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Well now just over a week we has gone are now in a position to ascertain precisely how long it an idiot to understand something.

A week has elapsed since Vladimir Putin gave the collective West his peace proposals.
To anybody with any common sense ithas become apparent that the plan for resolvi...

In April 2024, China imported a total of 14.737 billion cubic metres (in the form of liquefied natural gas and through pipelines). This represents a 6.5% increase compared to the previous year, according to a report from the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China. This r...

By Rhod Mackenzie

According to a report in the newspaper Izvestia, payments from Russia to China have improved in recent months. In March and April, there were almost no transfers to China. However, this changed following Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing. As the entrepreneurs explained, small reg...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russia and Vietnam are consistently switching to using national currencies in trade. Now the share of transactions in rubles and dongs has reached 60%, Vladimir Putin said during his visit to the republic on June 20. In addition, Moscow and Hanoi agreed on a joint statement on ex...

British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe, founder and head of the petrochemical giant Ineos Group, has stated that the high cost of electricity and carbon have undermined the competitiveness of the European petrochemical industry, sending it into a state of decline.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Mr R...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Brazil became one of the countries that did not sign the final declaration of the summit in Switzerland on Ukraine. The largest country in Latin America criticizes the United States, refuses to follow Western sanctions and supports Russian efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine....