Russia’s trade and investment into the Middle East is rapidly developing, with relations both through the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab League all helping boost bilateral trade by 25% during 2025. Partially driven by the developments along the INSTC, and new regional free trade agreements, we provide analysis of the growing Russia-Middle East economic partnership. Discover trade statistics, investment flows from the GCC, and business opportunities for companies in both regions.
Agricultural trade between Russia and Iran grew 20% in the first nine months of this year, according to Russia’s Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut and Iran’s Minister of Agriculture Jihad Gholamreza Nouri Ghezeljeh. Russia also resumed exports of mineral fertilizers to Iran. Lut and Ghezeljeh also discussed prospects for cooperation in veterinary and phytosanitary surveillance. They […]
Russian and Iranian maritime shipping companies are looking in detail at creating a new maritime container line, according to Andrei Tarasenko, the head of the Russian Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot). He was speaking at the 2025 Transport of Russia forum. Tarasenko said that Russia and Iran had reached specific agreements in […]
The head of Russia’s Federal Tax Service (FTS), Daniil Yegorov, has stated that Russia has restructured its Double Tax Treaty (DTA) arrangements with other countries, with these now being aligned with countries that provide favorable investment environments for Russian investors. DTAs are bilateral agreements aimed at preventing situations where the same income of a legal […]
The leaders of the world’s major economies are gathering in South Africa for the G20 Summit between November 22–23, and they will find themselves at a crossroads confronting a global landscape more fractured, polarized, and competitive than at any time since the end of the Cold War. What was once conceived as a practical forum […]
Roza LLC, a subsidiary of Iran’s Golrang Industrial Group, is investing in a household chemicals plant in the Lotos Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Astrakhan. The SEZ stated in a press release that “As of November 1, 2025, the overall amount of investment in the project totals ₽1.25 billion, with production planned for 2027. The […]
Subscribe to receive exclusive insights and analysis on Middle East.
Russia’s portfolio of arms export contracts with countries in the Middle East and North Africa amounts to tens of billions of dollars, according to Dmitry Shugaev, the head of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation. Speaking at the Dubai Airshow, 2025, He said that “The Middle East, North Africa, and the Near East have traditionally […]
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Marat Khusnullin, has been attending the Russia-Oman business forum held in Muscat and has provided updates on Oman becoming an additional destination on the southern part of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC). He stated that “We have a very interesting project with Oman in port infrastructure development. The connection between […]
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 […]
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 […]
The “Middle Volga-Caspian International Logistics Forum” has been held in Ulyanovsk, attended by delegations from Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Iraq, and Iran, an important event to discuss operations along the Middle and Southern Corridor aspect of the International North-South Transport Corridor. There are now plans to create a single logistics operator to develop the Middle Volga–Caspian–Persian […]
The agreement between Russia and Jordan mutually waiving visa requirements for citizens of the two countries is to come into effect from December 13, the Russian Foreign Ministry has stated. Russian citizens will be able to travel to and stay in Jordan without having to apply for visas for 30 days, provided that they do […]
Русский
