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India’s imports of Russian crude oil are expected to reach around 1.8 million barrels per day in May, the highest level in 10 months, according to ship-tracking data from Kpler. The surge is attributed to refiners purchasing more light grades, such as Russia’s ESPO Blend from the Eastern Siberian-Pacific Ocean pipeline. Traders predict that the […]
The Russian Foreign Ministry, and Russian Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut has confirmed that Russia will supply 709.5 tons of food aid to Burkina Faso this month as part of its growing humanitarian support to African nations. In addition, Russia is finalizing formal procedures to deliver up to 20,000 tons of wheat to Niger, Lut has […]
The Russian President, Vladimir Putin has called for the creation of a buffer zone with Ukraine and has enlisted numerous Russian Ministries and regions of Russia to assist construct in ‘in the shortest possible time’. Putin stated that the Russian Ministries of defence, interior, emergency situations, construction, health, transport, energy, communications, education and other authorities […]
As Russia has become estranged from Europe, and attitudes in both directions cool off, a pertinent social question to ask is what is a Russian national – and is that make-up changing? Because if so, this will have long term impacts on Russian consumer behaviour and societal trends – important issues for understanding what the […]
Russia’s Ministry of Natural Resources plans to propose introducing a 1.5 multiplier for calculating profit tax for geological exploration in onshore Arctic and Far East territories, according to Alexander Kozlov, the natural resources minister. He was speaking at a State Duma session dedicated to the socioeconomic and infrastructure development of the Arctic. The use of […]
Russia’s Rosneft has acquired Vostok Engineering LLC, which holds the license for the Tomtor rare and rare-earth metals (REM) deposits in Yakutia. Tomtor is one of the world’s three biggest REM deposits and is one of the richest in the world in terms of REM content in ore, as well as the world’s largest niobium […]
A joint project of Russia’s Tatneft and Kazakhstan’s Samruk-Kazyna wealth fund to build a butadiene plant is to begin its investment phase in July 2025, with China Tianchen Engineering Corporation as its contractor, the Kazakhstan government’s press service has said. Butadiene is a colorless gas and a crucial industrial chemical primarily used to produce synthetic […]
Russia hopes to establish a sanctions-proof channel for the supply of petroleum products by building a petroleum product pipeline in the Congo and also to gain the status of a strategic partner in ensuring the energy security of the entire region, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Dmitry Islamov has stated to the State Duma. Islamov was […]
Illustrating that Russian producers and exporters are gaining more ground in their new-found attitude to seeking out new exports markets, Russia exported over 180 tonnes of canned sardines, sprats and Baltic herring worth nearly US$500,000 to Laos this year to date, according to the Agroexport Federal Centre. This marks Russia’s first ever shipment of canned […]
China has suggested that Russia boost oil supplies via Kazakhstan by 2.5 million tonnes per year, and Russia is ready to do this, according to Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. He was speaking about the protocol on amendments to the intergovernmental agreement approved by the Russian government. Novak clarified that “This is a proposal […]
The value of transactions on the Belarusian Universal Commodity Exchange (BUCE) conducted by Belarusian and Russian producers increased 3.4-fold in 2024, while it grew 20% year-on-year in January-April 2025, according to Herman Puzyrny, the deputy head of BUCE’s Foreign Economic Activity Department. Puzyrny said that “Russia traditionally ranks first in trade volume among all countries […]
Russia’s RZD Logistics, in cooperation with Russian Railways (RZD) and partner company Transit, has dispatched the first 100-car container train from the inland Yuzhny Port, an industrial trade zone serviced by the Lyublino-Sortirovochnoye station near Moscow. The train is en route to Khabarovsk-2 station in the Russian Far East and has a scheduled transit time […]
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