PUTIN IMPERIAL PROJECT
Putin agrees to resume trilateral talks on Ukraine war with Kyiv and Washington, Kremlin says
Vladimir Putin has agreed to resume negotiations with Washington and Kyiv regarding the conflict in Ukraine. The trilateral talks will focus on establishing a post-war security system for both countries. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy insists on a leaders' summit to address ongoing hostilities. Recent discussions have yielded minimal progress amid continued military confrontations in Ukraine. U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff noted a slight momentum in peace efforts following multiple high-level meetings.
Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin to hold ‘tea diplomacy’ talks in Beijing after Donald Trump visit
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Beijing today. The summit will cover bilateral and international matters. This meeting follows US President Donald Trump's visit. Discussions will include strengthening their partnership and establishing a multipolar world order.
Antony Blinken blasts Sergei Lavrov for Russian escalation in Ukraine
At the OSCE meeting in Malta, Blinken and Lavrov clashed over the Ukraine war. Blinken accused Lavrov of spreading misinformation. He stated Russia was escalating the conflict. Blinken highlighted Russia's attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure. He also mentioned North Korea sending troops to support Russia. The two diplomats did not have a formal meeting.
Ukraine's top diplomat tells sceptics at the UN that his country 'will win the war'
Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, asserts Ukraine's determination to win the war against Russia, urging global support. On the eve of the invasion's second anniversary, he emphasizes the need for nations to back Ukraine, ensuring victory. Meanwhile, Russia's UN Ambassador denies Russia's aggression, blaming the West. The UN marks the anniversary as President Zelenskyy seeks more US military aid. Kuleba criticizes suggestions of negotiation, highlighting Russia's destructive aims and the failure of past peace efforts. He urges support for Zelenskyy's peace plan and emphasizes Ukraine's resilience and commitment to victory.
US blew up Nord Stream pipeline in covert operation, says top investigative journalist
"On September 26, 2022, a Norwegian Navy P8 surveillance plane made a seemingly routine flight and dropped a sonar buoy. The signal spread underwater, initially to Nord Stream 2 and then on to Nord Stream 1. A few hours later, the high-powered C4 explosives were triggered and three of the four pipelines were put out of commission. Within a few minutes, pools of methane gas that remained in the shuttered pipelines could be seen spreading on the water's surface and the world learned that something irreversible had taken place," said Her
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What legacy will Vladimir Putin leave Russia?
As his disastrous war in Ukraine demonstrates, Putin's achievements embody anything but greatness. He will leave Russia geopolitically weakened, economically little more than a Chinese vassal, its people viewed with suspicion and hostility. Russia will have little more than a hefty nuclear arsenal and a disregard for the laws of war to coerce its neighbours.
Ukraine seeks to extend shipping safe passage deal beyond grain
The July 22 deal marked a rare diplomatic breakthrough as war rages in eastern Ukraine, with Kyiv trying to rebuild its shattered economy after more than five months of conflict.
8 bn rubles of Indian oil firms stuck in Russia
ONGC Videsh Ltd (OVL), the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), holds 26 per cent stake in Suzunskoye, Tagulskoye and Lodochnoye fields -- collectively known as the Vankor cluster in the north-eastern part of the West Siberia. Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Oil India Ltd (OIL) and Bharat PetroResources Ltd (a unit of Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd or BPCL) hold another 23.9 per cent. Russia's Rosneft is the operator with 50.1 per cent interest.
Without Russia, science going solo on world's woes, dreams
Without Russian help, climate scientists worry about how they'll keep up their important work of documenting warming in the Arctic. Europe's space agency is wrestling with how its planned Mars rover might survive freezing nights on the Red Planet without its Russian heating unit.
'Not discussing regime change,' White House clarifies after Biden says Putin 'cannot remain in power'
A White House official asserted that Biden was "not discussing Putin's power in Russia or regime change." The official, who was not authorized to comment by name and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Biden's point was that "Putin cannot be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region."
