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Russia Announces Closed Energy Cycle Nuclear Power Breakthrough

Energy, Exports, Infrastructure, Russia

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has announced a global game-changing nuclear power breakthrough, a closed fuel cycle power system to tackle global uranium shortages. This system allows for virtually no nuclear waste. A conventional Nuclear Power Plant uses 0.7% of uranium, leaving 99.3% waste. Russia’s new closed cycle reactor reuses the waste, making uranium fuel […]

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Russia, Cambodia Bilateral Relations: September 2025 Update 

Asia, Energy, Exports, Imports, Infrastructure, Investment, Trade

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, met with Prak Sokhonn, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cambodia on the sidelines of the 80thsession of the UN General Assembly in New York. The parties discussed pressing international and regional issues and the current state and prospects for Russia-Cambodia relations. Cambodia has a

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Russian President Putin Meets With Acting President Of Myanmar: Bilateral Update

Infrastructure, Russian Market, Trade

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has met with Min Aung Hlaing, the Acting President of Myanmar. Taking part in the conversation on the Russian side were Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office – Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, Presidential Aide Yury

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Russian President Putin Meets With Ethiopian Prime Minister: Nuclear Deal & Bilateral Update

Africa, BRICS, Energy, Infrastructure, Trade

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has met with Abiy Ahmed, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, in Moscow.   At the beginning of the meeting, in the presence of the heads of state, Director General of Rosatom Alexei Likhachev and Foreign Minister of Ethiopia Gedion Timotheos exchanged the signed Action Plan between the State Atomic Energy

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Rosatom Poised For Two Nuclear Power Plant Deals With Niger

Africa, Energy, Exports, Infrastructure

Niger’s Minister of Energy and Mines, Ousmane Abarchi, has announced plans to build two Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) in partnership with Russian state energy corporation Rosatom, a project he said is “very important for the entire African continent.” Abarchi, who was speaking at the Global Atomic Forum in Moscow on Thursday (September 25), said the

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Russia, Syria, Bilateral Relations: September 2025 Update 

Energy, Infrastructure, Middle East, Security, Trade

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has met with Asaad al-Shaibani, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Syrian Arab Republic in New York, on the sidelines of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly. The discussion focused on practical steps to develop many-faceted bilateral cooperation, building on the outcomes of recent

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Russia, Iraq Bilateral Relations: September 2025 Update

Energy, Exports, Imports, Infrastructure, Investment, Middle East, Trade

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has met with Fuad Hussein, the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Iraq on the sidelines of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. They discussed pressing matters of Russian-Iraqi relations, and reiterated their mutual commitment to deepening the political dialogue and expanding mutually beneficial

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Russia, Pacific Small Island Developing States Multilateral Relations: 2025 Update

Agriculture, ASEAN, Asia, Infrastructure, Security, Trade

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has met with the multilateral group ‘Pacific Small Island Developing States’ (PSIDS), a dialogue mechanism that Lavrov has stated “has unequivocally established itself as a highly sought-after and effective platform for exchanging views, both on areas of bilateral collaboration and on pressing issues of regional and global agendas.” The

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Russia, Sahel States Diplomatic Relations: September 2025 Updates

Africa, Energy, Exports, Imports, Infrastructure, Investment, Security, Trade

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has met with the Foreign Ministers of the Confederation of Sahel States (AES), namely Abdoulaye Diop (Mali), Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré (Burkina Faso), and Yaou Sangaré Bakary (Niger).  The AES (Alliance des États du Sahel) is a confederation formed between Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso in the Sahel region of

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New Financial Architecture Is Helping Russian Banks Expand Services Overseas Despite EU’s 19th Sanctions Package

Economy, Finance, Infrastructure, Russia, Trade

Russia’s largest banks are expanding their services to facilitate direct payments abroad in foreign currencies, with new technologies helping to bypass Western sanctions. This means that Russian businesses will once again be able to freely send dollars, euros, or yuan to any country. Sovcombank has already launched this mechanism, while Sberbank and other Russian banks

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