No longer just an ‘alternative route’ on a drawing board, the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) is paying dividends in a time of global crisis. And Moscow, Tehran and New Delhi are now leading players in the Eurasian competition for transportation routes.

China at some point may dump its Pakistan investment and emphasize India ties, upending strategic calculations

New Delhi will continue to resist falling in line with Washington, potentially thwarting American strategies of neo-primacy.

The world’s biggest energy exporter—and home to billions of trees—is coming under international pressure over emissions ahead of United Nations climate change talks later this year. By Dina Khrennikova, Laura Millan Lombrana, and Ilya Arkhipov via Much of Russia’s Far […]