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BRICS, Russia and Iran: 2024 Developments and Implications 

BRICS, Eurasian Economic Union, Security, Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, Trade

Vladimir Putin has met with Masoud Pezeshkian, the President of Iran at the BRICS Summit in Kazan. This is what they had to say: Putin: “This visit to Russia is your first as President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and this has great symbolic importance. Iran has become a full participant of BRICS, and […]

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BRICS and the New Development Bank: 2024 Progress Report and Potential Expansion

BRICS, Economy, Finance, Infrastructure, Investment

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has met with the President of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB), Dilma Rousseff. The NDB acts as a BRICS development platform and invests in infrastructure projects, often in the green sector, in BRICS nations. Equity investors include Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Russia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates,

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Chinese and Vietnamese Banks Interested In Opening Branches In Russia

China, Finance, Trade

Chinese and Vietnamese banks are interested in expanding into and opening branches in Russia, according to Anatoly Aksakov, the Chairman of the State Duma’s Financial Market Committee. Aksakov is also the head of the Association of Banks of Russia’s council. He said “Several credit organizations from China, not the top tier or largest ones, are

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Russia’s Unusual, British, Slippery, and Fishy Bilateral Eel Trade

Agriculture, Imports, Investment, Miscellaneous, Trade

Russia has been buying millions of eels from the UK’s only eel supplier, according to a report in the Guardian newspaper. It is a bilateral trade that raises almost as many questions as the surprising nature of the trade itself. The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a protected, red-listed species, with the number of elvers

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UN Secretary-General To Attend BRICS Summit As A Powerful Multipolar Group Emerges

Africa, BRICS, China, Economy, India, Infrastructure, Trade

The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, is to attend the 2024 BRICS Heads of State summit, which kicks off today (October 22) in Kazan, Russia. The UN is an official observer to the group, however Guterres personal participation sends a strong signal that the BRICS is very much now part of what

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Russia Wants To Set Up Transport and Logistics Hubs In Turkiye’s Azov and Black Sea Regions

BRICS, Infrastructure, Logistics & Transport, Trade

Yevgeny Pakhomov, Russia’s deputy director of the international cooperation and foreign trade licensing department at the Ministry of Industry and Trade has said that Russia is interested in creating industrial “points of presence” in Turkey to develop exports and cooperation. He said “We don’t regard points as just manufacturing facilities themselves, but also the creation

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