1. Will Russia Provide S-300 Air-Defenses to Syria?

    It seems that fears earlier in the week that Russia might sell to Syria an advanced air-defense system have been [...]

  2. Turkey’s SCO Play: Does it Matter?

    Turkey’s recent upgrade to ‘dialogue partner’ (not full membership) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has once again brought to [...]

  3. Does Putin Have a Kuril Islands Plan?

    As a I reported this week, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russia's President Vladimir Putin enjoyed what could be [...]

  4. World War II: Not Over For Japan and Russia

    An odd historical fact: Japan and Russia at the end of the World War II never signed a formal peace [...]

  5. East Asia’s Islands Challenge

    Last week, the Center for Naval Analysis published the fifth in a series of reports on the current status of [...]

  6. Vietnam To Receive Advanced Russian Sub in 2013

    As tensions remain high in the South China Sea between Vietnam and China, Hanoi is reportedly set to receive its [...]

  7. Did Russian Jets Violate Japanese Airspace?

    Japan scrambled fighter jets after two Russian Su-27 fighter jets entered Japanese airspace over the territorial waters of Rishiri Island [...]

  8. BrahMos Among Deals Putin Inks with India

    Months of speculation about the possible development of an air-launched version of the Indo-Russian BrahMos supersonic cruise missile finally came to a [...]

  9. Russia and America’s New Arms Race

    If reports in Russian state media last Friday are accurate, the world may be on the brink of seeing a [...]

  10. India Cuts Order of FGFA Fighter. F-35 on the Horizon?

    Fresh tensions in Indo-Russian bilateral ties are bound to surface soon as India is set to cut its Fifth Generation [...]