Debates about Russia’s internal authoritarian politics have long been defined by questions over the relative importance of security or military elites compared to their civilian counterparts. Some have called Russia a militocracy,

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, while Russian security chief Nikolai Patrushev held talks with NSA Ajit Doval in New Delhi.

EADaily, November 2nd, 2025. The Russian military repelled nine attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the northern and north-western directions near Krasnoarmeysk in order to get out of the encirclement.

Three Russian Navy ships arrived this week in Yangon to kick off the annual “Marumex” exercise, during which the Russian Navy will join the Myanmar Navy in the Andaman Sea. Destroyer RFS Marshal Shaposhnikov (543),

Russia’s repressive justice machine has taken a break from its usual diet of intellectuals, opposition politicians and lgbt activists, and turned inwards. In recent weeks the regime’s own war propagandists—often called “Z-bloggers”,

EADaily, November 6th, 2025. The court sentenced Ivan Populovsky, the former head of the 4924th military representative office of the Russian Ministry of Defense, accused of bribery, to 10 years in prison.