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S7 Dubai

S7 Airlines To Provide Moscow – Dubai Direct Flights From End of September

BRICS, Energy, Logistics & Transport, Trade

S7 Airlines plans to launch flights from Moscow to Dubai beginning on September 30, the company has stated. S7 will operate the flights four times per week, on Mondays to Dubai International Airport (DXB), and on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays to Al Maktoum Airport (DWC). They will use narrow-body Boeing 737-800 aircraft that could accommodate […]

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Lavrov GCC

Russia – Gulf Cooperation Council Trade & Relations: Update

BRICS, Energy, Eurasian Economic Union, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov has arrived in Saudi Arabia for a Russia-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ministerial conference. He will attend a ministerial meeting of the Russia-GCC Strategic Dialogue and will have several additional bilateral meetings. The Gulf Cooperation Council is a regional free trade organization comprising Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and

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UB Power

Russia, Mongolia Agree To Modernise Ulaan Baatar’s Soviet-Era Coal Power Station

Energy, Eurasian Economic Union, Investment, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Talks are also underway about building a small nuclear power plant and new Kharkhorum city  During Russian President’s Vladimir Putin’s visit to Mongolia, the two countries have agreed on a project to modernize the No. 3 Combined Heat and Power Plant in Ulaanbaatar. An intergovernmental agreement was signed on front end engineering design for Ulaanbaatar

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Russia Provides Tajikistan With Wind Farm Energy Investment Proposal 

Commonwealth of Independent States, Energy, Eurasian Economic Union, Infrastructure, Investment, Trade

Russia’s Rosatom has presented an investment project to Tajikistan to build renewable energy facilities with capacity of up to 1 GW. The project was discussed during meetings between Russia’s trade mission in Tajikistan, Rosatom Renewable Energy and Tajikistan’s Energy and Water Resources Ministry. Tajik Deputy Energy Minister Manuchehr Safarzoda said his country has huge potential

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Russia Providing Nuclear Power Assistance To Zimbabwe

Africa, Energy, Infrastructure, Investment, Trade

Zimbabwe’s minister of primary and secondary education, Torerayi Moyo, has stated his thanks to Russia for assistance in training specialists in the Zimbabwean nuclear power and space industries. Moyo stated that Zimbabwe aims to build a nuclear power plant and develop its nuclear energy sector as part of the country’s broader industrialization goals. He said

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Moscow Hosting BRICS International Municipal Forum   

Africa, BRICS, China, Energy, India, Infrastructure, Investment

Moscow is hosting the BRICS International Municipal Forum (IMBRICS) from August 27/28, an event that is bringing together city mayors and related municipal officials from 126 countries, 89 Russian regions and 500 cities to discuss and share information on municipal and urban planning. The Government of Moscow is acting as the General Partner of the IMBRICS

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Russia, India Looking At Nuclear Energy Joint Ventures and Additional Nuclear Power Plants

Energy, India, Investment, Trade

India’s Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL), is considering forming a joint venture with Rosatom for manufacturing nuclear fuel in the country to boost its nuclear capability. Russia is already helping build the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in southern India, set to be the largest atomic power plant in the country. That NPP

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Russia and China Oil

Russia’s Natural Resource Exports to China In H1 2024 Reach New Highs

China, Energy, Trade

Russia’s natural resource trade with China exceeded US$65 billion in H1 2024, according to China’s Ministry of Customs, reaching record levels. Overall, Russian exports of natural resources to China increased by 4% over the same period last year, year-on-year, reaching a new high of US$65.2 billion between January and June of this year. Oil and

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Russia’s Shadow Fleet Evades Sanctions While Western Maritime Shipping Faces Problems

Energy, Logistics & Transport, Trade

The 2022 price cap on oil sanctions that placed a limit of US$60 per barrel on Russian crude, are another example where ill-thought out economic policies matched with related geopolitical movements have instead created problems for the West’s own shipping supply chains. The oil cap sanctions, introduced in September 2022, were intended to limit the

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Rosatom Building Nuclear Power and Solar Energy Plants in Burkina Faso and Mali

Africa, Energy, Investment, Trade

Russia’s energy development strategy continues in the Sahel region of Africa, where engineers from the Rosatom, the state nuclear energy company, are on a four-day visit to Burkina Faso to discuss building a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in the country. Burkina Faso, previously the French colony of Upper Volta, is one of the world’s least

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