Launched in December 1986, Vietnam’s “reform” era (đổi mới) came to an end in August 2024. Domestic political events in the ensuing months ushered the country into a new era, although the coming period may turn out to be a Gramscian interregnum, when “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.”
Steve Bannon warned his former boss, President-elect Donald Trump, against being pulled into an unwinnable war in Ukraine like Richard Nixon in Vietnam.
Vietnam has been trying to increase its domestic arms manufacturing while reducing its reliance on Russia for weapon imports.
Russia and Vietnam signed a memorandum of understanding on developing nuclear energy cooperation during a two-day visit by the
Vietnam continues to speed up administrative reforms, improve the investment environment and create favourable conditions for Russian businesses to expand here, says Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
Vietnam and Russia have signed a new agreement to expand collaboration on nuclear energy during Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin's two-day visit to Hanoi
Poseidon MRA1 aircraft from the Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) Force to assist NATO operation Baltic Sentry. On Jan. 22, 2025, the British government announced that RAF Rivet Joint and Poseidon aircraft will be deploying to the Baltic Sea to support the United Kingdom's
From Beijing to Hanoi and Moscow, the holiday — known as the Spring Festival in China, Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea — is a major festival celebrated by diaspora communities around the world. Wednesday marks the start of the Year of the Snake, one of 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac.
In late September, a US HC-103J Super Hercules spotted four foreign vessels operating about 440 miles southwest of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. Upon closer
A newly declassified analysis argued against “shock therapy” for the former Soviet Union. The warning wasn’t heeded.
Kremlin propagandists have said Moscow could benefit from the new Donald Trump administration and added that the U.S. president's talk of tariffs and what he could do to end the war in Ukraine was bluster.
Yes, there were Soviet troops in North Vietnam, and in significantly larger numbers than their Korean War predecessors. Although the Cold War never turned into a “hot war,” i.e., full-blown World War III between the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact on the side and the United States and its NATO allies on the other,