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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Russian billionaires have withdrawn tens of billions of dollars of assets from Europe since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, under the influence of international sanctions and the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...
By Rhod Mackenzie
China's resale to Europe of some of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplied by Gazprom's Portovaya liquefaction complex is quite possible if EU countries face a cold winter, Igbal Guliyev, deputy director of the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO, to...
By Rhod Mackenzie
A number of leading oil companies in India are considering the possibility of using revenues from assets in Russia totalling $600 million to buy oil from the Russian Federation because of difficulties in repatriating dividends, The Economic Times newspaper reported, citing offici...
By Rhod Mackenzie
US measures to restrict chip exports to China violate market rules and will lead to the fragmentation of the global semiconductor market, said Chinese commerce ministry spokesman He Yadong.
In early September, US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the US would be as strict...
