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By Rhod Mackenzie

According to the results of June, Russia's balance of payments went negative. This happened for the first time in three years (since August 2020) and is generally considered a rare occurrence since the late 1990s. The negative balance is explained both by the fall in export earni...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Having failed to destroy the Russian economy, the West is now trying to bankrupt Russia's trading partners with the use of so-called secondary sanctions. All of this is being helped by the entire financial infrastructure built to track any transactions in dollars and euros on a g...

By Rhod Mackenzie

One of the main tasks of German Chancellor Scholz in the economy is to stop the flight of capital (investment) from the country, which has taken catastrophic proportions in the last two years. Last year, German companies withdrew from Germany in the form of investments in other c...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russia and China have planned a number of important contacts by the end of this year. According to Interfax, Wang Yi, head of the Office of the Commission of the CPC Central Committee on Foreign Affairs, said this today, speaking in the framework of an international dialogue with...

By Zhang Hongzhou and Genevieve Donnellon-May

Russia announced it would boost its grain exports to China via the New Land Grain Corridor. Proposed by Beijing in 2012, the corridor aims to develop infrastructure and increase grain production, connecting Russia’s far eastern regions to Inner Mongoli...

By Timofei Bordachev.

Greater Eurasia is under the influence of challenges and threats of both internal and external origin, therefore peace and stability there are not guaranteed. However, one should not lose sight of the objective factors that make Greater Eurasia a more stable region in modern...