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By Pepe Escobar.

It will take ages to unpack the silos of information inbuilt in the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week, coupled with the – armored - train-keeps-a-rollin’ conducted by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un straddling every nook and cranny of Primorsky Krai.
The key themes...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The volume of trade between Russia and China may exceed $200 billion by the end of this year, the Russian Economic Development Minister Maxim Reshetnikov told reporters in Beijing.

The Russian delegation led by Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov is on a working...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russia is ranked 17th in the list of the world's largest food exporters. It also made the biggest jump in the top 20 over the past decade, with exports increasing by 2.5 times. But Russia wants to sell even more food products abroad. It's not even about feeding friendly countries...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The invitation to six countries to join BRICS should not be considered in the logic of the "Cold War of the last century". This is according to the Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauru Vieira who wrote in an article published in the Folha de São Paulo newspaper..

The head of the S...

By Rhod Mackenzie

A video conference was held the day after the G20 summit - on Monday 11 September. The venue in Moscow was the RIA Novosti International Multimedia Press Centre.

The editor-in-chief of Modern Indian Politics and Economics, Professor Ashwani Mahajan, explained India's position...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In the first half of 2023,the volume of trade between the Russian Federation and China grew by 40% - previously the countries have not shown such results, said the head of the Institute of Asian and African Studies at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Alexey Maslov, speakin...