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Featured April 16, 2024

Northern Sea Route To Be A Major Part Of The Belt & Road Initiative

The Arctic, endowed with significant resource wealth, is envisioned as an advantageous multimodal transportation link that presently enables a connection between the Asia-Pacific and European regions. Legal issues surrounding the Arctic’s jurisdiction provoke contention over rights to these lands, drawing in not just the circumjacent sovereign states but also nations keen on making inroads into […]

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Featured April 16, 2024

Russia’s Pivot To Asia – Complimentary Download

Our much-praised Russia’s Pivot To Asia PDF Guide is now available for download. This comprehensive book contains details of Russia’s trade and development with over 80 countries as well as analysis on new supply chain routes, trade agreements, and Russia’s involvement with the BRICS, EAEU, SCO and Belt & Road Initiative. Contents include: Russia & […]

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April 16, 2024

Ethiopia Calls For Alternative BRICS Monetary System

The Ethiopian Ambassador to Russia, Cham Ugala Uriat has said that the BRICS members should work together to strengthen their economies, and create an alternative international monetary system, including an alternative to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He specifically stated that the Shanghai-based New Development Bank (NDB), established by the BRICS states and opened for […]

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April 16, 2024

89% Of Microchips Exported To Russia Come From China

The sanctions imposed by the United States, which aimed to disrupt Russia’s military capabilities by limiting its access to advanced chips are only having limited results. While Russian entities can no longer get chips directly from American, European, Japanese, and Taiwanese companies, Russia continues to obtain advanced processors mainly through indirect channels, primarily involving Chinese […]

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April 15, 2024

First Shipment Of Russian Pork Delivered To China

The first shipment of Russian pork has been delivered to the Chinese market according to Miratorg, the first company to begin deliveries after China lifted restrictions on Russian pork imports last September. China is the world’s largest importer of the meat, worth some US$4.5 billion annually. It is a prized market for global pork producers, […]

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April 14, 2024

Mali To Use Russia’s MIR Payment System

In further signs that the Europe-Africa dynamics are changing, Mali, which has recently cancelled colonial-era agreements with France, has said that the country is interested in using Russia’s MIR payments system. Badra Alou Coulibaly, the West African nation’s general controller of public services, said that the move will strengthen the existing “significant level” of cooperation […]

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April 14, 2024

Eurasian Economic Union Industrial Production Up 6.6%

Despite Western sanctions on Russia and the threat of sanctions being levied upon several Central Asian countries, industrial production in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) increased by 6.6% in January-February of this year, the press service of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) reported on Tuesday. The ECC is the management board of the EAEU. Industrial […]

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April 14, 2024

MTS Bank To Issue An IPO On Moscow Stock Exchange

Russia’s MTS Bank, the fintech arm of Russia’s leading mobile phone operator MTS, has announced plans to carry out an initial public offering of its common shares on the Moscow Stock Exchange. Investors will be offered newly issued shares, with the proceeds from the IPO used to implement the bank’s growth strategy and further scale […]

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April 13, 2024

Russian Car-Sharing Service Opens Sourcing Office In Shanghai

The auto fleet servicing subsidiary of Russian carsharing service Delimobil , Smart Mobility Management LLC (SMM) opened an office in China this year for direct purchases of spare parts, the company reported in notes to its financial statements for 2023. The office was opened in Shanghai to “look for new counterparties, partners, investors and establish […]

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April 12, 2024

This Weeks Russia-China Foreign Ministers Meetings: Results & Analysis

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov completed a two-day visit to Beijing on Tuesday, where he met both Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and President Xi Jinping. In many ways, his trip was preparation for the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to China, whose plans were confirmed by the Kremlin on the same day. During […]

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