Turkiye is to discuss BRICS membership next week. We detail Turkiye’s trade with the bloc. October 25 Update: Turkiye has now been granted ‘BRICS Partner’ status. See more here. Over the past two years, Turkiye’s trade figures with most of the eleven BRICS members have shown significant growth. Now, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has […]
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The 2024 BRICS Games are to be held in Kazan, Russia from June 12-23, with 5,000 participants from 97 countries expected to participate, according to the BRICS Games Organizing Committee. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko said that “Russia chairs the BRICS in 2024, and this site has priority importance to our country under the
The Foreign Ministry of the Taliban movement (which is currently banned in Russia as a terrorist organization), which controls Afghanistan, has welcomed Russia’s declared intention to build bilateral relations. Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesperson for the Taliban Foreign Ministry, said that “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan welcomes comments by the
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October 25 Update: Thailand has now been granted ‘BRICS Partner’ status. See more here. Thailand will apply to become a member of the BRICS economic bloc, the Thai government in Bangkok announced on Tuesday (May 28). Government spokesman Chai Wacharonke said that the Thai cabinet has approved the text of the official letter expressing Thailand’s
South Africa’s PetroSA and Russia’s Gazprombank are currently investigating the feasibility of restarting operations at South Africa’s gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel plant in Mossel Bay in South Africa’s Western Cape. PetroSA spokeswoman Nonny Mashika-Dennison has said that all factors affecting the viability of restarting operations at the refinery were being considered as part of a comprehensive
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India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has stated that New Delhi’s decision to purchase energy supplies from Moscow are pivotal to India and its rise as the world’s fastest-growing large economy. Speaking at an event in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, Jaishankar emphasized that the nation’s purchases of Russian crude since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict
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Rustam Habibullin, the head of the Russian Business Center in Afghanistan, has said that the trade turnover between Russia and Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US and NATO forces has increased significantly and reached US$1 billion. He stated that the main areas of trade are gas, oil products, flour and wheat, and more recently, dairy
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The Yuzhnouralsky Dry Port and Rusagrotek LLC have sent the first container train with agricultural products from Chelyabinsk to Zabaikalsk, one of the China border crossings. The train will proceed to Chengdu in China’s Sichuan Province, with the total travel time estimated at 14 days. The train consists of 70 forty-foot containers. The route was
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Imports of metallurgical coal from Russia have grown three-fold in the last three years to around 15.1 million tonnes in 2023-24 mainly due to lower prices – while the same imports from Australia have declined, according to Indian research firm Big Mint. Russia’s share in India’s metallurgical coal imports of 73.2 million tonnes has risen
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Brazilian imports of diesel oil from Russia last year soared 4,600% while purchases of fuel oil rose by almost 400%, in a US$8.6 billion boost to the Russian economy. Brasília imported 6.1 million tonnes of diesel from Russia in 2023, a 6,000% increase from the 101,000 tonnes the previous year. The value in dollar terms
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