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Belgium’s Anheuser-Busch InBev and Turkiye’s Anadolu Efes Lose Total Equity On Russian InBev Beer Takeover

Agriculture, Finance, Foreign Investment, Russian Market

Decision is almost certainly due to Euroclear diverting profits from frozen Russian capital to Ukraine Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev and Turkey’s Anadolu Efes have lost, in the case of the latter, perhaps temporarily, in their attempts to strike a deal for the assets of Russian joint venture Anheuser-Busch Inbev Efes. On Monday, January 1, Russian […]

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Putin Calls For Russia-China Artificial Intelligence Alliance

China, Infrastructure, Security, Trade

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has instructed the government and Sberbank, the country’s largest bank and a tech innovator, to create an alliance with China to develop artificial intelligence. Putin’s directive was issued after the Artificial Intelligence Journey Conference held in Moscow last month. Speaking at the conference, the President of the Russian Federation said: “Artificial

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New 2025 Russia’s Pivot To Asia Guide To The Middle East

Miscellaneous

Russia’s Pivot to Asia have just published our ‘2025 Guide to the Middle East’ which discusses Russia’s trade, investment, and geopolitical dynamics with the entire Middle Eastern region. It includes country-specific data on Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkiye, the UAE, and Yemen. It is essential reading

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Russia’s 2024 Presidency Of The BRICS And Looking Ahead To 2025: Ryabkov Interview

BRICS, China, Infrastructure, Security, Trade

Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the primary “BRICS Sherpa” has been interviewed by Tass concerning the development of the BRICS group during 2024. This is especially pertinent as Russia held the Presidency of BRICS during the year, hosting the annual BRICS summit in Kazan. The interview covered Russia’s Presidency of BRICS,

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Eurasian Economic Union Agrees Unified Customs Transit System With Third Countries

China, Eurasian Economic Union, Regulatory, Trade

The Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, which oversees legislation on behalf of the Eurasian Economic Union, (EAEU) has signed an agreement on a Unified Customs Transit System between the EAEU and third countries. The agreement is important as it reduces transport costs from the EAEU to its major trading partners. The agreement defines the legal framework

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Russia’s Development Readiness For National Autonomous Transport Networks

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

Russia ranks third in its readiness to implement Autonomous Transport (AT) systems among the BRICS, CIS and partner countries, second only to China and the United Arab Emirates and ahead of countries such as Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Turkiye, according to the latest Kept (ex-KPMG) ratings. For the assessment, Kept’s analysts compared countries with each

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Ukraine Turns Off Russian Gas Supplies To The EU On January 1. This Is What That Means.

Energy, Exports, Security, Trade

Ukraine has refused to continue acting as a European gas supply chain transit agent from Russia and is to terminate gas supplies to the EU from Russia from January 1st. Kiev’s contract with Gazprom finishes on December 31. Affected by this decision are the EU member states Austria, Hungary, and Slovakia which have long relied

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New Syrian Regime Wants ‘Good Relations’ With Russia, No Planned Withdrawal

Middle East, Security, Trade

The new Syrian authorities, led by the country’s de facto leader Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, of the Islamists Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS) would like to remain on good terms with Russia, al-Sharaa has said, stating in an interview with local broadcaster Al Arabiya on Sunday (December 29) that his government would not necessarily be seeking the withdrawal

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Russia’s 2024 Rice Harvest Up 17% To Reach A Record High

Agriculture, Asia, Exports, Russian Market, Trade

The Russian Ministry of Agriculture has stated that Russia has produced a record rice harvest this year, amounting to more than 1.2 million tons. This is 17% higher than for 2023. According to the Ministry, Russia now has 207,000 hectares of rice under production. Almost two-thirds of that is from Krasnodar, where the harvest amounted

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New Russia’s Pivot To Asia Publication: “2025 Guide To The Caspian Sea”

Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Economic Union, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

Russia’s Pivot To Asia have published a short 2025 Guide to the Caspian Sea, in order to provide an update and overview on the multilateral operations of the North-South Transport Corridor, which links Russia to the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. The Caspian Sea is also a European Gateway to Central Asia. We examine the

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