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Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping have forged a new partnership in Eurasia. How will that shape the global future?

A rivalry with Russia

Russia urged India to deepen its investments in the sanction-hit country's oil and gas sector, and is keen on expanding the sales networks of Russian companies in Asia's third-largest economy. Russia's economy faces its deepest crisis since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, as the West imposes severe sanctions…

Dr Liudmyla Sharipova was born and raised in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, in the 1980s

MOSCOW — On a wintry January day in 1990, the grand opening of the first McDonald’s restaurant in what was then the Soviet Union was hailed as an emblem of the thawing Cold War. A serpentine line wound through the capital’s Pushkin Square, a throng of thousands waiting patiently for…

Francis Fukuyama, the American political scientist who once described the collapse of the Soviet Union as the “end of history,” suggested that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine might be called “the end of the end of history.” He meant that Vladimir Putin’s aggression signals a rollback of the ideals of a…

South Africa abstained in a vote in the United Nations General Assembly on the resolution condemning the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, and demanding their withdrawal.

As the war in Ukraine rages on, another country with a storied history and long border with Russia is growing concerned.

The Ukrainian people have survived foreign occupations, centuries of subjugation and oppression by the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation.