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Exports

Russia’s Exports to Unfriendly Countries Now Just 18% of the Annual Total

Africa, China, Eurasian Economic Union, Exports, India, Middle East, Russian Market

The share of friendly countries in Russia’s foreign trade has increased from 46% to 82% over the past three years, including more than 85% of export deliveries now going to these countries, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has stated. He was speaking at a government strategic meeting, “Training personnel in foreign economic activity to […]

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Saudi

Russia Estimates Saudi Arabian Agricultural Market As Having Significant Growth Potential

Agriculture, Exports, Imports, Investment, Middle East, Trade

Russia has significant potential to increase agricultural exports to Saudi Arabia, with the total export potential of Russian agricultural products to the country estimated at US$1.4 billion by 2030, according to Ilya Ilyushin, Head of the Agroexport Federal Center. He was speaking at the Russian-Saudi GRAS Agro-Industrial Forum in Moscow on June 30. The GRAS Forum is the first-of-its-kind platform

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Turkiye

Russia, Turkiye To Increase and Diversify Bilateral Agricultural Trade

Agriculture, BRICS, Exports, Imports, Middle East, Trade

Russia and Turkiye plan to strengthen bilateral cooperation in agriculture with the aim of increasing and diversifying Russian-Turkish trade in agricultural products, according to a protocol from the Russian-Turkish intergovernmental commission meeting held last Friday (June 27). The meeting assessed the work of the executive committee on bilateral agriculture. Sunflower oil, wheat bran, sunflower meal,

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Russia Proposes Increasing LNG Sales & Investments With Turkiye

Energy, Exports, Infrastructure, Investment, Middle East

Russia is interested in increasing regular liquefied natural gas supplies to Turkiye and is prepared to participate in joint investment projects to develop the gas market there, according to an intergovernmental commission meeting between the two countries. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has stated that Turkiye had LNG terminals receiving products from all over the world and could

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EAEU Container

Fast Eurasian Agro-Express Green Corridor To Be Extended To Iran, UAE & Mongolia

Agriculture, China, Eurasian Economic Union, Exports, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Middle East

The Eurasian Agro-Express service, which was originally designed to service the Chinese markets and Southeast Asian markets with high-speed deliveries of perishable goods from Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union, could be extended.    Andrei Slepnev, the Minister for trade at the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), stated at the fourth Eurasian Economic Forum in Minsk on

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India

India Bought 80% Of Russia’s Seaborne Urals Crude During January-May 2025

Energy, Exports, India, Logistics & Transport, Middle East, Trade

India has purchased 80% of Russia’s seaborne Urals crude exports this year, with two private refineries increasingly buying more of this variety, according to data analytics provider Kpler.  Indian conglomerates Reliance Industries and Nayara Energy have bought 45% of the Urals crude imported into the country, with India purchasing 231 million barrels of Urals crude this

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Putin Q&A

President Putin Q&A On Multipolarity, Iran, Ukraine, Nuclear War, & Foreign Investment  

Economy, Finance, Foreign Investment, Investment, Middle East, Russian Market, Security

President Putin has engaged in a lengthy, moderated Q&A session, with Nadim Koteich, of Sky News Arabia the moderator at the SPIEF 2025 event. Questions were direct and included involved answers from Putin about the concept of developing a multipolar global society, in-depth discussions about the Israel-Iran conflict, the Ukraine conflict, and issues pertaining to

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Conflict

Iran Conflict: Impact on Russian Air Travelers & Cargo

Logistics & Transport, Middle East, Russian Market

The Iran conflict has escalated and is introducing logistics problems for Russians and other foreigners in the Middle East region, with the impact being felt from Egypt, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Qatar, while also affecting onwards transit to India, China and other Asian destinations. Russian logistics companies are seeing delays in the

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Araghchi-Putin

Russia, Iran Hold Talks, As Tehran To Decide On Closing Hormuz: Implications   

Asia, China, Energy, Exports, India, Logistics & Transport, Middle East, Security

The Russian President is to hold meetings with the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi in Moscow to discuss the latest developments as concerns the Israeli and American attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities on Saturday (June 21). There have been disputed accounts over the actual damage caused, with US President Donald Trump declaring “a complete success”

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