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Much at stake as Xi Jinping, Chinese leader, visits India

By Ellen Barry Sep. 19, 2014

NEW DELHI — India’s new prime minister, Narendra Modi, celebrated his 64th birthday on Wednesday by hosting President Xi Jinping of China in his home state of Gujarat, as the leaders of Asia’s two giants lay the foundation for a long-term relationship that carries huge stakes for both.

World and Nation

Al-Qaida announces new branch in India

By Ellen Barry Sep. 5, 2014

NEW DELHI — Al-Qaida has released a video announcing the establishment of a new branch on the Indian subcontinent, saying it is meant to revive jihadist activity in a region that was once “part of the land of Muslims, until the infidel enemy occupied it and fragmented it and split it.”

World and Nation

India sends security forces to north after deadly clashes

By Ellen Barry and Hari Kumar Sep. 10, 2013

NEW DELHI — India deployed thousands of police officers and army troops to a region in the north of the country on Monday after weekend confrontations between Hindus and Muslims caused the death of at least 30 people and grave injuries of many more, according to the police.

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Bomb suspect talked of jihad

By Ellen Barry May. 14, 2013

KIZLYAR, Russia — It’s not every day that a well-dressed American shows up in this town, where shaggy cows meander over deeply rutted roads, so people remember Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Among the things that made the young visitor stand out, two acquaintances recalled Thursday, was his avid interest in waging jihad.

World and Nation

After Boston Marathon bombing, US ties with Russia improve

By Ellen Barry Apr. 30, 2013

MOSCOW — After President Barack Obama and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia spoke by telephone Monday, a top Russian official said cooperation between the leaders’ intelligence services had “noticeably intensified in the past few days,” though he said Russia had not been able to provide valuable intelligence about the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

World and Nation

Russia seeks arrest of Georgian politician Givi Targamadze

By Ellen Barry Feb. 15, 2013

MOSCOW — Russian authorities issued an arrest warrant for a Georgian politician, Givi Targamadze, on Thursday, charging that he had incited riots in Russia, in particular by helping to organize an anti-government march in May that culminated in a confrontation between protesters and the riot police.

World and Nation

As Putin puts off meeting Obama, analysts consider future

By Ellen Barry May. 11, 2012

WASHINGTON — The first meeting between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin as the leaders of their respective countries was supposed to be an ice-breaker, a moment for two outsize figures to put behind them some of the friction that surrounded the Russian elections two months ago.

World and Nation

Amid protests, Vladimir Putin returns to presidency in Russia

By Ellen Barry and Sophia Kishkovsky May. 8, 2012

MOSCOW — In the lustrous, vaulted throne room of the czars who came before him, Vladimir Putin on Monday reclaimed the Russian presidency. A 30-gun salute cracked over the eerie quiet of the city, and Russia’s defense minister returned to Putin the black suitcase that contains the controls to a vast nuclear arsenal.

World and Nation

Leaving presidency, Russia’s Medvedev fights for relevance

By Ellen Barry May. 4, 2012

MOSCOW — President Dmitry A. Medvedev spent last Friday trying to persuade the grandees of United Russia that he is a conservative who can lead the party to victory. But many looked at him and saw Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin’s liberal sidekick, who emboldened the opposition and supported the West in Libya.

World and Nation

United Russia’s losses may affect Putin’s presidential bid

By Ellen Barry Dec. 6, 2011

MOSCOW — Vladimir V. Putin was not the subject of Sunday’s bruising vote in Russia, but you would not have known it from watching him when the early results came in. He looked like someone who has just received very bad news, and stumbled his way through a speech to his supporters, barely forcing a smile before stepping off the podium.

World and Nation

Report on Russia-Georgia War to Fault Both Sides

By Ellen Barry Sep. 29, 2009

After a lengthy inquiry, investigators commissioned by the European Union are expected to conclude that Georgia ignited last year’s war with Russia by attacking separatists in South Ossetia, rejecting the Georgian government’s explanation that the attack was defensive, according to an official familiar with the investigators’ work.

World and Nation

Shorts (right)

By Ellen Barry Jan. 28, 2009

An explosive device killed an Israeli soldier just outside Gaza on Tuesday, and Israel retaliated with incursions that killed one Palestinian and wounded another, in the first serious confrontations between Hamas and Israel since each declared a tentative cease-fire 10 days ago. With the new American envoy to the region, George J. Mitchell, set to arrive in Jerusalem on Wednesday, the fighting here underlined the urgency of his mission.

World and Nation

Accounts Undercut Georgia’s Claims of Russian Provocation

By C.J. Chivers and Ellen Barry Nov. 7, 2008

Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the long-standing Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.

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