BRICS

Russia-Turkiye 2024 Relations: BRICS, Black Sea and US$100 Billion Trade Discussions

BRICS, Energy, Security, Trade

Russia’s Deputy Foreign Ministers Sergei Vershinin and Alexander Grushko met with Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Mehmet Kemal Bozay in Moscow, for consultations to discuss the implementation of strategic economic and energy projects along with regional agenda items. The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that “The two parties had a substantive exchange of opinions on key […]

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Zimbabwe Academic Compares IMF With BRICS Bank

BRICS, Economy, Finance, Trade

Kudzai Dominic Chiwenga, an associate professor at the University of Zimbabwe, has spoken about currency strategies and compared the World Banks ‘International Monetary Fund’ (IMF) with the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB). The NDB, he has said, provides more flexible and supportive terms than the IMF. Chiwenga, who is also the Chairman of the Zimbabwe-Russia

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Lavrov EAS

Russian Remarks At The Conclusion Of The East Asia Summit: Q&A and Analysis

BRICS, Eurasian Economic Union, Security, Trade

Russia has been participating in the annual East Asia Summit in Vientiane, Laos, with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov representing the Russian Federation. Other attendees included all the ASEAN nations (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) together with Australia, Japan, South Korea, the European Union and the United States.  The

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Iran

Putin Meets With Iranian President Pezeshkian; Discusses Security, Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement

BRICS, Energy, Eurasian Economic Union, Security, Trade

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian in Ashgabat. Their first face-to-face meeting since Pezeshkian was elected President of Iran in July, although they had telephone conversations during this time. The talks come at a key time for Middle-Eastern relations, with Israel expanding its military aggression, Yemen attacking Western shipping in

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Russia – East Asia 2024 Multilateral Relations – Update

BRICS, China, Security, Trade

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has been in Laos, attending meetings of the East Asia Summit, which included 18 partners, including Russia, being the United States, the European Union, Japan, Australia, South Korea, India and China, and the members of ASEAN. This also includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and

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Chinese Companies Become The Largest Foreign Investors and Revenue Generators in Russia

BRICS, China, Foreign Investment, Trade

The redistribution of foreign participation in the Russian market over the past two years has resulted in Chinese investors becoming the largest source of foreign investment into the country. In the first nine months of 2024, the number of Russian registered companies with Chinese equity increased by 32% over the same period in 2023, according

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Is European Myopia Towards Russia Damaging Its Ability To Recover Its Economies?

BRICS, Economy, Security, Trade

Or: Is This Article Russian Propaganda or an Intellectual Debate? You Decide.  The extraordinary lengths to which Europe has gone to support Ukraine – and in turn, seek to turn public support for the countries leadership and therefore pursue a highly aggressive anti-Russian stance are unprecedented over the past century. Never to such an extent

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China Russia

China Needs A Strong Russia, While Russia Needs A Stable China – Russian Foreign Minister

BRICS, China, Energy, Trade

The Russia-China relationship has been the focus of ongoing conjecture in the West, much of it referring to how Beijing will eventually outmanoeuvre Moscow and subsume Russia either via land grabs or financial coercion. Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, has weighed in on the debate by stating, somewhat enigmatically, that “Our friendly and good-neighbourly relations

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