM, VSM, is an Indian Army veteran. He has also served as the Indian Military Attaché in Moscow. He is the Founding Director and CEO of ThorSec Global. An accomplished scholar, he specialises in Geopolitics with a focus on Russian Studies and is currently pursuing his PhD in the field, further enriching his depth of knowledge and global perspective. He can be reached at deepakmehra67@yahoo.co.uk and deepak.mehra@thorsecglobal.com

Ivan’s Dream: St Basil Cathedral – A Symphony in Stone and Colour

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Saint Basil's Cathedral rises like a vision from a medieval fairytale, its onion domes swirling in brilliant reds, greens, blues, and gold against the skyline of Moscow. Built in the 16th century, the cathedral...

The World in Interregnum

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The word Interregnum comes from Latin, inter (between) and regnum (reign or rule). In ancient Rome and medieval Europe, it described the dangerous legal vacuum between the death of one ruler and the formal...

Fracturing World Order: Time for Europe to Talk to Russia

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The contemporary international system stands at a critical juncture. What was heralded as the ‘end of the Cold War’ following the collapse of the Soviet Union has instead produced nearly three decades of unprecedented...

The Big Picture: Parliamentary Paralysis and the Geopolitics of Disruption

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India’s Parliament was stalled for three consecutive days in the first week of February, not by a budgetary impasse, nor a constitutional crisis, nor a national emergency, but by a carefully sustained confrontation over...

Modi-Putin Summit 2025: Reinforcing Strategic Recalibration

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Prime Minister Narender Damodardas Modi’s embrace of President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin at the airport, on December 4, 2025, during the latter’s state visit to New Delhi, marked an inflection point in India-Russia relations and...

Russia’s Eastern Pivot: A Strategic Recalibration

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At the 2012 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Vladivostok, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared Russia’s Pivot to Asia. It was in response to Asia’s growing economic importance, Moscow’s growth constraints with its traditional...

Syria’s Cauldron: Unstable Governance and Shifting Alliances

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For more than a decade, the Syrian civil war ravaged the country, resulting in the deaths of over 600,000 people and the displacement of more than 12 million, creating one of the largest humanitarian...

Frozen Connections

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In May 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin, extended a rare personal gesture to Akie Abe, wife of late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, by facilitating her visit to Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre in his own...

How is the Josh? High Sir!

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In the stillness of the early hours, as the nation slept in comfort, India through its Armed Forces exercised its right to respond and struck at terrorist targets inside Pakistan and Pakistan occupied Jammu...

Transition in Syria: A Review

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Decade and a half of a conflict in Syria has created one of the world’s largest refugee crises with over 14 million Syrians forced to flee their homes. Out of these, almost 7.5 million...

Iran-Russia Agreement: Defying Global Hegemony

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President Vladimir Putin and President Masoud Pezeshkian, representing two of the world’s most sanctioned nations, signed a twenty-year Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement in Moscow during Pezeshkian’s official visit to Russia last week. This landmark...

Syrian Turnaround Stumps Russia-Iran Tango and India

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In 2015, Russia on the request of the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, launched a blistering air campaign against the rebel forces and the Islamic State (IS) opposing the Assad regime in conjunction with the...
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