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By Rhod Mackenzie
By 2035, Russia will increase its gold production by 27% and become the world's leading producer of this precious metal, according to the telegram channel of Alexander Kozlov, the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation.
According to Vestnik Zolotopr...
By Abbas Juma
A politician succeeds when he is able to balance skilfully in a crisis situation, to gain maximum benefit where others are drowning. A successful politician will not stand on the sidelines; he will participate in all important processes, including international conflicts. Keeping as...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The US president Joe Biden hopes to meet the presidents of the Central Asian states on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on either 19 or 20 September. This will be the first time that negotiations have been held at the level of heads of state, as opposed to foreign ministe...
By Rhod Mackenzie
At the VIII Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) held in Vladivostok on 10-13 September, 373 agreements worth 3.8 trillion roubles were signed. The largest were for projects in the Amur region, Trans-Baikal, the Khabarovsk Territory and Primorye. In addition to Russia's friends, there we...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russian billionaires have withdrawn tens of billions of dollars of assets from Europe since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, under the influence of international sanctions and the Russian authorities' favourable asset repatriation policy. As calculated by Bloomber...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Ukrainian representative threw a tantrum at a meeting of Eastern European countries over the situation with Ukrainian grain. In Kiev, they believe that the Poles are deliberately preventing its transitusing the excuse of veterinary controlsand are outraged by the prospect of...
