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.
A working meeting between Russian and Indian representatives of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, (AARI) together with Indian Foreign Minister Aquino Vimal, has taken place in St. Petersburg, during which both parties discussed the development of Russian-Indian scientific cooperation in the Arctic and polar regions. The AARI stated that “the meeting is a continuation […]
Production of open- and closed-field vegetables in Russia’s organized agricultural sector reached 7.6 million tonnes in 2025, the Russian Agriculture Ministry has said, stating that “The volumes of vegetable production largely meet the country’s domestic needs. As a result, Russia is very close to approaching the national food security doctrine target for self-sufficiency in vegetable […]
Russia’s exports of agricultural products to Middle East countries reached US$4.3 billion in value during 2025, according to Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut. She was speaking at the opening of the Russian exposition at the Gulfood 2026 international food exhibition currently taking place in Dubai. Lut stated that “Our relations with Middle East countries are steadily […]
Russia is expanding the range of vegetable oil exports is ready to provide to export markets with a new variety – flaxseed oil, according Ilya Ilyushin, the head of Russia’s Agroexport Federal Center. He was speaking at an oil and fat conference taking place as part of the Global Grain and Pulses Forum 2026 in […]
Russia exported soybean oil to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries worth nearly US$290 million in 2025, up 11% from 2024, according to the Agroexport federal center. The MENA region accounted for 43% of the export revenue from supplies of Russian soybean oil abroad. The top five buyers included Algeria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, […]
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The goals of Russia’s trade and economic partnerships differ depending on the country; for example, with China it is increasing non-resource, non-energy exports, and with India it is balancing trade, according to government materials for a strategic session on the development of foreign economic activity. Documents state that “the central element of Russia’s foreign economic […]
Trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Russia amounted to US$4.92 billion in 2025, up 2.5% compared to the previous year, the Azerbaijani State Customs Committee (SCC) has stated. Trade operations with Russia accounted for 9.96% of the country’s total foreign trade turnover, the SCC said. Russia is Azerbaijan’s third largest foreign trade partner after Italy and […]
Russia’s oil and petroleum product export revenue reached US$11.35 billion in December, up US$250 million from November but down US$3.21 billion from a year earlier, the International Energy Agency said in its monthly report. Oil exports increased by 620,000 barrels per day last month to 7.55 million bpd. Russian oil exports in December increased by […]
Russia boosted crustacean exports by 10% year-on-year to 91,000 tonnes in physical terms, and increased revenues by 13% to over US$2 billion in 2025, according to the Russian Agriculture Ministry’s Agroexport center. The top 5 importers included China at US$1.2 billion, South Korea at around US$750 million, Japan at over US$33 million, Vietnam at over […]
Russia’s Technonicol has begun exporting greenhouse substrates produced at the corporation’s plant in Krasny Sulin in the Rostov region to Saudi Arabia. The first batch of products included mineral wool cubes intended for germinating tomato seedlings in greenhouses. Technonicol’s products were delivered by sea from Novorossiysk to Jeddah via the Bosporus and the Suez Canal. […]
Russia boosted exports of mineral fertilizer to China 6% year-on-year to nearly 5 million tonnes, totaling US$1.6 billion, up 12% year-on-year, in 2025, according to data from China’s General Administration of Customs. This was mainly China increasing its imports of potash fertilizer, the primary fertilizer imported from Russia, 9% year-on-year to 4.6 million tonnes, worth […]
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