Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes to conclude deals on the sale of fighter jets and aircraft engines to India next week which could be worth more than $7.5 billion. ...
12:22 PM, Dec 20, 2012
Saying that extremism in Pakistan has its roots in jihad during the war between the then Soviet Union and Afghanistan, Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday said his country had brought down the frequency of suicide bombings. ...
04:41 AM, Dec 17, 2012
Moscow: Just 20 years ago, they seemed consigned to the dustbin of history. At Sunday's parliamentary polls, Russia's communists drew students, intellectuals, even some businessmen in forging an opposition to Vladimir Putin's wounded United Russia party. The Communist Party (CPRF) for most Russians evokes images of bemedalled war veterans and the elderly poor deprived of pensions and left behind in a "New Russia" of glitzy indulgence. Large swathes of society...
05:58 PM, Dec 05, 2011
Beijing: China's first aircraft carrier on Wednesday set sail for sea trials, officials said, as concerns mounted about the country's rapid military buildup amid flaring regional disputes. The refitted former Ukrainian carrier platform left its shipyard at Dalian Port in northeast China's Liaoning Province this morning to set sail for its maiden sea trial, Xinhua news agency reported. The agency said that the sea trials were in line with the...
02:40 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Jinggangshan: Bracing for key leadership changes, China's 80-million strong Communist Party is getting ready for yet another long-haul with an ideological makeover to avert a Soviet Union-style collapse which spelled doom for communism worldwide. Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) is going through the phase of "nervous sixties" as it completed 62 years in power, according to some of the party officials. "The Soviet Communist...
07:27 AM, Jun 21, 2011
A senior Pakistani Opposition leader has said the country is heading for disintegration like the erstwhile Soviet Union. ...
11:46 PM, Feb 13, 2007
Valentin Ivanov waited 50 years to get his medal after helping Soviet Union to win soccer gold at the 1956 Olympics. ...
01:14 PM, Dec 09, 2006
