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Since the start of the special military operation (SMO), and the the disconnection of numerous Russian banks from the global SWIFT interbank telecommunications system, a number of significant market players have moved to the development of their own national payment systems. These are being created...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In light of the West's refusal to buy Russian oil, other buyers are showing a huge interest in it and are buying it vast quantities.plus most of them are really making serious amounts of money out of it and if fact the only people who are not making money out of it are the Euro...

Of the 53 tankers subject to sanctions, only three were able to continue their work transporting Russian oil, while the remainder were forced to cease operations. This is the conclusion reached by Bloomberg. However, the situation is not as straightforward as it may appear at first glance. There are...

When I was a young journalist starting out in the calling,yes back then being a journalist was a calling and was all about facts,about integrity, honesty and balance something that has now dissapeared completely a bit like the newspapers themselves Now in the smoke filled newsrooms of the provincia...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic Alliance, the American National Security Archive has released a new batch of declassified documents on relations with Russia. Please refer to the RIA Novosti material for a summary of the key points from the published r...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Over the past two years, the concept of the "Global Majority" has emerged as a prominent feature in Russian foreign policy discourse. The term is used to define the group of more than 100 countries that are not participating in the West’s economic sanctions against Russia. The mo...