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Featured January 22, 2026

Russia’s Global Crustacean Exports Up 10% In 2025

Russia boosted crustacean exports by 10% year-on-year to 91,000 tonnes in physical terms, and increased revenues by 13% to over US$2 billion in 2025, according to the Russian Agriculture Ministry’s Agroexport center. The top 5 importers included China at US$1.2 billion, South Korea at around US$750 million, Japan at over US$33 million, Vietnam at over […]

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Featured January 21, 2026

Russian Global Dairy Exports Up 13%

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 […]

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January 21, 2026

Russia’s Uralchem Donates 30,000 Tons of Potash To Bangladesh

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 […]

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January 18, 2026

East Asia Grain Exports From Far East Russia: 2025 Data

Russian exports of grain and processed products from Primorye Krai in the Russian Far East reached 1.4 million tonnes in 2025, with the largest amounts registered for supplies to China, according to the Primorye Interregional Department of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor). A total of 281,100 tonnes were registered for export […]

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January 18, 2026

Russian 2025 Exports Of Soybean Oil To South Korea Up 3.2 Times

Russia boosted exports of soybean oil to South Korea 3.2-fold year-on-year to 5,500 tonnes in 2025 from 1,700 tonnes in 2024, setting an all-time high figure for supplies that began to this market in 2017, South Korea’s customs service has said. The value of shipments increased to US$6.4 million from US$1.8 million in 2024. Russia […]

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January 16, 2026

Russian Exports Of Grain Products To South Korea Up 70% In 2025

South Korea tripled its wheat imports from Russia to 202,700 tonnes in 2025, compared with 67,750 tonnes in 2024, the Korea Customs Service has reported. Imports of Russian corn increased to 323,700 tonnes, compared with 227,650 tonnes in 2024; however, Russian barley imports fell by almost 80% to 3,730 tonnes from 15,170 tonnes in 2024. […]

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January 6, 2026

The Emergence Of The Bipolar World

The unprovoked United States attacks on Venezuela – in which 40 Venezuelans are estimated to have died in the kidnapping and removal to the United States of the Venezuelan president—have been followed through with what appears could now be a civil war breaking out in the country. Meanwhile, US President Trump has issued ‘warnings’ to […]

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January 3, 2026

Russia Proposes Nuclear Power Plant & Uranium Mining Projects For Mongolia

Mongolia is considering Rosatom’s proposal to build a small nuclear power plant, according to Alexey Evsikov, the Russian Ambassador to Mongolia. At present, Ulaanbaatar, the capital city, is powered by two Soviet-era coal-powered plants, which are both archaic and highly polluting during the winter months. The Mongolian energy system is also under enormous strain even […]

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December 18, 2025

Despite SAARC Inactivity, Russia Can Expand Its Economic Footprint in South Asia Via BIMSTEC Momentum and Emerging Trade Opportunities

By design, South Asia should be one of the world’s most integrated economic regions. In reality, it remains one of the least connected. South Asia is not a marginal periphery of Eurasia as one of its demographics, economic, and logistical cores. Yet its regional institutions remain weaker than its potential. For Russia, this contradiction is […]

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December 15, 2025

How Russia Is Unlocking Arctic Trade and Investment for Asia

The Arctic Present and Future forum was held between December 9 and 10 in St. Petersburg,  and reaffirmed a simple but powerful truth: the Arctic is no longer a distant frontier of ice and exploration, but it is becoming one of the central arteries of the 21st-century global economy. Against a backdrop of geopolitical turbulence […]

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