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Fear of a Soviet-style collapse keeps Xi Jinping up at night

China’s Communists have now been in power longer than the Soviets

Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a toast during the National Day reception on the eve of the 75th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China September 30, 2024. REUTERS/Florence Lo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY(REUTERS)

world news

Published on Oct 05, 2024 08:00 AM IST

The Economist

The choice before the world: Development or expansionism

If we want the economic reforms effected over the last decade to sustain we must reform the UN.

United Nations(AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

opinion

Published on Sep 01, 2024 11:57 PM IST

ByShashi Shekhar

Why Russia has put Estonia PM, Baltic politicians on wanted list

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are all members of both the European Union and NATO, and their relations with Moscow have worsened sharply

world news

Published on Feb 13, 2024 11:38 PM IST

Reuters |

US to launch next Moon mission on Valentine's Day

science

Updated on Feb 08, 2024 10:58 AM IST

AFP |

Japan aims for the world's first ‘pinpoint landing’ on moon today

Japan hopes to join an elite club by landing on the moon.

JAXA spacecraft to attempt landing on Friday.(Representative Image/AP)

technology

Published on Jan 19, 2024 06:48 PM IST

PTI | | Posted by Singh Rahul Sunilkumar

HT This Day: January 9, 1973 -- Another Luna sent moonward

The Luna-21 launching was said to be part of Moscow’s scientific exploration of the moon and its immediate environment

india news

Updated on Jan 08, 2024 06:57 PM IST

ByAgencies

Roshan Kishore picks his favourite reads of 2023

A simple account of what went wrong in the Soviet economy, an interesting take on how the capitalist block in the Cold War pivoted to neoliberalism, and another on the rightward tilt in politics in Britain and Italy during the interwar period

The dialectics of political economy (University of Chicago Press)

books

Updated on Dec 29, 2023 05:37 PM IST

ByRoshan Kishore

View: Why does ‘turning the other cheek’ not make strategic sense?

If India has to sit on the global high table, then it must read the mind of its adversaries and competitors through hard intelligence.

File photo of Prime MInister Narendra Modi with External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and NSA Ajit Doval.

opinion

Published on Dec 26, 2023 09:44 AM IST

ByShishir Gupta

India must prepare for a conflict over Taiwan

India needs to consider the political and military consequences of a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan and formulate a policy to support Taiwan's freedom

opinion

Published on Aug 03, 2023 10:53 PM IST

ByHarsh V Pant, Yogesh M Joshi

Review: The Soviet Century by Karl Schlögel

From hydroelectric dams to prison tattoos and Stalinist cookery books, this compendious volume touches on nearly every area of Russian history and the Soviet experience

Vladimir Lenin, founding head of the government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924. (ismailyildiz/Shutterstock)

books

Updated on Jul 28, 2023 05:43 PM IST

ByPrasenjit Chowdhury

Writers have grappled with Vladimir Putin for two decades

Greyness, greed and grievance have been the dominant themes

Vladimir Putin gave notice of who he was, and what he was capable of, in “First Person”, a transcript of interviews published in 2000, at the start of his overlong rule.(AP)

world news

Published on Jun 25, 2023 12:03 AM IST

The Economist

HT Picks; New Reads

This week’s list of interesting reads includes a book on Pasmanda identity and the extent of marginalization of backward castes and Dalits among Muslims, another on the USSR and its disintegration, and a volume on India’s contemporary foodscape

On the reading list this week is a book on Pasmanda identity, another on the USSR, and one on Indian food today. (HT Team)

books

Updated on Apr 21, 2023 05:42 PM IST

ByHT Team

Separated by a wall, raised solely on basis of religion

People like these believe India and Pakistan can unite. Nothing is impossible, but there are several obstacles in the way

The ghost of the shadow war Pakistan embraced has now engulfed it. The dream of Quaid-I-Azam MA Jinnah is being destroyed (HT ARCHIVE)

opinion

Updated on Apr 09, 2023 07:50 PM IST

ByShashi Shekhar

'Did you get your Pizza Hut?' CPM unit lashes out at Gorbachev after his death

The official Twitter handle of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Puducherry lashed out at the late leader by sharing visuals of his TV ad for Pizza hut, which is now doing the rounds on social media.

Mikhail Gorbachev appeared in a Pizza Hut television commercial.

world news

Updated on Sep 02, 2022 12:17 AM IST

ByKanishka Singharia | Edited by Sohini Goswami

Shashi Tharoor recalls his meetings with Gorbachev: ‘My last conversation…'

Gorbachev ended the Cold War without bloodshed by bringing the Soviet Union closer to the West than at any point since World War II but failed to prevent its collapse.

