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Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Indian Navy Comes Of Age, But Some Caution Needed

Abhijit Bhattacharyya | Indian Navy Comes Of Age, But Some Caution...

The Indian Navy, however, has wisely gone on doing what others should have done with more intent and purpose for the...

2 Dec 2025 10:56 PM IST

Mohan Guruswamy | Christmas '91: The day Red Flag was lowered

For most of that decade, Russia teetered on the brink with Yeltsin's mood swings worsened by the alcoholic haze he was...

24 Dec 2020 12:00 AM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

Saeed Naqvi | Gorby's model: 1980s' Sweden as socialism was being...

Gorbachev, as the subsequent years proved, was clearly out of touch with the nation he had set out to transform

9 Sept 2022 12:06 AM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | Gorby' transformed world's history, not a hero at home

The general peace that reigned in the decade after the Iron Curtain came down was, however, unlikely to last forever

2 Sept 2022 12:05 AM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

P.S. Raghavan | The man who brought down the Iron Curtain

Gorbachev's was an unlikely story of a peasant boy from rural Russia climbing up the greasy pole of Soviet politics

2 Sept 2022 12:02 AM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

25 years after USSR: Will Russian spring return?

No sooner had Gorbachev finished, the red flag came down from the top of the Senate dome in the Kremlin for the last...

24 Dec 2016 5:04 AM IST

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev (Photo: AP)

From 1917 to 1991... End of a revolution!

Gorbachev had been aware of its capacity to do mischief, and had made it harder to obtain.

22 Dec 2016 3:28 AM IST