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The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) held Ministerial-level meetings last week, followed by Russian President Vladimir Putin flying to Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Sunday (May 26) for talks with Uzbekistan’s President, Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The CIS includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. CIS members are set to enter a new agreement on free […]
Russia is now planning reconstruction of industrial sites in the Donbass following moves into the area after previous heavy fighting. These plans are rarely, if ever, reported in Western media. However, assessments and reconstruction plans are being carried out throughout the Donbass region, according to Denis Pushilin, the Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic. In […]
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has stated that trade turnover in the Commonwealth of Independent States(CIS) gained two thirds over the past four years. This year Russia chairs the CIS, he noted, adding that Moscow considers completion of the plan of action to implement the first stage of the Commonwealth’s economic development strategy through the […]
Maxim Vasiliev, Russia’s Trade Representative with Mongolia has suggested that the Mongolian government has linked its future economic growth to the successful signing of a Free Trade Agreement with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). He was speaking at the economic conference “Prospects for the development of trade, economic and investment cooperation between Mongolia and the […]
Russia plans to open embassies in Sierra Leone, Niger, and South Sudan soon, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a reception of the upcoming Africa Day at the Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday (May 23). The Russian embassy to Burkina Faso resumed its operations last December. We describe the basic economic and demographic situation […]
Aleksey Likhachev, the Director-General of Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, and Ajit Kumar Mohanty, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India, have discussed expanding cooperation in nuclear energy in India, according to Rosatom. Likhachev and Mohanty, held talks during a Russian nuclear site visit in Seversk, Tomsk Region on Thursday (May 23). […]
Mikhail Galuzin, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, has stated that the total volume of trade turnover with Central Asia in 2023 exceeded US$44 billion, representing 33% of all foreign trade of the Central Asian states. Meanwhile, the use of mutual currency settlements in this trade in national currencies of Russia with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan has […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Algeria will become a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) after obtaining dialogue partner and subsequent observer status, after Algiers applied to become a dialogue partner of the SCO on Tuesday (May 21). The SCO, which accounts for some 20% of global GDP, was founded in 2001 by […]
Update – August 14: Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s Security Council Secretary has reaffirmed Russia’s readiness to continue development and interaction between the Security Council of the Russian Federation and the Public Security Ministry of Laos, in meetings with Chansamone Chanyalath, the National Defense Minister of Laos, in Moscow. Laos, a member of the southeast ASEAN bloc, […]
A new storage warehouse has opened in the cargo terminal at Krasnoyarsk Airport in southern Siberia, which will provide new logistical networks for the shipments of goods from the airport to Asia. The opening of the new warehouse at the cargo terminal took place on Tuesday (May 21), the airport said on social media. The […]
Vietnam’s TH Group has begun construction of a livestock complex for a total population of 10,000 cows in the Yakovlevsky district of Primorsky Krai (Province) with commissioning scheduled for 2027, the Russian Far East and Arctic Development Corporation has reported. The project is being implemented by TH Rus Primorsky LLC, a resident of the Mikhailovsky […]
South Africa’s PetroSA and Russia’s Gazprombank are currently investigating the feasibility of restarting operations at South Africa’s gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel plant in Mossel Bay in South Africa’s Western Cape. PetroSA spokeswoman Nonny Mashika-Dennison has said that all factors affecting the viability of restarting operations at the refinery were being considered as part of a comprehensive […]
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