By Rhod Mackenzie
As Turkey intends to turn itself into a gas hub with the support of Russia, then Morocco invites Russia to join the project of creating a coal hub on its territory. In general, Africans want more business from Russia
“The volume of trade between Russia and Morocco is close to $...
By Oleg Barabanov
We see a real increase in global competition for Africa, a kind of ‘race of billions’ in cooperation programmes with it. This, by the way, gives the African countries themselves the opportunity to choose, writes Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.
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By Ma Jingjing
Japanese export controls on 23 crucial chip-manufacturing items took effect on Sunday. This comes as Japan has blindly followed Washington's lead in containing China. Chinese analysts said Japan's unreasonable move will make its chip industry face a Waterloo again, as Japanese chipm...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The II Russia-Africa Forum starts in St. Petersburg on Thursday. The arrival of the heads of many states of the continent is expected, real progress in the formation of a common agenda for economic and humanitarian cooperation between Russia and the countries of the continent.
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By Rhod Mackenzie
Russia has triumphed in global commodity markets in recent days as it sells oil above the price ceiling set by the West. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal on July 23 , citing Argus Media, a commodity data collection company.
Russia has won the battle for influence in...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The second Russia-Africa summit, which St. Petersburg will host on July 27-28, differs sharply in its context from the first forum four years ago. The tectonic shifts in the economic and military-political structure of the world that have taken place over the past year and a half...