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Russia’s Differing Strategic Trade Goals With Foreign Trade, China & India

China, Exports, Imports, India, Russian Market, Trade

The goals of Russia’s trade and economic partnerships differ depending on the country; for example, with China it is increasing non-resource, non-energy exports, and with India it is balancing trade, according to government materials for a strategic session on the development of foreign economic activity. Documents state that “the central element of Russia’s foreign economic […]

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Russia-Azerbaijan Bilateral Trade Up 2.5% In 2025

Caucasus, Exports, Imports, Infrastructure, Russian Market, Trade

Trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Russia amounted to US$4.92 billion in 2025, up 2.5% compared to the previous year, the Azerbaijani State Customs Committee (SCC) has stated. Trade operations with Russia accounted for 9.96% of the country’s total foreign trade turnover, the SCC said. Russia is Azerbaijan’s third largest foreign trade partner after Italy and

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Fiscal Swings and Roundabouts As Russia’s Petroleum Revenues Rebound In December

Energy, Exports, Russian Market

Russia’s oil and petroleum product export revenue reached US$11.35 billion in December, up US$250 million from November but down US$3.21 billion from a year earlier, the International Energy Agency said in its monthly report. Oil exports increased by 620,000 barrels per day last month to 7.55 million bpd. Russian oil exports in December increased by

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Lavrov Speech: Russia’s Strategic Economic Diplomacy in 2026

Africa, BRICS, China, Economy, Middle East, Russian Market, Trade

On Tuesday, January 20, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov convened his traditional annual press conference in Moscow to review the performance of Russian diplomacy in 2025 and set out the foreign policy and economic agenda for 2026. At this event—attended by hundreds of journalists—Lavrov emphasized that the diplomatic focus is no longer solely about geopolitical

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St. Petersburg’s SPIMEX Aims For Competition With The London Metals Exchange

Economy, Europe, Finance, Russian Market, Trade

The St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) is preparing for trading in platinum bullion, SPIMEX president Igor Artemyev has stated, and is collaborating with Norilsk Nickel on the matter. The Russian Ministry of Finance also has a specific interest in organizing the trading, though legislation will be required to permit such trade. Artemyev said, “We

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Russia’s Global Crustacean Exports Up 10% In 2025

Agriculture, Asia, China, Exports, Russian Market

Russia boosted crustacean exports by 10% year-on-year to 91,000 tonnes in physical terms, and increased revenues by 13% to over US$2 billion in 2025, according to the Russian Agriculture Ministry’s Agroexport center. The top 5 importers included China at US$1.2 billion, South Korea at around US$750 million, Japan at over US$33 million, Vietnam at over

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Russia Begins Greenhouse Substrate Exports To Saudi Arabia

Agriculture, Exports, Middle East, Russian Market

Russia’s Technonicol has begun exporting greenhouse substrates produced at the corporation’s plant in Krasny Sulin in the Rostov region to Saudi Arabia. The first batch of products included mineral wool cubes intended for germinating tomato seedlings in greenhouses. Technonicol’s products were delivered by sea from Novorossiysk to Jeddah via the Bosporus and the Suez Canal.

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Russia Increases 2025 Potash Fertilizer Exports To China By 6%

Agriculture, China, Exports, Russian Market

Russia boosted exports of mineral fertilizer to China 6% year-on-year to nearly 5 million tonnes, totaling US$1.6 billion, up 12% year-on-year, in 2025, according to data from China’s General Administration of Customs. This was mainly China increasing its imports of potash fertilizer, the primary fertilizer imported from Russia, 9% year-on-year to 4.6 million tonnes, worth

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Putin Ready To Accept Membership Of Trump’s “Board Of Peace” Initiative

Finance, Middle East, Russian Market

Moscow is ready to contribute to US President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ initiative, President Vladimir Putin told the Russian Security Council on Wednesday (January 21). He suggested donating the required US$1 billion membership fee to the body out of the Russian assets frozen in the US to support the recovery of the Palestinian enclave.

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The Arctic: Structural Power, Strategic Geography, and the Real Balance of Military Forces in the High North

Europe, Infrastructure, Investment, Logistics & Transport, Russian Market, Security, Trade

For much of the post-Cold War period, the Arctic existed outside the main currents of global geopolitics. Covered by ice, distant from population centers, and governed by cooperative mechanisms, the High North was widely perceived as a region immune to confrontation. This assumption has gradually dissolved. Climate transformation, technological adaptation, and global power redistribution have

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RUSSIA'S PIVOT TO ASIA

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Russia's Pivot to Asia