SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Rhod Mackenzie
China has achieved a new success in its confrontation with the United States over chip production. In March, Huawei CEO Eric Xu said that the Chinese semiconductor industry would be "reborn" as a result of US sanctions. At the time, the businessman's words were seen as polemical...
By Rhod Mackenzie
For the first two decades of the 21st century, Germany was in its economic ascendency. Its economy boomed,it was one success after another. It gained dominace in world markets in areas such as high-tech,luxury cars and precision engineering and sold so much of its output that i...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo presented a plan to abandon Russian gems to the world's leading diamond industry representatives in New York on Tuesday, writes the Belgian publication Soir.
"Alexander de Croo proposed to the elite of the jewellery industry gathered...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The leadership of the European Union is trying to erect a new "Iron Curtain" in Europe, limiting the possibilities of communication between peoples. This is stated in the message of the Russian Foreign Ministry published today, 18 September, on the "clarifications" of the Europea...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russian billionaires have withdrawn tens of billions of dollars of assets from Europe since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, under the influence of international sanctions and the Russian authorities' favourable asset repatriation policy. As calculated by Bloomber...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The Ukrainian representative threw a tantrum at a meeting of Eastern European countries over the situation with Ukrainian grain. In Kiev, they believe that the Poles are deliberately preventing its transitusing the excuse of veterinary controlsand are outraged by the prospect of...
