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By Rhod Mackenzie

The Russian State Duma plans to consider the bill on regulating cryptocurrency mining in the first reading in the coming days. The bill was drafted a year and a half ago and has since undergone several revisions. It was only recently, following the president’s order last week, th...

By Rhod Mackenzie
Since 2022 Russia has embarked on a major programme of import substitution to replace their dependency on western technology and equipment, lets look at how that is going in trains,planes and automobiles.

Towards the end of 2023, Russian Railways initiated the inaugural journey...

By Rhod Mackenzie

From January to May 2024, 1.9 million tons of fertilizers were supplied to the EU from Russia. The European statistical agency attributes this to the fact that the high cost of gas forced EU chemical companies to cease production. What other factors have contributed to the increa...

There is currently a proposal to merge Russia's Mir payment system with those of the other BRICS countries. The experience of merging Russia's Mir system with Iran's Shetab could serve as an example, Tehran believes. Similar projects are already being discussed with Turkey and India, Russia's main t...

In the West, many banks, airports and even hospitals suddenly stopped working. This was due to a global outage of the Windows operating system caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. At the same time, the technical problems had virtually no impact on Russia. How did our countr...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The German Government' shameful and cowardly cover up of the culprits behind the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines continues
Lets reacll on the night of 26 September 2022, explosions occurred on the pipelines of the Nord Streams. Three of the 4 pipelines were damaged .The ex...