Russia exported dairy products worth more than US$500 million in 2025, with supplies going to almost 100 countries worldwide, the head of the Agroexport federal center Ilya Ilyushin, said at the third forum of dairy industry leaders in Moscow on Tuesday (January 20). The final sales volumes are likely to be higher, as the December […]
Although China has currently suspended Russian electricity imports, it purchased 306.5 million kWh in 2025, according to data from the Chinese customs administration. In monetary terms, this amounted to US$13.97 million. The sole electricity export/import operator in Russia, Inter RAO, has not yet published its data for 2025. The company reported supplying 900 million kWh […]
Russian fertilizer giant Uralchem has completed the delivery of 30,000 metric tons of potash to Bangladesh as a humanitarian gesture, the company announced on Monday (January 19). The donation was conducted under the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). This is the company’s seventh donation in a series of humanitarian deliveries to developing countries since […]
The first Russian Orthodox church in Mauritius was consecrated on Sunday, (January 18) on Epiphany Eve, the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa has announced. The exarchate, part of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, stated that Metropolitan Konstantin of Cairo and North Africa, who is temporarily overseeing the South African Diocese, performed the rite […]
Russia’s Kirill Dmitriev is to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos meeting of global leaders, the first time a Russian has attended since the WEF suspended participation in 2022. Dimitriev is the CEO of Russia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, RDIF and has been involved in negotiations over settling the Ukraine conflict. He is due to […]
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Russia’s Okto Group are negotiating with their fellow Russian mining company Nordgold to purchase a gold mine in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The deal amount for the sale of Nordgold’s assets in Burkina Faso is estimated at being over US$1 billion. According to the latest disclosed data (for 2021), the combined production of Nordgold’s mines […]
Further proof of European acquiescence to the United States has shown itself in that European mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyers now need to gain accreditation in the United States to handle some cross-border M&A deals in the European Union itself. The convoluted arrangement has manifested itself through a complex agreement concerning Russia’s Gazprom and Hungary’s […]
Russia’s Rosatom state owned nuclear power company is preparing to start operation of the first power unit of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Turkiye, doing start-up and adjustment work and a comprehensive check of all systems. The final control stage, cold and hot break-in, is expected to be implemented in the near future before […]
Russia’s fishing industry has discontinued the use of the UK’s Inmarsat satellite terminals to track its fishing vessels. Instead, it has switched to using exclusively Russian orbital constellations (Gonets, Yamal and Express) since January 1 to transmit vessel location data to the industry monitoring system (IMS), the Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo) has stated. The move […]
Russia is ready to increase wheat exports to Mexico and is capable of quickly meeting local demand, Russian diplomats have stated, with Mexico currently experiencing a grain shortage due to a series of droughts. There are stumbling blocks: Russian companies remain highly interested in the Mexican market, but the development of these trade relations is […]
The new threats by US President Donald Trump to place an additional 25% tariffs on European exports entering US markets emphasize just how naïve European politicians have been when it comes to international diplomacy and foreign affairs. In threatening such measures should the EU (and specifically Denmark) do not agree to cede Greenland to the […]
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