Russian oligarchs' yachts seized in Europe, others harbouring in Maldives
The yachts arrived in the tropical archipelago off the coast of Sri Lanka after the imposition of severe Western sanctions on Russia in response to its devastating invasion of Ukraine.
Russia hosts first royal wedding a century after Bolshevik revolution as Romanov heir ties the knot with Italian fiancée
Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov and Rebecca Virginia Bettarini took their vows at Saint Isaac's cathedral.
India should play the great game for Artic oil & gas
In the inhospitable wastelands of the Siberian Arctic, whipped by blizzards and wrapped in polar night for six months in a year, a great game is playing out.
India's ONGC evaluating stake buy in Russia's Vostok Oil project
Vostok is one of Russia's biggest oil projects, comparable in size with the exploration of West Siberia in the 1970s or the U.S. Bakken oil province over the past decade.
Russian-origin defence equipment deployed in Ladakh, signifies special relationship: Indian envoy
Indian Ambassador to Russia B Venkatesh Varma also claimed that there is great interest in Russian defense industry to cooperate with the defense industry in India, both in the private sector and in the public sector to go forward and establish joint ventures for the future.
India-Russia strategic partnership: Constant factor in volatile world
The year 2020 celebrates the 20th anniversary of the formal signing of Declaration of Strategic Partnership. On 3rd October, 2000, then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and President Vladimir Putin signed the Declaration on Strategic Partnership between the Russian Federation and India.
Chief of Rosneft Igor Sechin accompanies Dharmendra Pradhan to Far East Russia
Russia is home to India's biggest energy investments with state-owned firms having spent close to USD 10 billion in acquiring stakes in oilfields such as Sakhalin-1, Taas-Yuryakh and Vankor and Siberia-focused company Imperial Energy.
India, Russia may seal oil field deal in Oct’s annual summit
India and Russia are expected to conclude a deal during their October 5 annual summit here to increase Delhi’s investments in Russian oil fields.
Modi-Putin summit: Officials working overtime to iron out details of nuke power pact
Indian officials said that last-minute talks are taking place to iron out details and language of the agreement on a line of credit for building Unit 5 and 6 of the Kundankulam nuclear power plant.
Oil-poor India needs to supersize its Rosneft order: Gadfly
For producers with strong balance sheets, the ongoing weakness in oil markets is creating an attractive environment in which to pick up assets.
India gets oil deals as Russia opens doors
Rosneft has formalised sale of 10% stake in its 100% subsidiary Vankorneft to ONGC Videsh (OVL) for $1.3 billion.
OVL's $1.26 bn Vankor stake buy pact to be signed tomorrow
An agreement formalising ONGC Videsh's $1.268 billion acquisition of 15 per cent stake in Russia's second biggest oil field of Vankor will be signed in Moscow tomorrow.
PM Narendra Modi-Vladimir Putin dialogue may lead to easier oil imports from Russia
Russian oil firm Rosneft recently sold to China 10% stake in the field, which has estimated recoverable reserves of 500 million tonnes of oil.
Putin for reversing decline in bilateral trade with India
OVL is interested in expanding its presence in Russia as it looks to source one million barrels per day of oil and oil-equivalent gas from Russia.
Putin keen on exporting LNG to India
He says cost of selling natural gas to India through a cross-country pipeline was much higher than shipping it in its liquid form (LNG).
Economics is no objective science, its a religion ridden with value-judgments
Economists decide what enters the analysis and what doesn't. The calculations are a scientific wrapping, the content is an expression of values.
Russia rejects tax sops to ONGC-owned Imperial Energy
The Russian Government, in the last three years of ONGC's presence has gained about half a billion dollar in taxes.
Russia bundles Imperial buy with SAIL orders
With Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visiting India next week, Moscow is building pressure on New Delhi for Russian companies getting assured equipment orders in SAIL’s expansion plan.
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