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Russia’s Mutual Fund Investment Market Expands To Record Capital Volumes

2024 was a banner year for Russia’s collective investment markets, which expanded with a record number of mutual funds and the largest number of new management companies for over a decade. Wealthy investors – including foreign investors – are primarily interested in Russian industry. Since sanctions were imposed in 2022, Russian investors have been limited […]

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January 29, 2025

Chinese Industrial Manufacturers Investing Into Russia To Access CIS Markets    

Torklink Controls, a partner of the Chinese company Flowinn, is investing over ₽100 million (US$1 million) into an assembly plant for electric actuators for pipeline valves at the Yesipovo Industrial Park in the Solnechnogorsk region of Moscow. The investment is typical of the type of Foreign Direct Investment Russia is now attracting, as Chinese manufacturers […]

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January 29, 2025

Russia’s Roscosmos Catching Up With SpaceX’s Reusable Rocket Technology

Russa’s Roscosmos Space Agency is developing the Amur-SPG launch vehicle with a reusable first stage to be in use by 2030, according to Roscosmos head Yury Borisov. He was speaking at the 49th Korolyov Academic Readings on Cosmonautics on Tuesday (January 28). The Amur-SPG, also known as the Soyuz-7 is a reusable, methane–fueled, orbital launch […]

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January 28, 2025

Russia, China Air Transport To Continue Development Beyond 197 Weekly Flights  

Meetings held between 15 Russian airlines and an aviation delegation from the Chinese Embassy have discussed the bilateral strengthening of cooperation in Russia-China passenger and cargo air transport. The meeting was chaired by Lev Kosinov, Head of the Department for Transportation Regulation and International Cooperation of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency. In volumes, during […]

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January 28, 2025

Russia’s Digital Financial Assets Grew Fourfold In 2024  

Russia’s digital financial assets market grew more than 4 times in 2024, according to the Russian ACRA credit rating agency. Although still developing and partially hampered by sanctions, the overall trend is positive, with holdings up to ₽150 billion by the end of last year. According to ACRA’s estimates, digital financial instruments in Russia have […]

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January 28, 2025

Can Russia And BRICS Produce A DeepSeek And Overtake ChatGPT?  

US stocks lost over US$1 trillion overnight (January 27) as China’s High Flyer, a Hedge Fund in Hangzhou, launched its Chinese chatbot, named ‘Deepseek’. The app appears to offer the same facilities as the US developed OpenAI and its ChatGPT tool, and the same performance but with fewer resources. Deepseek has already overtaken ChatGPT as […]

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January 27, 2025

China – Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Demo Zone TIR Shipments Increase

The China-SCO Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Demonstration Zone (China-SCOZ), which is based in China’s Qingdao Port in its Eastern Shandong Province, has been testing shipments to other Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries. By the end of 2024, the number of shipments of trucks utilizing the TIR system reached 283, according to Qingdao Customs. The […]

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January 27, 2025

Eurasian Economic Union Adopting Intelligent Transport Systems

The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission has approved a concept for improving the interaction of intelligent transport systems of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The EAEU includes Russia, as well as Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It has free trade agreements with China, Serbia, Iran, and Vietnam and is negotiating numerous others, including with […]

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