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Ukraine Crisis : India’s balanced stand We all know that India is continuously abstaining from voting against Russia from each and every resolution that is brought up on table in the UN so far over the issue of Ukraine. India’s neutral stand on this issue is currently the subject of discussion all over the world and various countries are reviewing India’s foreign policy keeping in mind their own interests. T.S. Tirumurti (Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations) Keeping Gandhi’s ideology of prime importance, India as a country, has always been a supporter of non-violence, and has advocated for the path of dialogue rather than any military conflict. In this conflict also between Ukraine and Russia, India has chosen its old and tested policy of non-alignment. India is constantly demanding for a ceasefire and urging both the nations to resolve the issue by peace talks. India is also continuously providing humanitarian aid to the war affected country. India is...

Part I : What Russians claim! The eyes of the whole world are on the military conflict taking place in the Eastern Europe at this time. If we look at this tragedy in a larger perspective, then it seems that it is a military conflict between two countries due to their preference for their respective interests, but if we try to analyse it in a micro reality, this was an avoidable human tragedy. To understand how this conflict is produced, under what circumstances and whose interests it might serve, we must know that historically Ukraine was part of various European dynasties and regimes, but to understand the present scenario we must know that in WWI, territory of present Ukraine was dominated by Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Russia and after WWI they joined the U.S.S.R. as Ukrainian S.S.R. formerly known as Soviet Ukraine. But Ukraine as a fully independent country emerged only after the dissolution of U.S.S.R. by popular approval in a plebiscite and they changed their name from U...