By Rhod Mackenzie
The Serbian parliament has called for a public debate on the possibility of republic's entry into the BRICS alliance. At least three political parties are in favour of joining the structure, one of which is part of the ruling coalition, according to a an MP in the Parliament. In...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The collective West, led by the United States, seems to have miscalculated once again. This time, Washington, London and Brussels clearly overestimated the importance of Western insurance companies, which were seen as the main means of enforcing the price cap on Russian oil intro...
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...