Norilsk Nickel (Nornickel) is the leader in Russia’s metals and mining industry, as well as the largest palladium and high-grade nickel producer and one of the largest producers of platinum and copper. Nornickel also produces cobalt, rhodium, silver, gold, iridium, ruthenium, selenium, tellurium, and sulfur. It has confirmed plans to develop major projects in Russia […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping has accepted an invitation to attend the celebration in Moscow of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War (World War Two), according to a statement announced by the Russian Ambassador to China, Igor Morgulov. Chinese authorities have not yet commented on the information. Morgulov stated that “The Chairman
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Russia exported 700,000 tonnes of confectionery products in 2024, up 8% year-on-year, while the value of these exports grew 10.3% to reach US$1.81 billion, according to the Russian Association of Confectionery Industry Enterprises. They were presenting at the “Confectionery Products of the 21st Century” conference in Moscow last week. The 2025 export forecast for Russian
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Russian pig farmers had a significant boost in 2024, when China, the world’s largest importer of pork, began accepting Russian pork from April. That has resulted in expectations that 2025 will be a record-breaking year in Russian pork meat exports. Yury Kovalev, the CEO of the National Union of Pig Breeders stated that Russia exported
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The upcoming BRICS Congress will take place in June, where it is planned to approve the creation of a BRICS Agrarian Alliance, according to Lyudmila Orlova, the President of the Russian National Movement of Conservation Agriculture. Orlova stated that “We held a round table in December and have now agreed on holding a congress and
Russia’s System Operator has proposed considering imports of electricity from China, constructing a 250 MW rapidly deployable gas turbine unit (GTU) and developing renewable energy sources as near-term measures to address the energy deficit in the Russian Far East. Fyodor Opadchy, Chairman of Unified Energy System (SO UES JSC) the System Operator, said that “In
Analysts at the Moscow-based Gaidar Institute’s Foreign Trade Laboratory (IEP) have stated that China-Russia trade dynamics show that the pressure of secondary sanctions on China began from March 2024, when they were first applied on a large scale. However, within four months, Russian exports to China had recovered, and by July the initial decline was
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Computer scientists from Russia and China have developed a breakthrough algorithm using information from reverse engineering video card accelerators. The algorithm allows gaming GPUs to be used for scientific computing. The innovation was achieved by specialists from Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, which was co-founded by Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Beijing Institute of Technology, and
The United States President, Donald Trump, has stated on his social media account that he intends to place 100% tariffs on all imports into the United States from BRICS countries if they discontinue using the US dollar in their multilateral trade relations and revert to using their own currencies. In this article we examine the
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Russia exported a record 33.6 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) last year, more than half of which went to the EU market, with Asia a close second, according to data from Belgium based, global analytics firm Kpler. The figure represents an increase of 4% from the previous record of 32.9 million tons set
Asia Now Buys 45% Of All Russian LNG, The European Union Purchased A Record 52% In 2024 Read More »
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