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Putin muted for half a minute in humiliating mic glitch during major speech to 16 world leadersRussian President Vladimir Putin faced a brief microphone malfunction at an international forum in Ashgabat. The incident occurred during h...13 Dec, 2025, 09.11 AM IST- Ticket to the Arctic: Inside Russia's system of convict labourRussia revives forced labour amid Ukraine war labour crisis. Convicts fill workforce gaps in harsh regions like Norilsk. Activist Yekaterin...11 Sep, 2025, 11.09 AM IST
- Alexei Navalny was struck down with 'sudden death syndrome', his mother was told at Russian prisonAlexei Navalny's spokesperson confirmed that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from "sudden death syndrome," and his body would...17 Feb, 2024, 11.15 PM IST
- Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny tracked down in 'Polar Wolf' prisonNavalny's allies, who had been preparing for his expected transfer to a "special regime" colony, the harshest grade in Russia's prison syst...25 Dec, 2023, 11.54 PM IST
- The cyber gulag: How Russia tracks, censors and controls its citizensRights advocates say that Russia under President Vladimir Putin has harnessed digital technology to track, censor and control the populatio...23 May, 2023, 12.38 PM IST
- View: Communist defectors like Kanhaiya Kumar cannot revive a fading CongressHow this record makes him a potential saviour of the Congress escapes me. He was lucky the BJP made him a martyr, and grabbed the opportuni...06 Oct, 2021, 12.01 AM IST
- Kerala government's handling of Sabarimala issue disappointing: Amit ShahAsserting that his party stands firmly with every Ayyappa devotee, the BJP president said his party will not let the LDF "crush people's fa...20 Nov, 2018, 02.20 PM IST
- Jinnah as victim of intolerance? That turns history on its headThe anti-Jinnah clamour would have soon petered out. What fanned the outcry was the perceived intellectual duplicity in presenting Jinnah i...13 May, 2018, 10.51 AM IST
- Siberian survivor to secretive sadhu... Netaji mystery lives onAfter Bose had disappeared from Calcutta, a British war-time sabotage agency set up by PM Winston Churchill had been ordered to ‘eliminate’...11 Sep, 2015, 11.29 AM IST
- Why the process of political awakening in India needs protest singers like Pete SeegerWhy is it that in India, social unrest has not quite connected to music? This is particularly galling since India has a long and rich herit...02 Feb, 2014, 04.37 AM IST
- India must refine the nuclear deal with RussiaIf Manmohan Singh can craft an international camaraderie that could allay some political concerns at home, he may still save his diminishin...15 Oct, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- For all the clamour in Narendra Modi's favour, is India ready for an autocratic leader?Maybe we've just got too used to democracy to risk its attendant freedoms, by wishing for an authoritarian regime that could turn nastily a...09 Oct, 2013, 11.55 AM IST
- Does exile kill imagination and lead to devastation?Stefan Zweig, the Austrian-German author who was born into money and had a fetish for collecting originals of artists, once bought a manusc...23 Aug, 2012, 07.15 AM IST
- India Growth Story: All hype and no action?Our inglorious meltdown at Olympics is another pointer telling us that it's high time we disabused ourselves of the notion that we are goin...10 Aug, 2012, 03.28 PM IST
- The soft power of the Soviet UnionTranslators live in the shadow of the authors they recreate in their chosen language.10 Mar, 2011, 02.50 AM IST
- Out of the gulag: The Solzhenitsyn SagaA few newspapers went to town saying that Mr Karat had finally spoken of outdated '1940s-style' politics.30 Oct, 2010, 07.33 AM IST
- Russian writer Solzhenitsyn dies: reportRussian writer and dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn died of heart failure on Sunday.04 Aug, 2008, 03.44 AM IST
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