While China has been making all the technology running with its Electric Vehicles (EV) industry, the United States and European auto manufacturers have been left behind – mainly due to the US oil industry which has been slow to popularise non-oil fuel products. That tech gap has led the United States to place a 100% […]
Preparations for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea are ongoing, according to Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov. North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un invited Putin to visit his country when he travelled to Russia in September. It was reported earlier that the countries would work to set a time for Putin’s trip. Any trip
Moscow and New Delhi plan to start negotiations in June on potential visa-free travel for tourist groups, with a view to striking a bilateral deal by the end of the year, Nikita Kondratyev, director multilateral cooperation at the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, has said. ”The process regarding group visa-free travel has progressed. The Indian
Recent speeches and comments made by several Russian politicians and academics reveal that Russian society is moving away from its European counterparts and subsequently developing a separate character. We have already featured comments made by Russia’s new defense Minister, Andrei Belousov as well as Russian intellectual Aleksander Dugin in which both mention recent differences in
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India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has stated that New Delhi’s decision to purchase energy supplies from Moscow are pivotal to India and its rise as the world’s fastest-growing large economy. Speaking at an event in Mumbai, India’s financial capital, Jaishankar emphasized that the nation’s purchases of Russian crude since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict
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Rustam Habibullin, the head of the Russian Business Center in Afghanistan, has said that the trade turnover between Russia and Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US and NATO forces has increased significantly and reached US$1 billion. He stated that the main areas of trade are gas, oil products, flour and wheat, and more recently, dairy
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Russians made 5.3 million trips abroad in Q1 2024, which is an 8.8% increase from Q1 2023, according to the statistics of the Russian Federal Security Service’s Border Guard Service. Russians made 5,329,249 trips abroad for all purposes in the first quarter. Russian tourist tastes have changed as well, with European countries making it difficult
The Russian Association of Tour Operators (ATOR) has said that foreign tourist arrivals in Russia tripled year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024, and half of those tourists came from China, citing statistics from the Border Service of the Federal Security Service (FSB). ATOR stated that “Almost 218,800 foreign citizens who declared tourism as the
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The Russian National Reinsurance Company (RNPK) has increased its marine risk reinsurance, including cargo, and liability of shipowners by an immediate 20 – 30%. According to experts, this is due to the growth of the shadow fleet and the cost of shipping. For insurers, an increase in limits can mean not only an increase in
Andrey Belousov, a former Deputy Prime Minister, has been appointed as Russia’s new Minister of Defense. Belousov is a longstanding member of the Russian political elite who has held important government positions for the past 20 years. He is the first civilian to hold the post, and has spent most of his career working as
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