Russia’s total trade reached about US$745 billion during 2025, also showcasing a significant, albeit shifting, trade surplus of about US$120 billion. In this section we cover all news concerning Russian trade developments, with Russian exporters increasingly reaching out into new markets on a global basis as it pivots away from the West. This is the definitive source on Russian trade. Get the latest data, analysis, and news on Russia’s import/export activities, trade agreements, and increasing commercial partnerships with the Global South.
Trade between Russia and the African continent increased to a record of US$24.5 billion, marking a new peak in economic relations between the two regions, as Russia has been making increasing inroads into Africa and European powers slowly withdraw. Despite economic obstacles and western sanctions, Russia and Africa are finding new ways to support their […]
The ‘Russia-Africa: Nuclear Education – Potential for Successful Regional Development’ forum has been taking place at the Peoples’ Friendship University (RUDN) in Moscow, with Frednard Gideon, Vice Chancellor of the University of Namibia (UNAM) stating that “Namibia is the world’s fourth-largest producer of uranium. We started mining it in 1976. Uranium is produced, but it […]
African Tourists visiting Russia have become a growth trend, and have risen by nearly 60% over the past two years, according to Yulia Maksutova, the deputy director general of the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) in Moscow. Maksutova highlighted a rising demand for travel, powered by expanding business and educational exchanges. She said that flight […]
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, is set to meet with the Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing, who is on an official visit to Russia, on Tuesday (March 4). Amid the re-orientation of trade from the West to Asian markets, Russia has been expanding its trade and, to some degree, investment ties with South Asian […]
AvtoVAZ representatives will visit Ecuador in March this year and discuss the resumption of sales of Russian cars to the country, according to the Ecuadorian Ambassador Juan Fernando Holguin Flores. Despite sanctions, and the subsequent difficulties with payments and logistics, Russia remains an important trading partner of Ecuador, with Russia one of the main buyers […]
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The Bugristoe checkpoint on the border of Russia and Kazakhstan has begun a significant upgrading which will double the capacity of the border crossing, when completed at the end of 2026, according to the Russian Federal State Budgetary Institution Rosgranstroy. The works include the construction of 29 buildings and structures, the organisation of 32 lanes […]
The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, together with the Russian Export Centre (REC), is launching a program of state support for exports to Latin America and Africa. According to the program, Russian logistics companies engaged in maritime transportation will be able to receive subsidies from the federal budget and set preferential tariffs for their […]
Dagestan’s Makhachkala Commercial Sea Port (MCSP) is negotiating the export of fertilizers and timber products to Asia and the Middle East, according to Sergei Melikov, the Head of the Dagestan Republic. He was speaking during a conference on the development of transport in Dagestan. The Republic is part of the Russian Federation and has a […]
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said that the BRICS nations remain committed to developing new “transparent and secure” payment platforms to boost their economic integration and reduce “vulnerabilities” in the global market. He was speaking at a meeting of the BRICS Ambassadors (also known as “Sherpas”) on Thursday, (February 27) as the […]
Russia, Iran and Iraq will form a working group for the joint development of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev stated after a meeting of the Russia-Iraq Intergovernmental Commission for Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation. Tsivilev, the Commission Co-Chair, said that “There was a proposal from the Iraqi prime […]
Russia’s nuclear energy state corporation, Rosatom, has won a Brazilian tender to provide conversion and enrichment services for domestically produced uranium, according to the companies press service, which stated the contract signed by Rosatom with the Brazilian state company Industrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB) is “worth around US$40 million.” It is expected that Brazilian uranium […]
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