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By Anna Koroleva

The Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Addad said that Brazil has offered Argentina to use the yuan as a guarantee instrument in bilateral trade. Thus, TASS reports, the Chinese currency can replace for these two countries the American one, which is still used. The state bank Ban...

By Sergey Manukov

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) importers are becoming more active on the London and Singapore exchanges. Moreover, not only as buyers, but also as sellers. Moreover, they sell excess gas so vigorously that they gradually begin to compete with traders from Shell, BP, Equinor and Tota...

By Evgeny Pozdnyakov

Russia, as the initiator of the creation of BRICS, welcomes the expansion of the organization. Now the block is able to reflect the interests of the Persian Gulf countries. In addition, the influence of unification in Latin America is growing. Political scientist Stanislav Tka...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Six nations will become full-fledged members of the BRICS group of nations starting January 2024, after their candidacies were approved by leaders of the current member states, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced. The expansion topped the agenda of the summit in...

By Sophia Smirnova

According to the Executive Vice President of the African Export-Import Bank, George Elomby, the agreements reached at the July Russia-Africa summit will double the trade between the countries of the Black Continent and the Russian Federation, up to $40 billion by the end of 2026...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The United States purchased 416 tons of uranium from Russia in the first half of 2023, which is 2.2 times more than in the same period last year. On Thursday, August 24, RIA Novosti reported with reference to US statistics.

According to the agency's calculations, Washington's p...