SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Rhod Mackenzie
Over the past 23 years, Russian agriculture has made an incredible leap forward. From total devastation in 1999, when Russia was forced to turn to the United States to receive grain on credit, to one of the world's largest exporters.The exports of Russian produce have increased t...
By Rhod Mackenzie
In 2023, the Russian Federation became the leader in terms of trade turnover growth among China's partners. This was announced on February 11 by Ivan Zhelohovtsev, the director of the first Asian department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
He noted in an interview with RIA Novo...
Russia's presidency of BRICS has resulted in a total revamp of the organization, South African sherpa Anil Sooklal has told in an exclusive interview.
Sookhal, who is also his country's sherpa for the G20 and IBSA (India-Brazil-South Africa), recalled that Moscow is one of the founding members of...
At first glance, the planned BRICS expansion seems unlikely to radically reshape the geopolitical status quo. But against the backdrop of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and mounting tensions between China and the US, the move may well have wider implications for the existing global order, writes Rachel...
By Wang Jinyan
Since the founding of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum, a dialogue initiative jointly set up by China and the League of Arab States in 2004, China-Arab relations have been scaling new heights.
As important players of the Global South, China and the Arab States have been str...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Andrei Rudenko, expressed confidence that all issues regarding settlements between Russia and China, including those related to the financial messaging system (SPFS), will be resolved.
Rudenko denied any indication that Chi...
