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By Pepe Escobar.

It will take ages to unpack the silos of information inbuilt in the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week, coupled with the – armored - train-keeps-a-rollin’ conducted by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un straddling every nook and cranny of Primorsky Krai.
The key themes...

By Rhod Mackenzie

At the VIII Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) held in Vladivostok on 10-13 September, 373 agreements worth 3.8 trillion roubles were signed. The largest were for projects in the Amur region, Trans-Baikal, the Khabarovsk Territory and Primorye. In addition to Russia's friends, there we...

By Timofey Bordachev

The capital of the Russian Far East, Vladivostok, is currently hosting the annual Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) - a major public event and showcase for the country's pivot to the East.

This ambitious policy was adopted by Moscow just over a decade ago, when President Vladimir...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In the first half of 2023,the volume of trade between the Russian Federation and China grew by 40% - previously the countries have not shown such results, said the head of the Institute of Asian and African Studies at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Alexey Maslov, speakin...

By Timofei Bordachev.

The past year and a half may represent a turning point in relations between Russia and Asia. For Moscow, strengthening relations with regional powers and their economies has become not so much a choice as a necessity. The desire of the West to inflict economic and military de...