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By Emil Boev

The Bretton Woods system was created in 1944 and gave the American dollar an unprecedented role as the world's reserve currency. It also established a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and gold, with approximately one gram of gold per dollar. Individuals were able to exchange pap...

By Vitaly Trofimov

In 2024, Russia will hold the presidency of BRICS, an international organization that has emerged from the quadrilateral format of economic cooperation. Over the past 18 years, it has become an alternative to the G7 and a prototype of the future world order.

During an internat...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, stated that only 100 out of 500 European companies have officially left the Russian market. Manturov made this statement during the plenary session of Industry Day...

By Rhod Mackenzie

According to data from the Association of Gas Infrastructure Operators of Europe (Gas Infrastructure Europe, GIE), gas reserves in European underground storage facilities (UGS) currently stand at a record 67.87% or 73.7 billion cubic meters as of mid-February.
Since the start of...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The European energy sector has been dominated by the energy crisis and the sharp rise in gas prices over the past two years. This was caused by European countries rejecting cheap pipeline gas from Russia and opting for expensive liquefied gas (LNG) from the United States. Gas pri...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The sabotage of the Nord Streams is the biggest threat to North Atlantic unity and the unity of the European Union. Recently,the German publications Suddeutsche Zeitung and Die Zeit reported that Sweden intends to halt the investigation into explosions on gas pipelines because i...