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The redistribution of foreign participation in the Russian market over the past two years has resulted in Chinese investors becoming the largest source of foreign investment into the country. In the first nine months of 2024, the number of Russian registered companies with Chinese equity increased by 32% over the same period in 2023, according […]
Russia’s Minister of Transport, Roman Starovoit, and the Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk have met with the Pakistani Minister of Privatisation, Communications and Affairs of the Investment Council, Abdul Alim Khan, where the parties discussed issues of transport and logistics cooperation. During 2023, the volume of traffic between Russia and Pakistan doubled, and in the […]
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with visiting Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in Moscow. The main focus of the meeting was the Azerbaijan-Armenia peace process, with both sides working on the final conclusion of a peace treaty. They signed regulations on the joint activity of Armenian-Azerbaijani border delimitation commissions on August 30, 2024. Both […]
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with visiting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Moscow, shortly after hosting Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev. The main focus of the meeting was the Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process, with both sides working on the final conclusion of a peace treaty. They signed regulations on the joint activity of Armenian-Azerbaijani […]
October 25 Update: Cuba has now been granted ‘BRICS Partner’ status. See more here. The Cuban government has made an official request to join the BRICS bloc in a letter sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Carlos Pereira, the director general of bilateral affairs of the Cuban Foreign Ministry. He said that “Cuba […]
Syria is negotiating to join BRICS, according to Bashar Jaafari, the Syrian ambassador to Russia. “We are very interested in joining BRICS and Syria is in serious negotiations to join.” he said at the “North Caucasus: New Geostrategic Opportunities” event held last week in Pyatigorsk. The annual BRICS Heads of State meeting will be held […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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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