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Russia Increases 2025 Potash Fertilizer Exports To China By 6% 

Agriculture, China, Exports, Russian Market

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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Palestine

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

Finance, Middle East, Russian Market

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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Arctic Main

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

Europe, Infrastructure, Investment, Logistics & Transport, Russian Market, Security, Trade

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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Moldova

Moldova Launches Procedures To Leave The Commonwealth Of Independent States

Commonwealth of Independent States, Economy, Europe, Russian Market, Trade

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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Dairy

Russian Global Dairy Exports Up 13%

Africa, Agriculture, Asia, Central Asia, China, Eurasian Economic Union, Exports, Russian Market, Trade

Russia exported dairy products worth more than US$500 million in 2025, with supplies going to almost 100 countries worldwide, the head of the Agroexport federal center Ilya Ilyushin, said at the third forum of dairy industry leaders in Moscow on Tuesday (January 20). The final sales volumes are likely to be higher, as the December

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kWh

Russian 2025 Electricity Exports To China Reached 306.5 Million kWh

China, Energy, Exports, Russian Market

Although China has currently suspended Russian electricity imports, it purchased 306.5 million kWh in 2025, according to data from the Chinese customs administration. In monetary terms, this amounted to US$13.97 million. The sole electricity export/import operator in Russia, Inter RAO, has not yet published its data for 2025. The company reported supplying 900 million kWh

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Bangladesh

Russia’s Uralchem Donates 30,000 Tons of Potash To Bangladesh

Agriculture, Asia, BRICS, Russian Market

Russian fertilizer giant Uralchem has completed the delivery of 30,000 metric tons of potash to Bangladesh as a humanitarian gesture, the company announced on Monday (January 19). The donation was conducted under the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). This is the company’s seventh donation in a series of humanitarian deliveries to developing countries since

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Mauritius

First Russian Orthodox Church Opens In Mauritius

Africa, Culture, Russian Market

The first Russian Orthodox church in Mauritius was consecrated on Sunday, (January 18) on Epiphany Eve, the Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa has announced. The exarchate, part of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, stated that Metropolitan Konstantin of Cairo and North Africa, who is temporarily overseeing the South African Diocese, performed the rite

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Davos

Russia’s Dmitriev To Attend Davos As Trump Promises Chaos

Energy, Europe, Miscellaneous, Russian Market

Russia’s Kirill Dmitriev is to attend the World Economic Forum’s annual Davos meeting of global leaders, the first time a Russian has attended since the WEF suspended participation in 2022. Dimitriev is the CEO of Russia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, RDIF and has been involved in negotiations over settling the Ukraine conflict. He is due to

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