SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Rhod Maceknzie
Uzbekistan has become the third country that Vladimir Putin will visit after his inauguration. Moscow and Tashkent are engaged in a process of intensifying collaboration across a range of sectors, including economic and social-humanitarian areas. The expert community views the re...
By Rhod Mackenzie
By 2030, the most powerful nuclear icebreaker, "Russia", is scheduled for completion. This will make the Russian Northern Sea Route a year-round and commercially profitable route. This will give our country another advantage in the battle for influence in the Arctic, which is jus...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Moscow plans to build transport and logistics centres, industrial parks and other infrastructure in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. In this way, Russia will begin to redirect its non-resource, non-energy exports to new markets, Izvestiya learned. The government intends...
By Rhod Mackenzie
A meeting of the heads of space agencies of the BRICS countries has opened in Moscow. The event was attended by both the old members of the association and the new ones that joined it on 1 January 2024. At the plenary session, the heads of Roscosmos presented Russian initiatives...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Last year alone, trillions of roubles were brought back to Russia by representatives of the richest class of Russian citizens. They used to believe that it was more profitable to keep money in foreign accounts, but now they take the opposite position. What has happened, and what...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russia is actively increasing the production of a strategically important resource – helium. Currently, the largest market players are the USA, Qatar and Algeria. However, in the coming years, the balance of power may change significantly. According to scientists, by 2030 Russia...
