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Although China has currently suspended Russian electricity imports, it purchased 306.5 million kWh in 2025, according to data from the Chinese customs administration. In monetary terms, this amounted to US$13.97 million. The sole electricity export/import operator in Russia, Inter RAO, has not yet published its data for 2025. The company reported supplying 900 million kWh […]
Russia’s Kirill Dmitriev is to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos meeting of global leaders, the first time a Russian has attended since the WEF suspended participation in 2022. Dimitriev is the CEO of Russia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, RDIF and has been involved in negotiations over settling the Ukraine conflict. He is due to […]
Further proof of European acquiescence to the United States has shown itself in that European mergers and acquisitions (M&A) lawyers now need to gain accreditation in the United States to handle some cross-border M&A deals in the European Union itself. The convoluted arrangement has manifested itself through a complex agreement concerning Russia’s Gazprom and Hungary’s […]
Russia’s Rosatom state owned nuclear power company is preparing to start operation of the first power unit of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant in Turkiye, doing start-up and adjustment work and a comprehensive check of all systems. The final control stage, cold and hot break-in, is expected to be implemented in the near future before […]
China has suspended its electricity purchases from Russia from January 1, the result of high export prices, which exceeded domestic Chinese prices for the first time. However, the cessation is likely to be medium term and resume next year when prices readjust. Inter RAO (an export-import operator) exports surplus electricity from the Russian Far East […]
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Namibia’s Foreign Minister, Selma Ashipala-Musavyi visited Moscow from January 12 to 14), with the symbolism important but the trade, economics and investment dialogues more vital. Three decades after Namibia’s independence and more than sixty years after the Soviet Union first backed the South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) during the liberation struggle, Windhoek and Moscow […]
Russia’s Roszarubezhneft (a state-owned structure that manages Russia’s oil assets in Venezuela) is continuing to fulfill its obligations with its international partners, and it intends to further develop its assets with the Venezuelan side, according to a company statement. Roszarubezhneft is the Venezuelan subsidiary of Russian SOE Zarubezhneft, which manages Russia’s overseas oil operations. The […]
A landmark of sorts has been reached as Russia’s Gazprom supplied 38.8 billion cubic meters of gas to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline in 2025. That is 24.8% higher than the 2024 figure and means that the company exported more pipeline gas to China than to European countries—including Turkiye. While the UK and […]
The future of Greenland has again been placed on the front page news following the success of the United States operation in kidnapping the Venezuelan President, Nicholas Maduro, and forcibly repatriating him to the United States. That brazen operation has a sequel – renewed calls for Greenland to be taken over by the United States […]
Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has held a phone call with Venezuelan Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez, shortly after US President Donald Trump announced that following attacks on Venezuela, American special forces had captured and taken the nation’s leader, Nicolas Maduro, out of the country and forcibly taken him prisoner to the United States. “Lavrov […]
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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