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’s pivot to Asia has taken another unique turn by sending bulk cargo to Malaysia, in southeast Asia, from Moscow vi Vladivostok for the first time. Russia’s FESCO Transport organised the transhipment of technical fat cargo in Flexitanks at the Bely Rast terminal in Russia’s Moscow region. From Bely Rast, the first shipment departed via […]
Russia has been given the contract to print the banknotes for Syria’s redesigned and revalued currency, with Damascus to give the severely devalued Syrian pound a makeover and remove two zeroes from the currency in order to ease transactions and restore confidence. The Syrian pound has lost over 99% of its value since 2011, falling […]
Russia’s FESCO Transport Group has delivered the first refrigerated container with Russian food products from Novorossiysk to the port of Sohar (Oman). The container was loaded with frozen meat semi-finished products weighing 25.5 tonnes, and was delivered by road from the suppliers warehouse in Bryansk to Novorossiysk Port. It was then placed on a FESCO […]
The Indian External Affairs Minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has been holding talks in Moscow, meeting with both Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The talks come just as the United States has threatened to increase tariffs to 50% on Indian exports to the United States in retaliation for India purchasing Russian oil. […]
In a show of defiance against US President Trump’s threats of sanctions, Chinese oil refineries have ramped up imports of Russian crude and have purchased oil initially intended for India. Muyu Xu, a senior crude analyst at Kpler, has said that China’s state-owned and major private refiners have purchased about 13 cargoes of Russian crude […]
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Russia is helping India to build high speed electric trains, according to Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov after talks with his counterpart, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Moscow. Russia is looking at collaborating with India on train manufacturing, potentially for export back to Russia, the CIS countries, and Africa. Russia’s Transmashholdings (TMH) is the Russian interested party, […]
The prospects for supplies of Russian grain and fertilizers to Sierra Leone have been discussed during a meeting between specialists from the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) and Sierra Leonean First Deputy Agriculture and Food Security Minister Theresa Dick. The meeting took place in Freetown and was a continuation of a June […]
Russia exported agricultural products to Turkmenistan worth more than US$110 million in 7M 2025, up 16% compared to the figure for the same period last year, according to the Russian Agroexport federal center. In physical terms, exports exceeded 125,000 tonnes. The trends in exports were not provided. Russia exports fat-and-oil, meat, and dairy products, fish, […]
The alignment of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) is boosting connectivity across Eurasia and creating new opportunities for regional development, according to Kyrgyz economist Iskender Sharsheev. His comments came as the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, an EAEU body, met in Kyrgyzstan’s Issyk-Kul region last Thursday and Friday (August 14/15). […]
Russian exports of sunflower oil to Turkiye increased 17% in volume terms, reaching over 560,000 tonnes worth US$640 million in January-July 2025, according to the Russian Agroexport Federal Centre. Turkiye ranks second among the top importers of Russian sunflower oil. The top three buyers also include Iran in first place and India in third. Russia […]
Russia’s Segezha Group in Siberia has doubled its wood pellet production year-on-year to 61,000 tonnes in January-June 2025, the group has stated. The company has almost tripled its pellet sales to 70,600 tonnes in H1, up from 25,200 tonnes in H1 2024. The main purchaser was South Korea, to which the company supplied more than […]
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