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November 10, 2025

Primorsky Krai Investors Putting Billions Into Commercial Maritime Logistics Construction Projects

Primorsky Krai investors in the Russian Far East are implementing four projects for the construction of logistics complexes, with a total announced investment in excess of ₽120 billion (US$1.5 billion), according to Yana Ryzhkova, Deputy Minister of Forestry, Environmental Protection, Wildlife, and Natural Resources of Primorsky Krai. She has stated that Primorsky local companies have […]

November 9, 2025

Russia-China Trade & Investment Trends Shifting: Latest Development Updates

The visit of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to China has resulted in a recalibration of bilateral trade, with China increasingly seen by Russia as promising for import substitution of technologies. While general trade, with oil dominating, was previously the key topic, the bilateral trade focus has now shifted. Attention is now on industrial cooperation […]

November 9, 2025

Russia and China To Cooperate On Arctic & Northern Sea Route, Train Navigation Specialists

Russia and China will strengthen cooperation on Arctic issues, according to a joint communiqué following the 30th regular meeting of their heads of government. Russian Prime Minister Mishustin recently visited Beijing and took part in these discussions. The communique states “They agreed to develop cooperation on Arctic issues, including interaction within the Subcommittee on Cooperation […]

November 8, 2025

Russia’s Uralchem Donates 30,000 tonnes of Fertilizer To Bangladesh

Russian fertilizer company Uralchem has donated 30,000 metric tons of potash to Bangladesh as a humanitarian gesture, the company said in a statement on Thursday. The shipment was conducted under the United Nations World Food Program. Uralchem CEO Dmitry Konyaev said that mineral fertilizers play a crucial role in boosting crop yields and ensuring a […]

November 8, 2025

Russia’s Wheat Gluten Exports To India Up Nine-Fold During 2025 Year-to-Date

Russia increased its exports of wheat gluten to India 9-fold year-on-year to over 1,500 tonnes in January-September 2025, while the value of the exports grew almost 7-fold to reach US$1.7 million, Russia’s Agroexport federal center reported. Russia started exporting this product to India in 2020. India was the fourth biggest importer of wheat gluten from […]

November 7, 2025

Armenia Considering Importing Russian Goods Via Azerbaijan

In signs that regional relations, impacted by the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, are now returning to normal, Armenia is considering the possibility of importing various goods from Russia by rail through Azerbaijan, according to Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Prime Minister. Armenia is landlocked, with its only regional sea access either via Azerbaijan on the Caspian or through […]

November 7, 2025

Russia Relaxes VAT Threshold Payments For Its SMEs by 50%

The Russian government has accounted for the wishes of businesses and members of parliament and proposed a gradual transition to VAT payment for small- and medium-sized businesses on a simplified tax system, lowering the payment revenue mechanism from a threshold of ₽20 million (US$245,000) to ₽10 million (US$125,000) over the coming three years, Prime Minister […]

November 7, 2025

Gazprom Sets Another New Record For Daily Gas Supplies To China

Gazprom has for the sixth time in two months set a new record for daily gas supplies to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline, the company has stated, saying that “on November 5, Gazprom recorded a new all-time high in daily gas deliveries to China via Power of Siberia. The delivered volume exceeded Gazprom’s […]

November 6, 2025

The IMF Have Not Visited Either Russia Or Belarus This Decade. How Can Their Economic Analysis Be Accurate?

Russian academics have begun questioning the level of economic and political intelligence being cited by the West when it comes its collective analysis of Russia, with many perplexed about how the West so consistently sticks to its statements that it is being threatened by Russia, that the country is collapsing, and economic decline is imminent. […]

November 6, 2025

The Impartiality Of The Kyiv School of Economics – As Vested Interests Interfere

The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) has become the de facto go-to resource for Western economic intelligence about both Ukraine and Russia, with especially the Financial Times regularly quoting its research and statistics. Yet how impartial and honest is its data? The KSE functions as a non-state think tank, however, is funded by donors such […]

November 6, 2025

India’s Gem Processing Industry Destabilized Due To US-Introduced Chaos Over Russian Raw Diamonds

First, the good news: Russia doubled its diamond exports to India year on year in August, according to data from India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry. They surged to a value of US$31.3 million in August 2025, more than double the US$13.4 million recorded in August 2024. Russia is the world’s largest producer of rough […]

November 5, 2025

Russia To Develop Far East Financial Stock Exchange

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin has instructed the government, together with the Bank of Russia, to prepare proposals for the development of a financial centre in the Far East based on the Eastern Exchange, the Kremlin has stated. The Kremlin said that “The Russian government, together with the Bank of Russia, shall prepare and submit […]

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