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Russia – Iran Bilateral 2024 Relations: Update 

Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Russia’s Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin met with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref in Tehran on September 30 (Monday), with the discussions coming as fears grow of a Middle-East war.  However, the talks, at least officially, focused on bilateral cooperation between the two nations, the expansion and diversification of trade, as […]

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Russia – Uzbekistan 2024 Bilateral Relations: Update 

Eurasian Economic Union, Security, Trade

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been in New York attending the annual UN General Assembly. During the UN events, several other bilateral meetings were held as numerous countries wish to discuss current affairs with Moscow. Lavrov subsequently met with Bakhtiyor Saidov, the Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan. The ministers discussed current issues on the agenda

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Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan Discuss Afghanistan Security and Reconstruction 

China, Security, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been in New York attending the annual UN General Assembly. Russia, China, Iran and Pakistan are full members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and Afghanistan is an observer country. Afghan representatives did not attend the meeting having been denied US Visas because some members of the government are on

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Russia – Morocco 2024 Bilateral Relations: Update

Africa, Exports, Trade

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been in New York attending the annual UN General Assembly. During the UN events, several other bilateral meetings were held as numerous countries wish to discuss current affairs with Moscow. Lavrov subsequently met with Nasser Bourita, Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Cooperation. The ministers focused on priorities

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Russia – Syria 2024 Bilateral Relations: Update  

Energy, Infrastructure, Trade

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been in New York attending the annual UN General Assembly. During the UN events, several other bilateral meetings were held as numerous countries wish to discuss current affairs with Moscow. Lavrov subsequently met with Bassam al-Sabbagh, Syria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. In the course of the meeting, they had

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Russia – Jordan 2024 Bilateral Relations: Update  

Eurasian Economic Union, Security, Trade

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been in New York attending the annual UN General Assembly. During the UN events, several other bilateral meetings were held as numerous countries wish to discuss current affairs with Moscow. Lavrov subsequently met with Ayman Safadi, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan. The ministers

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Russia – Sudan 2024 Bilateral Relations: Update

Africa, Infrastructure, Security, Trade

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been in New York attending the annual UN General Assembly. During the UN events, several other bilateral meetings were held as numerous countries wish to discuss current affairs with Moscow. Lavrov subsequently met with Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Chairman of the Supreme (Sovereignty) Council of Sudan. Sudan is currently engaged

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Russia – Yemen 2024 Bilateral Relations: Update

Africa, BRICS, Energy, Investment, Trade

Russia’s Deputy Energy Minister Sergei Mochalnikov and Yemen’s Oil and Minerals Minister Saeed al-Shamasi, co-chairmen of the Russian-Yemeni intergovernmental commission, have been discussed the trade and economic cooperation between the two countries on fuel and energy on the sidelines of the Russian Energy Week. The two sides discussed interaction in industry, agriculture, and modernization of

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Putin Says BRICS Payment System In Progress, Nasdaq Says Would Disrupt US Dollar and Euro

BRICS, Economy, Finance, Trade

The Russian President Vladimir Putin has been speaking at the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow, and stated as part of his speech that the BRICS member nations are jointly developing a payment and settlement framework to be used for trading within the group. Putin stressed that supplies of Russian oil and gas to ‘friendly’

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