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By Ekaterina Blinova

The Biden administration has brought in restrictions to American investments in China's semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum computing and certain artificial intelligence capabilities as part of a broader trade tit-for-tat.
Joe Biden signed an executive order on Augus...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Iranian foreign minister met on Friday and held talks with the Southe African Cyril Ramaphosa at the Union Buildings which form the official seat of the South African government and also house the offices of the president of South Africa.

President Ramaphosa said the BRICS...

By Uriel Araujo

In another chapter of its economic war, on August 9, Washington announced it would restrict US venture capital and private equity firms investments in Chinese artificial intelligence and semiconductors. It is uncertain whether American policy-making has taken into consideration all...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russian oil companies earned, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the highest amount of money since November last year - $15.3 billion in July. At the same time, the price ceiling of $60 per barrel of Russian oil, set last year by the G7, has been exceeded. The pr...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Russian economy has adapted to the current challenges and has shown fairly stable growth based on domestic demand. GDP in the second quarter grew by 4.6%, industrial production in June increased by 13% yoy, and non-oil and gas revenues showed an increase of 20% in seven month...

By Sung-Hoon Jeh

The Ukraine crisis is a confrontation between the US and Russia to take the initiative in the world order. In other words, it is a military conflict between the US, which is trying to prevent the emergence of a hegemonic state in the post-Soviet region in order to maintain a unip...