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Featured November 16, 2025

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Meetings In Moscow: Unlocking Eurasian Trade Potential

As the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) convenes its Council of Heads of Government summit in Moscow on November 17–18, 2025, member states are poised to deliver strategic momentum on economic integration, especially in China–Russia trade and multilateral trade cooperation. Under Russia’s rotating presidency, this high-level gathering follows the landmark Tianjin Summit three months ago, and […]

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Featured November 10, 2025

Tatarstan To Develop New Kama River Port To Integrate With INSTC

The Nizhnekamsk district in the Russian Republic of Tatarstan is to develop and launch quay infrastructure of a new Kama River port next year, which will become part of a logistics complex linking to the INSTC corridor. This will open up the region to be part of the North-South Corridor and improve trade links with […]

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November 8, 2025

Russia’s Wheat Gluten Exports To India Up Nine-Fold During 2025 Year-to-Date

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 […]

November 6, 2025

India’s Gem Processing Industry Destabilized Due To US-Introduced Chaos Over Russian Raw Diamonds

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 […]

November 4, 2025

India’s Oil Imports From Russia Increased During October Despite US Sanctions

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, […]

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November 3, 2025

Is Europe Being Cast Adrift?

Over the past few weeks, grumbles of discontent have begun emerging from the European population, about what appears to economic issues directly created by sanctions imposed upon Russia. These range from Finnish resorts bemoaning the lack of Russian tourists, Italian resorts closing, and Lithuanian cigarette smugglers causing chaos over ballooning in cheap products from Belarus. […]

November 3, 2025

Russia Sends Direct Freight Train To India

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. […]

November 2, 2025

Nizhny Novgorod Targets Port & SEZ Developments To Integrate Into The North-South Transport Corridor

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 […]

November 2, 2025

Russia Gaining Indian Carbon Credits From Investments In Uzbekistan Solar Power

Russia’s Tatneft has registered a project to generate solar power in Uzbekistan on India’s Universal Carbon Registry platform, the company has stated, saying, “We have installed solar power plants with an overall capacity of 0.33 MW on the roofs of a tire manufacturing plant in Uzbekistan. Clean solar energy is now used for production needs, […]

October 30, 2025

India To Manufacture Russia’s SJ-100 Superjet Under Licence To Fill Domestic Passenger Demand

India and Russia have committed to a new aircraft production partnership, with India’s state-backed Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) signing a memorandum of understanding with Russia’s PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) to produce civil commuter SJ-100 aircraft, the companies have announced. The Superjet SJ-100 is a twin-engine, narrow-body Russian regional passenger aircraft already in commercial service, […]

October 30, 2025

India To Continue To Buy Russian Oil

Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), a state-owned oil and gas company, has stated it will continue to buy Russian crude as long as it does not violate US sanctions, the companies Finance Director, Anuj Jain, has stated. He added that the company maintains a database of sanctioned entities and will continue to source oil from non-sanctioned […]