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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...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Throughout 2023, the West has been debating the possibility of abandoning liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia. The United States aims to 'strangle' the Arctic LNG 2 plant, a key Russian LNG project. However, Europe ultimately recognized the impossibility of the abandoning of...
By Rhod Mackenzie
On January 1, Russia took over the chairmanship of BRICS. Since the beginning of this year, five more countries have joined the association: Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Argentina was also expected to join, but its new president, Javier Miley, abruptly change...
