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Digital Assets

Russia’s Digital Financial Assets Grew Fourfold In 2024  

Economy, Finance, Infrastructure, Russian Market, Trade

Russia’s digital financial assets market grew more than 4 times in 2024, according to the Russian ACRA credit rating agency. Although still developing and partially hampered by sanctions, the overall trend is positive, with holdings up to ₽150 billion by the end of last year. According to ACRA’s estimates, digital financial instruments in Russia have […]

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SBP

Russia’s Fast Payment System Via Phone Set To Expand Into The Global South 

Asia, Exports, Finance, Imports, Regulatory, Trade

Russia’ Fast Payment System (SBP), in which banks will accept money transfers by phone number is rapidly developing and has now expanded to include nine countries: Abkhazia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The number of foreign banks accepting money through the SBP by phone number is also growing, with 50 now

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Russia, UAE Finalise Double Tax Agreement To Commence 1st January 2026

Finance, Middle East, Regulatory, Trade

Russia and the United Arab Emirates have concluded the final round of negotiations on and initialled the draft of a new Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) on income and capital and to help prevent tax evasion. DTA provisions typically protect tax payers from being taxed twice for the same income, such as a Russian national working

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Mongolia

Mongolia Runs Into Budgetary Problems With Russian Road & Rail Connectivity

Asia, Eurasian Economic Union, Finance, Infrastructure, Trade

Mongolia’s 2025 budget has run out of money to repair access roads to its largest border crossing with Russia. Eight road projects, including the repair of the highway from the largest automobile border crossing at Altanbulag on the border with Russia, were excluded from Mongolia’s budget for 2025. Altanbulag is the largest automobile checkpoint on

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Rubles Rials

Russia’s VTB Bank To Open Full Banking Services In Iran

BRICS, Economy, Eurasian Economic Union, Finance, Middle East, Trade

Russia’s VTB bank plans to open a full-fledged subsidiary bank in Iran by the end of 2025, the bank’s President and Board Chairman Andrei Kostin has stated. VTB opened a representative office in Iran in 2023. Kostin said that “We plan to open a full-service bank by the end of this year. VTB will be

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Lavrov

Russian Foreign Minister Q&A On Russia’s Foreign Policy 2025: Analysis

Asia, BRICS, China, Commonwealth of Independent States, Economy, Eurasian Economic Union, Finance, India, Infrastructure, Trade

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, gave an extensive media interview and Q&A session on Tuesday (January 14), at which many questions were asked. The full transcript, including comments about the United States, Ukraine, sanctions and so on, can be read here. In this article, we highlight the comments he made pertinent to our specific

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Dedollarisation

Over Half Of All Countries Worldwide Are De-Dollarizing 

BRICS, China, Economy, Finance, India, Regulatory, Trade

More than half of the countries across the world have declared a boycott of the US dollar, an analysis conducted by Russia’s Sputnik media has showed. In 2024, 14 more nations embarked on de-dollarisation, according to Sputnik’s analysis. 46 countries have switched to making transactions in national currencies, and 53 countries now openly oppose the

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ASEAN COver

Russia’s Pivot To Asia 2025 Guide To ASEAN

Asia, Economy, Exports, Finance, Imports, Logistics & Transport, Russia's Belt & Road, Trade

Russia’s Pivot To Asia have just published their 2025 Guide to ASEAN, which details Russia’s trade, investment and geopolitical involvement with the ASEAN group. ASEAN includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. We detail Russian trade trends looking back at 2024 and ahead into 2025, and also include chapters

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Tax

Russia 2025 Individual and Corporate Income Tax Rates

Finance, Regulatory, Russian Market, Trade

2024 saw the biggest tax base reform in Russia for the last twenty years, with numerous  changes. The tax innovations will affect all Russian citizens, foreigners working in the country, individual entrepreneurs, as well as small and large businesses. The move to “a fairer distribution of the tax burden” for those with higher personal and

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