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...
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...
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...
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...