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Russia – Abkhazia 2024 Bilateral & Geopolitical Relations: Update

Commonwealth of Independent States, Finance, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has held bilateral meetings with Sergey Shamba, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia. Abkhazia is a semi-recognised independent country that was formed in 1993. It had previously been a province of neighbouring Georgia, however following mass civil unrest and Georgian military action against ethnic Abkhazians, Russian troops were […]

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Russia – South Ossetia 2024 Bilateral & Geopolitical Relations: Update

Commonwealth of Independent States, Finance, Logistics & Transport, Security, Trade

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has held bilateral meetings with Akhsar Dzhioev, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of South Ossetia. South Ossetia is a semi-recognised independent country that was formed in 1990, when the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast, established by Soviet authorities in Moscow in 1922, declared independence from the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic

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Is European Myopia Towards Russia Damaging Its Ability To Recover Its Economies?

BRICS, Economy, Security, Trade

Or: Is This Article Russian Propaganda or an Intellectual Debate? You Decide. The extraordinary lengths to which Europe has gone to support Ukraine – and in turn, seek to turn public support for the countries leadership and therefore pursue a highly aggressive anti-Russian stance are unprecedented over the past century. Never to such an extent

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Russia – Tajikistan 2024 Bilateral Relations: Update

Commonwealth of Independent States, Energy, Exports, Imports, Trade

Tajikistan’s President, Emomali Rahmon has met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, as part of the two countries Intergovernmental Economic Cooperation Commission in Dushanbe. The Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that “The meeting addressed strengthening multi-faceted cooperation between Tajikistan and Russia. Attention was paid to expanding ties between the two countries in trade,

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China Needs A Strong Russia, While Russia Needs A Stable China – Russian Foreign Minister

BRICS, China, Energy, Trade

The Russia-China relationship has been the focus of ongoing conjecture in the West, much of it referring to how Beijing will eventually outmanoeuvre Moscow and subsume Russia either via land grabs or financial coercion. Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, has weighed in on the debate by stating, somewhat enigmatically, that “Our friendly and good-neighbourly relations

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Russia – Pakistan Agriculture Barter Trade Kicks Off With Chickpeas for Oranges

Exports, Imports, Trade

The proposed barter trade format to help cash poor Pakistani farmers and financially sanctioned Russians has begun, and it’s not small potatoes. Russia’s Astarta Agrotrading, one of the countries largest agricultural commodity traders, is not only bartering 20,000 tonnes of chickpeas, it’s building an entire logistics complex to facilitate this type of trade. Stanislav Neveinitsyn,

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Russia – Afghanistan 2024 Bilateral Trade: Update

Energy, Exports, Trade

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov and the acting Afghan Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi have discussed trade and financial settlement processes in Russia-Afghani trade as well as plans to intensify trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, including in the energy sector, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. Lavrov and Muttaqi met on the

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Russia Proposes “BRICS Starlink” To Friendly Countries

BRICS, Exports, Infrastructure

Russia has stated that countries that maintain friendly relations with Moscow are interested in using Russia’s low-orbit satellite constellation to have Internet access as an alternative to Elon Musk’s Starlink network, according to Russia’s Digital Development Minister, Maksut Shadayev. Russia’s OJSC Bureau 1440 is currently building a low-orbit satellite constellation, involving 292 spacecraft to provide

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Europe’s Supply Chain Crisis Deepens As Russia & Asia Steam Ahead

BRICS, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

It’s interesting – even laughable – to note how the Western media describe problems in the West as ‘Global’ issues, whereas in fact they are often referring to matters related solely to the United States and Europe. It begs the question of how realistic their knowledge of how the global trade and geopolitical system now

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UAE Expected To Conclude Eurasian Economic Union Free Trade Agreement At BRICS Summit

BRICS, Eurasian Economic Union, Trade

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) may conclude negotiations on setting a free trade zone by the BRICS summit set for October 22-24 in Kazan, according to Andrei Slepnyov, the Eurasian Economic Commission Trade Minister. He has stated that “With the UAE, we are at the finalization

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