Russia-Africa trade reached US$35 billion in 2025 with Russian exports including grain, dairy, and poultry exports, while African agricultural imports (coffee, fruit) to Russia also surged. Key areas include agricultural goods, military contracts, and nuclear energy, with Russia actively reducing trade barriers and diversifying into the processed foods and high-tech sectors. We cover Russia-Africa trade, investment, and market entry opportunities and provide your guide to navigating the commercial landscape and forging strategic partnerships for growth in Africa’s emerging markets.
Chicken Wars: Russia has been developing a ‘super chicken’ aimed at competing with dominant Western varietals. With food security and Western sanctions and trade tariffs now a concern for China as well as smaller economies, Russia’s varietal is less expensive, apparently better quality and looks set to compete on a global basis.
The Russia -Thailand Joint Trade Commission has met in Moscow, with Thailand pushing hard for a Free Trade Agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union. We deep dive the bilateral relationship, in a complementary trade and services basket that could see their trade increase to US$5 billion by 2030.
Russia has increased its exports of agricultural produce to China by 34.4% this year, with China wanting to diversify supplies of critical imports such as soy beans, crucial for maintaining China’s massive livestock industry.
Russia and South Korea have both increased their ice cream exports into each others markets. Young Russian consumers are buying into the K-Pop phenomena while Soviet classic recipes are nostalgic and popular with older Koreans.
The 2026 Russian-Mexican Business Forum has just taken place in Moscow. While bilateral trade remains small, it is growing. We examine the current trends and prospects in tourism, agriculture, energy and investment and issues to overcome in a trade relationship that looks poised to take off.
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Russia presented the concept and structure of the proposed BRICS Grain Exchange and how it will work at the 16th meeting of the BRICS Economic and Foreign Trade ministers in Jaipur last week, according to the Russian Economic Development Ministry. Russia proposed to create the BRICS Grain Exchange as a unified digital trading platform where […]
Russia exported over 25,000 tonnes of crabs to China in the first half of 2026, up 25% year-on-year, and increased revenue from these exports by more than a third to US$697 million, according to data from China’s General Customs Administration. Russia’s Fish Union stated that demand for crabs in China was growing, partly due to […]
Russia has exported the first shipment of soft wheat since 2023 to Colombia from Novorossiysk, the Novorossiysk branch of the Federal Center for Assessment of Safety and Quality of Agricultural Products (FSBI SQA) has said, stating that “Specialists from the Novorossiysk branch of the FSBI SQA examined five shipments of Russian soft wheat totaling 16,000 […]
Russia’s agricultural trade with Turkiye has increased by 30% in H1 2026, with Russia exporting beef, grains, legumes, and oil and fat products, and Turkiye exporting fish products, fruits, and citrus fruits. The two countries are looking at ways to double trade volumes by 2030.
Russia has become the world’s second largest supplier of coriander spice to the global market, according to the Russian Agroexport federal center. India is the largest exporter, while most of Russia’s exports go to ASEAN, Central Asia and the Middle East.
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, recently met with Guinea-Bissau’s Foreign Minister Fatumata Jau in Moscow. Although the current bilateral trade dynamics are modest, Guinea-Bissau is strategically positioned on West Africa’s Atlantic coast and could be developed as a Russian gateway into African and Asian export markets. We provide a comprehensive overview of how this could emerge.
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