NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent G20 foreign ministers’ meeting and how it failed to provide an opening for peace as the Ukraine war enters its fifth month

Rania Khalek of BreakThrough News talks about the recent political maneuvering by Turkey around the NATO membership of Finland and Sweden, and its revival of relations with Saudi Arabia

Apart from the war in Ukraine, NATO members are also going to discuss the membership bid of two Scandinavian countries, Sweden and Finland.

There is a confluence of circumstances today, internal and external, that gives hope. Various compulsions are working on Washington and Tehran — and Brussels — which lend an acute sense of urgency on the part of these main protagonists

The summit exposed that the existing sanctions against Russia have gone beyond most Western policy makers’ pain threshold. The European leaders are discovering now that there is a price to be paid for further sanctions

The Petkov-led coalition government was formed last year after two inconclusive snap elections following the ouster of Boyko Borisov’s conservative regime

The three-day summit of the Group-7 (G7) countries is being held from June 26-28 in Krun in the Bavarian Alps with around 20,000 security personnel present in the region

In this episode, NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent BRICS summit and the relevance of the bloc in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war and geopolitical developments

The Russian forces are now almost in total control over the Luhansk region. However, peace is a long way off — several months away, perhaps

Paradoxically, the long war in Ukraine could only work to Russia’s advantage and the West’s over-extension may be its own undoing

NewsClick’s Prabir Purkayastha describes the latest developments in the energy wars as the west’s strategy of ruining Russia’s economy flounders

The West’s “information war” and its distorted projection of the China-Russia relationship in the context of the Ukraine crisis, is fraught with consequences for the emerging world order