By Rhod Mackenzie
The decision by OPEC+ nations to reduce oil production highlights the alliance's proactive stance, rather than waiting for commodity prices to drop due to sluggish demand growth, according to analysts cited by the newspaper Izvestia. Russia has agreed to cut oil production by 200...
By Pavel Devyatkin
Is there really a Russian-Chinese partnership in the Arctic? What is China’s role in the Arctic and how far does it go beyond climate change and environmental protection? These are some of the most hotly debated questions in Arctic security studies and they were at the top of my...
By Rhod Mackenzie
A seminar on the utilisation of the potential of the Việt Nam-China-Russia international intermodal rail transport route was conducted in Moscow.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Russia organised the event, which had a participation of 200 representatives from pertinent agencies of th...
By Thomas Lethoba
The 15th BRICS Summit saw leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa reach a consensus to ramp up efforts of expanding the bloc of nations, with the announcement of six additional countries.
In a move aimed at changing the world order, a five-nation group of emerg...
By Vali Kaleji
On the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this mega project has been significantly affected by the war and conflict in Ukraine and the Western sanctions against Russia, writes Valdai Club expert Vali Kaleji.
In his article, Dr. Vali Kaleji, a Tehran-based expe...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Russian Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina showed Western economists an example of high-quality work under stressful conditions. In fact, she shattered all their illusory ideas about the financial system of the world, created over the course of the last 30 years.The econ...