As the dust settles on the landmark 2026 BRICS summit in New Delhi, the global geopolitical landscape stands at a critical crossroads. In an exclusive interview, Mr. Maksim Nosenko sits down with leading strategic analyst Dr. Nandan Unnikrishnan, Distinguished Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, to unpack the summit’s major breakthroughs, the shifting dynamics of multipolarity, and what India’s next presidency might look like. [...]

On August 24, 2026, at the first extraordinary session of the 16th National Assembly of Vietnam, a resolution was adopted to divide the initial nuclear program of the Ninh Thuan nuclear power plant into three independent projects. In the previous interview, we discussed the intensification of cooperation between Russia and Vietnam on the Ninh Thuan 1 NPP project and considered other potential partners for Hanoi in the nuclear energy sector.[...]

1985 saw Australia and New Zealand alongside 11 pacific islands countries (PICs) signed the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga. The parties have agreed on the emergence of the regional nuclear-free zone, aimed at keeping the region free from nuclear weapons, nuclear testing, as well as radioactive waste dumping. [...]

The key element of the trip was an immersion in the country’s energy sector, and specifically its nuclear dimension. The Embassy staff helped me to verify many of the assumptions and hypotheses I had formed earlier concerning Zambia’s readiness to undertake its first nuclear power project, and they also directed me to information resources in which I was able to find everything required to prepare this short article. [...]