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The course of the ruble: how the EAEU develops trade despite sanctions

By Dmitry Alekseev

The mutual trade turnover of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in national and friendly currencies in 2023 will amount to 90%, the Russian Foreign Ministry predicts. The department is confident that dollars, euros and yen are unreliable currencies, and the implementation of EAE...

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Russia implements an energy pivot to the south

By Dmitry Skvortsov

The EU's refusal to purchase Russian electricity has become one of the most important points of the West's sanctions program against the economy of the country. However, the effect of this measure turned out to be the opposite: the sanctions stimulated the resumption of a whole...

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