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Russian President Putin Meets With Chinese Premier Li Qiang: Statements & Analysis 

China, Economy, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has held discussions with Chinese Premier Li Qiang, who is visiting Moscow to take part in the annual Heads of Government meetings of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. Russia is the current chair. Putin’s comments are prefixed with VP, Li Qiang’s with LQ, and our comments as RPA. This is what […]

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Another Russian Company Seeks A Domestic IPO In The Face Of Increasing Retail Sales

Economy, Finance, Russia, Trade

In the wake of successful IPOs in Russia over the past two years, another Russian domestic market player has announced plans to list in early 2026. This is WineLab, the retail arm of the Novabev Group, one of Russia’s biggest producers and distributors of alcoholic beverages. The company said in reporting for the first half

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Africa

Russia’s Developing Trade & Investment In Africa: Background and Current Status

Africa, Economy, Energy, Exports, Finance, Imports, Infrastructure, Investment, Trade

By Charles van der Leeuw Russia’s return to serious trade and investment on the African continent only seriously took off almost three decades after the breakup of the Soviet Union. The legacy the USSR had left in Africa remained untouched by western powers for a long time, and when China, in 2014, announced its Belt

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DOM.RF To Conduct A November IPO On The Moscow Stock Exchange

Economy, Finance, Infrastructure, Investment, Russia

PJSC DOM.RF has announced plans for an IPO on the Moscow Exchange, with the planning to obtain a listing and start trading its shares on the Moscow Exchange this month. The shares are expected to be included in the first-tier list. DOM RF are a Russian state-owned financial services and property management company involved in

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Russia Relaxes VAT Threshold Payments For Its SMEs by 50%

Economy, Finance, Investment, Regulatory, Russia

The Russian government has accounted for the wishes of businesses and members of parliament and proposed a gradual transition to VAT payment for small- and medium-sized businesses on a simplified tax system, lowering the payment revenue mechanism from a threshold of ₽20 million (US$245,000) to ₽10 million (US$125,000) over the coming three years, Prime Minister

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The IMF Have Not Visited Either Russia Or Belarus This Decade. How Can Their Economic Analysis Be Accurate? 

Commonwealth of Independent States, Economy, Eurasian Economic Union, Finance, Regulatory

Russian academics have begun questioning the level of economic and political intelligence being cited by the West when it comes its collective analysis of Russia, with many perplexed about how the West so consistently sticks to its statements that it is being threatened by Russia, that the country is collapsing, and economic decline is imminent.

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The Impartiality Of The Kyiv School of Economics – As Vested Interests Interfere

Economy, Finance, Russia

The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) has become the de facto go-to resource for Western economic intelligence about both Ukraine and Russia, with especially the Financial Times regularly quoting its research and statistics. Yet how impartial and honest is its data?   The KSE functions as a non-state think tank, however, is funded by donors such

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Diamonds

India’s Gem Processing Industry Destabilized Due To US-Introduced Chaos Over Russian Raw Diamonds

Economy, Exports, India, Russia, Trade

First, the good news: Russia doubled its diamond exports to India year on year in August, according to data from India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry. They surged to a value of US$31.3 million in August 2025, more than double the US$13.4 million recorded in August 2024. Russia is the world’s largest producer of rough

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China-Russia Bilateral Relations – November 2025 Update

Asia, China, Economy, Exports, Finance, Imports, Investment, Trade

The Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met with their respective business delegations at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Mishustin was accompanied by Deputy Prime Ministers Tatyana Golikova, Dmitry Chernyshenko, Yury Trutnev and Alexander Novak, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to China Igor Morgulov, Minister of Agriculture

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Europe

Is Europe Being Cast Adrift?

Asia, China, Economy, India, Infrastructure, Russia, Trade

Over the past few weeks, grumbles of discontent have begun emerging from the European population, about what appears to economic issues directly created by sanctions imposed upon Russia. These range from Finnish resorts bemoaning the lack of Russian tourists, Italian resorts closing, and Lithuanian cigarette smugglers causing chaos over ballooning in cheap products from Belarus.

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