Russia's Pivot to Asia

BRICS, Russia and Turkiye:  2024 Developments and Implications

BRICS, Economy, Finance, Infrastructure, Investment, Trade

Vladimir Putin has met with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkiye at the BRICS Summit in Kazan. This is what they had to say: Putin: “Once again, I would like to welcome everyone to Kazan and to repeat how much I appreciate it that you have accepted the invitation to attend the BRICS Plus/Outreach […]

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BRICS, Russia and Iran: 2024 Developments and Implications 

BRICS, Eurasian Economic Union, Security, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Vladimir Putin has met with Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran at the BRICS Summit in Kazan. This is what they had to say: Putin: “This visit to Russia is your first as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and this has great symbolic importance. Iran has become a full participant of BRICS, and

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BRICS and the New Development Bank: 2024 Progress Report and Potential Expansion

BRICS, Economy, Finance, Infrastructure, Investment

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has met with the President of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), Dilma Rousseff. The NDB acts as a BRICS development platform and invests in infrastructure projects, often in the green sector, in BRICS nations. Equity investors include Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Russia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates,

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Chinese and Vietnamese Banks Interested In Opening Branches In Russia

China, Finance, Trade

Chinese and Vietnamese banks are interested in expanding into and opening branches in Russia, according to Anatoly Aksakov, the Chairman of the State Duma’s Financial Market Committee. Aksakov is also the head of the Association of Banks of Russia’s council. He said “Several credit organizations from China, not the top tier or largest ones, are

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Russia’s Unusual, British, Slippery, and Fishy Bilateral Eel Trade

Agriculture, Imports, Investment, Miscellaneous, Trade

Russia has been buying millions of eels from the UK’s only eel supplier, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper. It is a bilateral trade that raises almost as many questions as the surprising nature of the trade itself. The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a protected, red-listed species, with the number of elvers

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