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Featured March 24, 2024

Russian Economy At Investment Grade: Central Bank

The Russian economy is in the investment phase of growth, with investment activity at a record level and imports of investment goods are growing, according to Central Bank of Russia (CBR) Governor Elvira Nabiullina. She made the comments following a meeting of the regulator’s board, at which it held the key interest rate at 16%. […]

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Featured March 24, 2024

Prospects For BRICS Under Russia’s 2024 Chairmanship

The influential World Geostrategic Insights (WGI) forum has provided an interview with US-Russia expert Paul Goncharoff concerning Russia taking the Chairmanship for the BRICS group for 2024. The WGI also namechecked our own new Russia’s Pivot To Asia guide, which contains extensive chapters and details of the prospects for BRICS 2024. It can be downloaded […]

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March 24, 2024

Gazprom Starts Connecting Strategic Asian Gas Pipelines

Russian energy giant Gazprom has begun work aimed at linking the country’s gas pipelines into a nationwide gas transportation system, the company has announced on its official Telegram channel.  According to the announcement, the company launched construction of the 800km Belogorsk-Khabarovsk section of a new pipeline in Russia’s Far East, which will eventually connect the […]

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March 23, 2024

Russian Tourist Visits To Egypt Hit Record High In 2023

With the European Union fully suspending the visa-facilitation agreement between the European Union and Russia as part of sanctions in 2022, and European airlines no longer providing direct flights, alternative destinations for Russian nationals replacing European destinations are now in vogue. That trend can be seen in the tourist traffic from Russia to Egypt, which […]

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March 22, 2024

FRIDAY BIZARRE

Our Look Back At Some Of The Weeks Most Bizarre Russo Political Moments Democracy Rules, OK!   With the Russian elections over, the London-based real estate agency, in the (democratic) United Kingdom have fired a Russian employee for voting. The London real estate brokerage Egre announced her sacking after complaints from a Ukrainian activist, who […]

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March 22, 2024

Russia Targets 160 New Arctic Class Ships For Northern Sea Route By 2030

Rosatom, Russia’s nuclear powered icebreaker manufacturer, sees a need for 160 high-ice-class vessels to operate on the Northern Sea Route (NSR) by 2030 to export products from Arctic projects, according to a presentation by Vyacheslav Ruksha, Deputy General Director of Rosatom and Director of the NSR Directorate. Russia is the only country with a fleet […]

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March 22, 2024

Houthi Red Sea Attacks: “We Will Not Target Russian or Chinese Shipping”

The Yemen-based Houthi militants have told Russia and China that their ships can sail freely through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden without fear of being attacked. An understanding was reached during talks in Oman involving Russian and Chinese diplomats and senior Houthi political figures. The Houthi rebels have carried out dozens of drone […]

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March 21, 2024

Russia Has Doubled Its Oil Exports to Africa in 18 Months

Moscow has increased exports of petroleum products to African countries in recent years, despite Western sanctions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said. He made the statement in an interview for a documentary project on oil that was published on the Foreign Ministry’s website on March 21. He said that “We have doubled the export […]

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March 21, 2024

Russia, EAEU Discuss Priority Trade Developments

Bakytzhan Sagintayev, the Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) and President of Russia Vladimir Putin met during negotiations on March 19 in Moscow. The EEC is the regulatory body for the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) which includes Russia along with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It fits the geographic space between […]

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March 21, 2024

Russian Crude Oil Exports To Asia Increase  

Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) reveals that the European Union’s embargo on the purchase, import and transfer of Russian crude oil at the end of 2022 has had almost no impact on the total volume of Russian oil exports. As the following chart shows, this is due to other countries filling in the […]

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March 21, 2024

Russian Import Duties Up 6.4% In 2023

The Federal Customs Service of Russia has stated that it transferred tax and duty collected revenues to the State budget of ₽6.623 trillion (US$72.1 billion) which was 6.4% higher than in 2022. This came despite Western markets ceasing direct exports to Russia and shutting down their borders with Russia.   Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that […]

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