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An on-going debate has been raging in the West about using frozen Russian capital – about US$282 billion, mostly belonging to the Bank of Russia – to generate funds to give to Ukraine. Of this money, about US$6 billion is held in the United States, with the vast majority being held in Europe. Opinions on […]
The Western media has been somewhat gleefully announcing that Gazprom, Russia’s largest gas producer, have announced losses for the first time in 20 years. They are estimated to be in the red to the tune of US$6.9 billion for 2023 results. The company, which is headquartered in St.Petersburg, had built its business model largely on […]
The Kazakhstan based fintech group Kaspi.kz has entered into a partnership agreement with Alipay+ to launch a payment service in China using Kaspi’s mobile application and QR code, Kaspi has stated in a press release. Kazakhstan’s citizens that live or travel in China will be able to make payments using the QR code from the […]
The Sri Lankan authorities have decided to transfer the management of the southern Mattal Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) in Hambantota to the Russian airport management company AR Regional Airports and India’s Shauraya Aeronautics. MRIA is one of three international airports in Sri Lanka and was built to offset pressure at the main airport in the […]
India and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) have been holding discussions concerning a proposed free trade agreement for some time now. With the EAEU including Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia, the concept holds considerable promise for India as it looks to secure new markets – Kazakhstan is a target, as is Russia, without having […]
Tucker Carlson is well known in the West as a high-profile current events talking head, where up until 2023 he was the most prominent voice on Fox News. He was subsequently dismissed from Fox and has established himself as a voice for alternative opinions – most recently with his interview with Vladimir Putin, which was […]
The World Bank has identified ten critical actions to address the most pressing short-term bottlenecks across the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), also known as the Middle Corridor, according to a brief published on the bank’s official website. The solutions are based on a tripling of trade volumes through the Middle Corridor by 2030. With […]
The first meeting on the development of the international Belarus-Russia-Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan multimodal transport corridor with access to Indian Ocean Seaports has been held in Termez, Uzbekistan, and was attended by officials from respective national transport departments, freight forwarding companies and businesses. They discussed the possibilities of increasing the volume of international cargo transportation along land corridors, […]
Ulaanbaatar plans to increase the capacity of checkpoints with Russia by at least 3 times, with the Mondy automobile checkpoint at the Russian Republic of Buryatia and the border with Mongolia being modernised. The border crossing will have nine lanes instead of today’s one. The capacity will be slightly less than 600 vehicles per day. […]
On April 19, in Beijing, Andrei Slepnev, joint chair of the Minister of Trade of the Eurasian Economic Commission and Li Fei, China’s Vice Minister of Commerce held discussions of the Joint Commission on the implementation of the Agreement on Trade and Economic Cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Union and the PRC. China has a […]
An estimated 50% of all financial transactions conducted between Russia and China are facilitated by means of intermediaries to avoid exposure by Chinese lenders to the risk of secondary sanctions, Reuters have reported, citing trade consultants and bankers, as well as importers and exporters. In December, US President Joe Biden signed an executive order that […]
The Department of Statistics of the Eurasian Economic Commission has published a monthly analytical review of the main socio-economic indicators of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) for January-February 2024. During the first two months of 2024, there was an increase in industrial production of the EAEU by 3.8%, the volume of construction work performed by […]
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