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Lavrov Speech: Russia’s Strategic Economic Diplomacy in 2026

On Tuesday, January 20, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov convened his traditional annual press conference in Moscow to review the performance of Russian diplomacy in 2025 and set out the foreign policy and economic agenda for 2026. At this event—attended by hundreds of journalists—Lavrov emphasized that the diplomatic focus is no longer solely about geopolitical […]

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January 22, 2026

St. Petersburg’s SPIMEX Aims For Competition With The London Metals Exchange

The St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX) is preparing for trading in platinum bullion, SPIMEX president Igor Artemyev has stated, and is collaborating with Norilsk Nickel on the matter. The Russian Ministry of Finance also has a specific interest in organizing the trading, though legislation will be required to permit such trade. Artemyev said, “We […]

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January 22, 2026

Russia Begins Greenhouse Substrate Exports To Saudi Arabia

Russia’s Technonicol has begun exporting greenhouse substrates produced at the corporation’s plant in Krasny Sulin in the Rostov region to Saudi Arabia. The first batch of products included mineral wool cubes intended for germinating tomato seedlings in greenhouses. Technonicol’s products were delivered by sea from Novorossiysk to Jeddah via the Bosporus and the Suez Canal. […]

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January 22, 2026

Russia Increases 2025 Potash Fertilizer Exports To China By 6% 

Russia boosted exports of mineral fertilizer to China 6% year-on-year to nearly 5 million tonnes, totaling US$1.6 billion, up 12% year-on-year, in 2025, according to data from China’s General Administration of Customs. This was mainly China increasing its imports of potash fertilizer, the primary fertilizer imported from Russia, 9% year-on-year to 4.6 million tonnes, worth […]

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January 22, 2026

Putin Ready To Accept Membership Of Trump’s “Board Of Peace” Initiative

Moscow is ready to contribute to US President Donald Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ initiative, President Vladimir Putin told the Russian Security Council on Wednesday (January 21). He suggested donating the required US$1 billion membership fee to the body out of the Russian assets frozen in the US to support the recovery of the Palestinian enclave. […]

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January 21, 2026

The Arctic: Structural Power, Strategic Geography, and the Real Balance of Military Forces in the High North

For much of the post-Cold War period, the Arctic existed outside the main currents of global geopolitics. Covered by ice, distant from population centers, and governed by cooperative mechanisms, the High North was widely perceived as a region immune to confrontation. This assumption has gradually dissolved. Climate transformation, technological adaptation, and global power redistribution have […]

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January 21, 2026

Moldova Launches Procedures To Leave The Commonwealth Of Independent States

Moldova has launched the procedure for officially withdrawing from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Foreign Minister Mihai Popsoi has said. The CIS was formed in 1991 after the collapse of the USSR to promote cooperation regarding economic, political, and security issues among the former Soviet republics. It currently includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, […]

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