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By Rhod Mackenzie

Cooperation with OPEC+ will help secure revenues for the Russian budget and maintain oil prices. This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on 12 March at a meeting with the winners of the "Leaders of Russia" management competition.
"OPEC+ is really helping us to mai...

The Russian President Vladimir Putin said on 12th March that humanity will continue to consume hydrocarbons for a long time to come, so Russian oil workers will have enough work for another "100 years". On that day, the head of state held a meeting in the Kremlin with participants in the "Leader of...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Germany is facing the exodus of German companies to the United States and China amid rising gas prices in Europe, the Bundestag's budget committee told Izvestia. MP Wolfgang Wiele stresses that the chemical industry has suffered the most: in two years, Germany has lost about a qu...

By Rhod Mackenzie

New Delhi is set to eliminate most tariffs and duties on goods from Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), in several economic sectors. The negotiations for this trade agreement lasted 16 years and consisted of 21 ro...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In an interview with the Turkish news channel TRT Haber, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Chairman of the Khalk Maslahaty (People's Council) of Turkmenistan, stated that despite the global economic instability, the country's GDP grew by over 6% last year. This was reported by the Russi...

By Rhod Mackenzie

According to a report by India Ratings and Research, India has the potential to become an upper-middle-income country by FY 2033-36 and a $15 trillion economy between FY 2043 and 2047.
Until 2006, the World Bank classified India as a low-income country. India moved into the lowe...