A week after US president Donald Trump met Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for an Alaska summit that the White House touted as a likely prelude to war-ending talks that would also involve Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, there was still no sign on Friday of any follow-up meeting or diplomatic breakthrough.

August, I joined a team organized by the Institute of Area Studies at Peking University for a 14-day field survey along the China-Russia border. We traveled nearly 3,000 kilometers, gathering a wealth of vivid firsthand material on the state of China-Russia border trade amid the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

US President Donald Trump is threatening tariffs on other countries that buy Russian oil, in an attempt to pressure Moscow to end the war in Ukraine. But the United States and Europe themselves are still doing billions of dollars in trade with Russia.

Peter Navarro alleged that the money India makes from trade with the US is being used to buy discounted Russian crude, which is then refined and resold at higher prices in other markets.

At the 26th India-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar calls for urgent action to correct the widening trade gap and outlines a roadmap for deeper economic enga

Russia has strived to "stabilize and strengthen" its ties with India, suggesting that Moscow "continues to fear the impact of secondary sanctions," according to a new assessment by war analysts. In its latest assessment released on Thursday,