Shashi Tharoor said he had the privilege of meeting Gorbachev twice, both times in Italy at small conferences.

india news

Published on Aug 31, 2022 08:10 AM IST

ByHT News Desk

Impossible to isolate vast country as Russia: Putin warns amid West's sanctions

Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled to the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Amur region, which is located in the far east of the country, earlier in the day, to meet Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko and mark Russia's annual Cosmonautics Day.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko and director general of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin visit the construction site of the Amur launch complex for Angara rockets at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Region, Russia April 12, 2022. (Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS)

world news

Updated on Apr 12, 2022 06:35 PM IST

Written by Sharangee Dutta | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan, New Delhi

‘Kyiv not Kiev’: Zelenskyy plea on ‘outdated Soviet spellings’ of Ukraine cities

Japan's foreign ministry announced that the capital of Ukraine will henceforth be referred to on all official documents as “Kiiu” as the Japanese transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling “Kyiv”. Till now, the official usage was “Kiefu”, which more accurately reflects the Soviet spelling of “Kiev”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.(AP)

world news

Published on Mar 31, 2022 11:04 PM IST

Written by Sharangee Dutta | Edited by Sohini Goswami, New Delhi

'Can't get away with making threats': Putin likens US behaviour to Soviet Union

Empires think they are powerful enough to make some mistakes, said Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding that such behaviour reminded him of the Soviet Union.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said US' behaviour reminded him of the Soviet Union. (File Photo)

world news

Published on Jun 05, 2021 06:01 PM IST

Reuters |

George Shultz, who led US Cold-War diplomacy, dies

An Ivy League-educated economist, Shultz moved seamlessly from academia to government to business. He led a faction that promoted “realism” in foreign policy, including direct bargaining with the Soviet Union. As Treasury secretary he played a role in untying the US dollar from the price of gold.

FILE - In this May 7, 2007 file photo, former Secretary of State George Schultz arrives to watch Queen Elizabeth II take part in arrival ceremonies on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Shultz, former President Ronald Reagan’s longtime secretary of state, who spent most of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union and forging a course for peace in the Middle East, died Saturday, Feb. 6, 2021. He was 100. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)(AP)

world news

Updated on Feb 08, 2021 07:04 PM IST

Bloomberg |

Russia revives Soviet-era lab to test weapons in Arctic climate: All you need to know

he laboratory, which has unique testing technology, was shut down in 1991 after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union.

File photo of a Russian military base in the Arctic .(Reuters)

world news

Updated on Dec 26, 2020 04:53 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Byhindustantimes.com| Edited by Mallika Soni

Le Carré captured the human condition, in the Cold War and beyond

Through the grey world of espionage, Le Carré wrote about the human condition. In his own words: “Out of the secret world I once knew, I tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit.”

We should rejoice that David Cornwell, a mid-level intelligence officer, decided in 1961 to become a writer and transformed into John Le Carré(Getty Images)

analysis

Published on Dec 17, 2020 09:32 PM IST

ByPrakash Karat

China’s space ambitions: Robot on Mars, a human on the moon

The Chang’e 5, the first effort to bring lunar rocks to Earth since the 1970s, collected samples on Wednesday, the Chinese space agency announced. The probe landed Tuesday on the Sea of Storms on the moon’s near side.

FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2018, file photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Chang'e 4 lunar probe launches from the the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.(AP)

science

Published on Dec 02, 2020 03:01 PM IST

ByAssociated Press | Posted by Arpan Rai

HTLS 2020: Heralding a new era of Indian assertiveness in global order

The Maastricht Treaty that heralded the transformation of a European Common Market into an integrated European Union was undoubtedly a pathbreaking development that promised to make the old nationalisms redundant.

For us in India, the past three decades have seen momentous changes.(PTI Photo)

htls

Updated on Nov 19, 2020 05:42 PM IST

BySwapan Dasgupta

Valentina Tereshkova: First woman to travel in space

In 1963, this pioneering cosmonaut from the former Soviet Union became the first woman to fly in space. A staunch Communist Party member, she worked a lot for the betterment of women.

ht school

Updated on Sep 14, 2020 09:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

When UK planted anti-Soviet propaganda in Indian media

Declassified files at the National Archives show that the Information Research Department (IRD) in the Foreign Office bought strip cartoon rights of the book in 1950, intending to use it as part of the cut-and-thrust of the then Cold War.

(Credit: ‘Crown Copyright courtesy of The National Archives’)

india news

Updated on Aug 20, 2020 01:34 AM IST

Hindustan Times, London | ByPrasun Sonwalkar

Russia plans to approve world’s first Covid-19 vaccine by August 10: Report

Referring to 1957 launch of the world’s first satellite by the Soviet Union, Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was quoted as saying, “It is a Sputnik moment.”Russia’s sovereign wealth fund is financing vaccine research.

