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Featured March 16, 2024

Russian Auto Market Sales Grew 80% In February 2024

The market for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles in Russia grew 80% in February 2024 and is forecast to continue growing in March, the Association of European Businesses (AEB) has stated in a press release. The AEB is the main representative body of foreign investors in Russia. Based on calculations by the AEB Committee […]

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Featured March 16, 2024

Moscow Stock Exchange Expecting 20+ IPOS In 2024

The Moscow Stock Exchange (MOEX) has seen an increase in domestic Russian corporate interest for conducting IPOs and SPOs compared to 2023; with more than 20 transactions potentially taking place in 2024, according to Vladimir Krekoten, the Managing Director of the exchange. Krekoten was speaking at the ‘Financial Markets: New Guidelines in a Changing World’ […]

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March 16, 2024

Putin Approves US$6.6 -Billion-Dollar High Speed Moscow-St. Petersburg Railway

Russian President Putin has approved the construction of the delayed High-Speed Moscow-St.Petersburg railway. Discussions on a new link were prominent in 2019, but Covid issues put the project on hold. However, in February this year, a masterplan for the Moscow-St. Petersburg line was agreed. Construction is to start immediately.    At present, one line runs […]

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March 16, 2024

EAEU Industrial Output Up 4.7% In January 2024

Industrial output in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries rose 4.7% year-on-year in January, with all EAEU countries demonstrating growth, the EAEU press service has said, stating “The EAEU had an industrial production volume of 104.7% in January 2024, on par with January 2023.” Armenia had industrial output growth of 21%, Belarus of 5.4%, Kazakhstan […]

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March 15, 2024

Russian Economy To Be World’s Fourth Largest By 2030

The Russian economy will become the fourth largest economy in the world before 2030, with sustainable growth at a rate of at least 2% per year and gradual acceleration to 3%. This will yield approximately 20% growth by 2030, Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov said at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin […]

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March 15, 2024

EAEU, Mongolia Complete Preparations For Temporary Free Trade Agreement

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Mongolia intend to complete the preparation of a temporary agreement on setting up a free trade zone by the end of 2024, the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) said following consultations with Mongolian representatives earlier this week. The EAEU includes Russia in addition to Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It […]

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March 14, 2024

Russia To Develop Cinematic Film Production With Asian Partners    

Russia’s Minister of Culture, Olga Lyubimova has stated (March 13) that numerous Asian countries are interested in developing cinematography together with Russia and conducting joint film production, and that this will be fully supported by the government. Lyubimova said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 that “We have joint production, and have formalized the possibility […]

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March 14, 2024

Russian Foreign Investors Redomiciling To Kazakhstan

The Kazakh Minister of National Economy Bauyrzhan Kudaibergenov, has said that over 40 foreign investor, with assets worth more than US$1.5 billion have completed the process of relocation from Russia to Kazakhstan. “Today, the government is working on the relocation of foreign companies, including large enterprises. We have about 400 companies from more than 30 […]

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March 14, 2024

Russia To Develop Domestic Price Indicators And Remove World Pricing Tags

The Russian State Duma has approved in the first reading this March, a bill on the gradual decoupling of prices for goods on the domestic market of Russia from global indicators. This means about the possibility of the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) to not take these into account when determining the monopoly high and […]

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March 14, 2024

Developing a SWIFT Alternative Digital Currency Global Trading System

As geopolitics reshape the contours of physical commerce, digital services remain one area where sovereign countries can engage between each other with relative freedom, during a period where certain nations around the world are erecting new politicized barriers, controlling, restricting, or sanctioning trade in goods like minerals, raw materials, food, through to services, semiconductors and […]

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