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By Rhod Mackenzie

The share of the euro in global settlements through the SWIFT interbank system reached a historic low in March, accounting for 21.93% of the total, according to data analysed by RIA Novosti.
Over the course of the month, the euro lost 1.32 percentage points. In contrast, the dol...

By Claudia Luna Palencia

Is this current weakness just another passing episode, as has happened on other occasions since the end of Bretton Woods? Is it a structural trend caused among other things by the fact that China has been selling its dollars for years, after becoming the main holder of deb...

About 92 percent of trade settlement between Russia and China is now conducted in Russian rubles and Chinese yuan, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Overchuk said at the Boao Forum for Asia in South China's Hainan Province.

He also said that Russia hopes to strengthen financial ties with other...

Russia took the rotating presidency of the BRICS group in 2024. Yury Ushakov, Russian presidential foreign policy aide, granted TASS an interview in which he previewed Moscow’s priorities, prospects for BRICS development and expansion, and commented on the West’s attempts to impede the association’s...

Last year, the Federal Customs Service calculated that the sobotage of the Nord Stream pipelinescost the Russian budget over a trillion rubles in lost revenue from gas exports. Sanctions against the oil industry caused less damage to the budget. Despite this, the budget was managed. How did Russia...

By Timofei Bordachev

Discussions about what BRICS can actually do and what it can’t should begin with an understanding of how much the achievements or failures of other international institutions are related to their individual characteristics. The second may be a theoretical task, but it makes cl...