The CNN reported that Russia is planning for approval of the vaccine by August 10, which has been created by the Moscow-based Gamaleya Institute.(AP)

world news

Published on Jul 30, 2020 04:21 PM IST

Moscow | ByAsian News International| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi

Putin insists on recognition of USSR’s WWII role

The Russian President, in an article titled “The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II,” talks about who is to blame for starting the war.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin wrote “It is essential to pass on to future generations the memory of the fact that the Nazis were defeated first and foremost by the Soviet people.”(via REUTERS)

world news

Updated on Jun 19, 2020 10:21 AM IST

Moscow | ByAssociated Press | Posted by Prashasti Singh

Decoding China’s playbook | HT Editorial

Until it converts words into deeds, India must be cautious

Beijing does not believe territorial disputes are a tea party and it is important that New Delhi does not treat them as such(REUTERS)

editorials

Updated on Jun 11, 2020 07:19 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

Sunday Drive with Hormazd Sorabjee: Throwback drives

Since actually driving is impossible during the lockdown, here’s a trip down memory lane

The K2K drive was flagged off from Kargil in a Maruti 800 and the uber-expensive Mercedes E240

lifestyle

Updated on May 17, 2020 02:19 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHormazd Sorabjee

At 70, NATO is weak and divided | HT Editorial

It, however, has a role to play in the global balance of power

NATO summit, Watford, Britain, December 4. In the past, India tended to see NATO as an instrument of Western dominance(REUTERS)

editorials

Published on Dec 04, 2019 08:18 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByHT Correspondent

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China’s Communists have now been in power longer than the Soviets

If we want the economic reforms effected over the last decade to sustain we must reform the UN.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are all members of both the European Union and NATO, and their relations with Moscow have worsened sharply

US to launch next Moon mission on Valentine's Day

Japan hopes to join an elite club by landing on the moon.

The Luna-21 launching was said to be part of Moscow’s scientific exploration of the moon and its immediate environment

A simple account of what went wrong in the Soviet economy, an interesting take on how the capitalist block in the Cold War pivoted to neoliberalism, and another on the rightward tilt in politics in Britain and Italy during the interwar period

If India has to sit on the global high table, then it must read the mind of its adversaries and competitors through hard intelligence.

India needs to consider the political and military consequences of a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan and formulate a policy to support Taiwan's freedom

From hydroelectric dams to prison tattoos and Stalinist cookery books, this compendious volume touches on nearly every area of Russian history and the Soviet experience

Greyness, greed and grievance have been the dominant themes

This week’s list of interesting reads includes a book on Pasmanda identity and the extent of marginalization of backward castes and Dalits among Muslims, another on the USSR and its disintegration, and a volume on India’s contemporary foodscape

People like these believe India and Pakistan can unite. Nothing is impossible, but there are several obstacles in the way

The official Twitter handle of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Puducherry lashed out at the late leader by sharing visuals of his TV ad for Pizza hut, which is now doing the rounds on social media.

Gorbachev ended the Cold War without bloodshed by bringing the Soviet Union closer to the West than at any point since World War II but failed to prevent its collapse.

Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled to the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Amur region, which is located in the far east of the country, earlier in the day, to meet Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko and mark Russia's annual Cosmonautics Day.

Empires think they are powerful enough to make some mistakes, said Russian President Vladimir Putin, adding that such behaviour reminded him of the Soviet Union.

he laboratory, which has unique testing technology, was shut down in 1991 after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union.

Through the grey world of espionage, Le Carré wrote about the human condition. In his own words: “Out of the secret world I once knew, I tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit.”

The Chang’e 5, the first effort to bring lunar rocks to Earth since the 1970s, collected samples on Wednesday, the Chinese space agency announced. The probe landed Tuesday on the Sea of Storms on the moon’s near side.

The Maastricht Treaty that heralded the transformation of a European Common Market into an integrated European Union was undoubtedly a pathbreaking development that promised to make the old nationalisms redundant.

In 1963, this pioneering cosmonaut from the former Soviet Union became the first woman to fly in space. A staunch Communist Party member, she worked a lot for the betterment of women.

Declassified files at the National Archives show that the Information Research Department (IRD) in the Foreign Office bought strip cartoon rights of the book in 1950, intending to use it as part of the cut-and-thrust of the then Cold War.

Referring to 1957 launch of the world’s first satellite by the Soviet Union, Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was quoted as saying, “It is a Sputnik moment.”Russia’s sovereign wealth fund is financing vaccine research.

The Russian President, in an article titled “The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II,” talks about who is to blame for starting the war.

Until it converts words into deeds, India must be cautious

Since actually driving is impossible during the lockdown, here’s a trip down memory lane

It, however, has a role to play in the global balance of power

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