Russia’s exports in 2025 were characterized by shifts in energy trade, increased reliance on Asian buyers and stable, high-demand grain exports, with overall trade figures showing resilience, especially in non-oil/gas sectors, while adapting to new market dynamics. Key trends include exports of crude oil, fertilizers, and grain exports exceeding forecasts. Source products from Russia with confidence. Get insights into Russia’s key export industries, trade finance, and logistics. Essential for importers and businesses building a Russian supply chain.
Russia increased its exports of wheat gluten to India 9-fold year-on-year to over 1,500 tonnes in January-September 2025, while the value of the exports grew almost 7-fold to reach US$1.7 million, Russia’s Agroexport federal center reported. Russia started exporting this product to India in 2020. India was the fourth biggest importer of wheat gluten from […]
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 […]
Gazprom has for the sixth time in two months set a new record for daily gas supplies to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline, the company has stated, saying that “on November 5, Gazprom recorded a new all-time high in daily gas deliveries to China via Power of Siberia. The delivered volume exceeded Gazprom’s […]
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 […]
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed the government to approve a roadmap for the long-term development of rare and rare earth metal mining and production by December 1, the Kremlin stated on Tuesday (November 4). Putin’s statement read, “To the Russian government, taking into account the previously issued instructions, approve an action plan for […]
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India’s crude oil imports from Russia rose in October, despite the US sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil. India’s October imports of Russian oil reached 1.48 million barrels per day, according to data from oil tracking companies Kpler and OilX. Kpler estimated India’s Russian crude imports at about 1.48 million barrels per day (bpd) in October, […]
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 […]
Russian Railways Logistics has sent a full container train along the INSTC route from Chelyabinsk, in the Russian Urals region, to Mundra Port, in Gujarat, India. The train, consisting of 62 twenty-foot containers with oats, followed the eastern rail route of the INSTC North–South to Iran’s Bandar Abbas Port and was then shipped to Mundra. […]
The government’s interdepartmental working group on the creation and development of Russian Special Economic Zones (SEZ) has approved expanding the Kulibin SEZ in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, with a river port and new production facilities being planned, according to the regional government. The Kulibin SEZ currently has a site in Dzerzhinsk, while the additional 117.7-hectare […]
Russia’s R-Pharm Group is to invest in a pharmaceutical production plant in Alatau, Kazakhstan, in partnership with the local company Khan Tengri Biopharma, according to Nikolai Zemskov, R-Pharm’s General Director of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) markets. He said that “a joint venture company with an investment of US$200 million will build an innovative full-cycle […]
Russia and Mongolia are planning to update the plans to develop railway and roadway transport corridors by the end of the year, Russia’s Deputy Transport Minister, Alexei Shilo, has said. Shilo was meeting with Batmunkh Nasantogtokh, the State Secretary of the Mongolian Ministry of Roads and Transport. They formalized the agreements at this week’s meeting […]
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