Russia is investing huge amounts of capital to support its pivot to Asia, with massive road, rail, maritime, and air connectivity projects, as well as giant energy infrastructure projects, all underway. Russia aims to boost exports by increasing foreign infrastructure construction support by 13 times. Discover investment opportunities in Russian infrastructure. Analysis of key projects in transport, logistics, and energy. A vital resource for construction, finance, and engineering firms.
Russa’s Roscosmos Space Agency is developing the Amur-SPG launch vehicle with a reusable first stage to be in use by 2030, according to Roscosmos head Yury Borisov. He was speaking at the 49th Korolyov Academic Readings on Cosmonautics on Tuesday (January 28). The Amur-SPG, also known as the Soyuz-7 is a reusable, methane–fueled, orbital launch […]
Meetings held between 15 Russian airlines and an aviation delegation from the Chinese Embassy have discussed the bilateral strengthening of cooperation in Russia-China passenger and cargo air transport. The meeting was chaired by Lev Kosinov, Head of the Department for Transportation Regulation and International Cooperation of the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency. In volumes, during […]
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 […]
US stocks lost over US$1 trillion overnight (January 27) as China’s High Flyer, a Hedge Fund in Hangzhou, launched its Chinese chatbot, named ‘Deepseek’. The app appears to offer the same facilities as the US developed OpenAI and its ChatGPT tool, and the same performance but with fewer resources. Deepseek has already overtaken ChatGPT as […]
The China-SCO Regional Trade and Economic Cooperation Demonstration Zone (China-SCOZ), which is based in China’s Qingdao Port in its Eastern Shandong Province, has been testing shipments to other Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) countries. By the end of 2024, the number of shipments of trucks utilizing the TIR system reached 283, according to Qingdao Customs. The […]
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The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission has approved a concept for improving the interaction of intelligent transport systems of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). The EAEU includes Russia, as well as Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. It has free trade agreements with China, Serbia, Iran, and Vietnam and is negotiating numerous others, including with […]
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it has notified Tokyo of the termination of memoranda between the two countries that set up Japanese centers in Russia. The Japan Centers in Russia were six Japanese government-supported institutions designed to transfer Japanese experience and new technologies to Russian entrepreneurs, as well as to train personnel who […]
Air China, the country’s largest airline, is to begin operating direct flights between Beijing and Vladivostok from March 30, with the route scheduled to operate three times a week using Boeing-737 aircraft. This will eventually increase to three times daily. Vladivostok airport served 2.971 million passengers in 2024, an increase of 17% year-on-year. Vladivostok is […]
Trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Russia rose 10.1% year-on-year to nearly US$4.8 billion in 2024, Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee (SCC) has stated. This places Russia third among Azerbaijan’s foreign trade partners after Italy and Turkey. The volume of Azerbaijan’s exports to Russia decreased 1.5% year-on-year to US$1.178 billion. Exports to Russia accounted for 4.4% of […]
The Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by video conference on Tuesday (January 21). Xi was invited to attend the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow on May 9, while Putin was invited to China’s events to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan in Beijing on September 3. The talks […]
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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