The EAEU Free Trade Bloc includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia and fills the economic space between Eastern Europe and Western China. With Free Trade Agreements now in place with China, Indonesia, Iran, Mongolia, Serbia, Singapore, the UAE and Vietnam, and negotiations well underway with India and Egypt, the EAEU is developing as a vast Eurasian trade space. Leverage the EAEU single market as we discuss business regulations, customs procedures, and trade advantages for companies operating within or trading with the Eurasian Economic Union.
Russia and Kazakhstan boosted agricultural trade 9.4% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2025, according to the Russian Agricultural Ministry. They made the announcement following talks held between Oksana Lut, Russia’s Agriculture Minister, and Aidarbek Saparov, the Kazakh Agriculture Minister. Mineral fertilizer trade also continued to grow and was up almost 42% year-on-year in […]
Russia’s Fanagoria, one of the countries largest winemaking companies, has begun exporting wines to Mongolia, the company has reported. It said that the wines were delivered to the California restaurant chain located in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar. It did not disclose the volume supplied. The California restaurants serve fusion cuisine popular with locals and expats alike. […]
Agricultural trade between Russia and Iran grew 20% in the first nine months of this year, according to Russia’s Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut and Iran’s Minister of Agriculture Jihad Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh. Russia also resumed exports of mineral fertilizers to Iran. Lut and Ghezeljeh also discussed prospects for cooperation in veterinary and phytosanitary surveillance. They […]
The state visit of President Vladimir Putin to the Kyrgyz Republic on 25–27 November and President Putin’s formal bilateral meeting with President Sadyr Japarov on November 26 mark a defining moment in the evolution of Russian–Kyrgyz comprehensive economic cooperation. While topics related to geopolitics and security formed part of the dialogue, the clear central axis […]
Russian and Iranian maritime shipping companies are looking in detail at creating a new maritime container line, according to Andrei Tarasenko, the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot). He was speaking at the 2025 Transport of Russia forum. Tarasenko said that Russia and Iran had reached specific agreements in […]
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The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has arrived on a three day visit to Kyrgyzstan, where he is meeting with the Kyrgyz President, Sadyr Japarov to discuss further development of the strategic partnership and allied relationship between Russia and Kyrgyzstan in various areas. A joint statement by the heads of state, as well as a number […]
Moscow has been hosting the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Heads of Government Summit, with the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, noting that Russia’s trade with SCO members has reached US$409 billion. He stated, “Russia’s trade turnover with SCO countries reached $409 billion in 2024 and continues to grow. Of course, the lion’s share of this is […]
Roza LLC, a subsidiary of Iran’s Golrang Industrial Group, is investing in a household chemicals plant in the Lotos Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Astrakhan. The SEZ stated in a press release that “As of November 1, 2025, the overall amount of investment in the project totals ₽1.25 billion, with production planned for 2027. The […]
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has met with Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, the President of Kazakhstan, in Moscow. This follows an Intergovernmental Commission meeting held in Astana a few days earlier, which we discussed here. Russia and Kazakhstan are both neighbours, ex-Soviet Union partners, and members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Eurasian Economic Union and […]
Kazakhstan and Russia have agreed to expand mutual trade in agricultural products and food at a meeting of their intergovernmental commission on cooperation (IGC) in Astana last week. The Kazakh delegation was headed by Deputy Prime Minister and National Economy Minister Serik Zhumangarin, and the Russian delegation was headed by Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk. […]
In signs that regional relations, impacted by the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, are now returning to normal, Armenia is considering the possibility of importing various goods from Russia by rail through Azerbaijan, according to Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Prime Minister. Armenia is landlocked, with its only regional sea access either via Azerbaijan on the Caspian or through […]
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