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By Rhod Mackenzie

A recent survey of 75 central banks world wide has illustrated a serious reorientation of financial flows, with a shift away from the dollar and towards gold, the euro, and the yuan. Lets recall Russia pioneered this trend over a decade ago after sanctions were introduced against...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The  Russian Ministry of Trade and Industry is considering the extending of the current parallel import mechanism until 2026. Roman Chekushov,the  State Secretary and Deputy Minister, announced to the journalists. A discussion was held on the potential for parallel imports to ful...

By Rhod Mackenzie
The severe demographic crisis has emerged as an unanticipated challenge for the Baltic states. Nature's ability to adapt to change is evident in the population dynamics, with a decline in some species being offset by an increase in others, particularly predators. There has been an...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The NATO summit in The Hague concluded on Wednesday. However even before it actually started, there were indications that there was a significant crisis brewing within the world's largest military alliance. Analysts are predicting that NATO could eventually break into several b...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Germany and Italy, two G7  European countries which store a significant proportion of their gold reserves in the United States, have been urged by people in the country to bring their bullion back home. But is this possible, and what would the consequences be for the US and the g...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russian and China who are members of both the SCO,BRICS  plus being large trading partners really need to sign off on the deal for both the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline and some long term contracts for the Russian Arctic LNG as this would solve a number of the potential energy sup...