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By Emil Avdaliani

Russia and Uzbekistan have had historically close ties, with economic and geopolitical rationale pushing the two countries to seek closer ties. For Russia, Uzbekistan arguably has the most strategic location in the Central Asian region, as the country shares borders with all Cent...

Reinventing foreign policy “wheels” brings young states back to reality and to the tradition of a realistic understanding of what your national experience is: foreign policy potential, resources, and vital and secondary interests. The correlation of subjective national experience with foreign policy...

A deepening of the comprehensive China-Russia economic and trade cooperation is actually a puzzle, as the two countries learn from each other’s strengths and make up for each other’s weaknesses, writes Valdai Club expert Wang Wen.

1) China-Russia cooperation, under the impetus of internal and exte...

By Sergey Mikhnevich.

In order to achieve maximum benefits in economic cooperation within the framework of BRICS, it is necessary to involve the private sector as actively as possible; particularly through business associations of both BRICS and partner institutions such as the SCO and the EAEU,...

Chris Devonshire-Ellis has been interviewed by Sputnik International and Sputnik India concerning the Eurasian Economic Forum in Moscow, during which discussions are being held to unify the BRICS, EAEU and SCO.

Also on that agenda is India, with the country already a member of BRICS and the SCO an...

India is looking at the rupee ruble payment system with Russia as a long term arrangement. An exercise that started off primarily to ease payments after Russia was barred from accessing the SWIFT international system as part of the stringent sanctions on Moscow, is no more a temporary project linked...