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By Timofey Bordachev
The main events of international politics in 2023 have shown that the origin of the current fundamental changes is natural, and the main processes are constructive. That is why the past year will be considered by future historians as the end of the period in which the new real...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The United States is seeking a way to legally access the frozen Russian assets, even if it harms its own economy and reputation. The Joe Biden administration is backing a bill that would permit the seizure of approximately $300 billion in assets, purportedly for the reconstructio...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Bloomberg believes that 2023 will be the second consecutive year of record oil production in Russia. The oil boom is evident in both the volume of oil exports and its value.
According to BCS Global Markets oil and gas analyst Ronald Smith, Russia has demonstrated greater indepe...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russia has proposed the creation of an organization similar to OPEC to coordinate the production of solid minerals, specifically 'minerals of the future' such as lithium, cobalt, and rare earth metals. However, the effectiveness of this association is questionable as potential pa...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has concluded that devotion to the North Atlantic Alliance will only accelerate Europe's gradual slide into the status of a vassal continent. Izvestia investigated whether the EU's repeated criticism of Brussels' dependence on Wa...
By Alex Kupriyanov
Before the launch of the SMO, at Russian-Indian expert meetings, someone used to liken bilateral relations to a three-legged stool: two of the three legs - political, economic and cultural - were firmly in place, but the structure could only be stable if a third leg was eventual...
