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By Anna Koroleva

In June 2023, Russia received a record share of revenue in rubles from exports to the countries of America and Europe, RIA Novosti calculated based on data from the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. The same situation is observed in "friendly currencies" - for deliveries to...

By Alexander Labykin

After withdrawing from the grain deal, Russia got rid of the price discount for its wheat on the world market. However, the growth of exports and profits of grain producers is limited by the current export duty

With the termination of the grain deal, wheat exports from Ukrai...

By Rhod Mackenzie

With the countries of Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates joining the BRICS, the multilateral mechanism now includes the World's major global oil producers and importers. Analysts now predict that a wider adoption of local currencies will be used for its trade among B...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The attractiveness of the BRICS countries demonstrates that the West has lost its former integration strength, and the world has entered a phase of development of a multipolar world order. This opinion was expressed on August 26 by the member of the Bundestag from the Alternative...

By Pepe Escobar

The Chinese President Xi Jinping defined all the major decisions embedded in the 15th BRICS summit in South Africa as “historic”. That may be seen as an understatement.
It will take time for the Global South, or Global Majority, or “Global Globe” (copyright President Lukashenko),...

By Alexandra Yudina

The expansion of the BRICS was a personal defeat for the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell, said Ramon Schak, a journalist for the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung.
In his article, he emphasized that "so...