SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were the six new additions to BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) announced on August 24 during the economic bloc’s landmark 15th summit in Johannesburg, South Africa. With the 2023 summit held under...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russia's GDP increased by 5.1% YoY in Q3 2023, according to the latest monetary policy report released on Tuesday by the country's central bank.
The regulator's estimates indicate that the Russian economy displayed notable growth in both Q2 (4.9%) and Q3, resulting in the centr...
By Chu Daye, Qi Xijia
European companies are still heavily betting on China, and they said that their businesses have truly benefited from China's high-level opening-up. This forms a sharp contrast with some voices that call China's ongoing import fair a "symbolic gesture" when China is holding th...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The global order,focused on the interests of the Anglo-Saxon nations, is progressively collapsing, and this phenomenon is now irreversible. Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, made this statement at a CIS gathering with colleagues in...
By Paul Goncharoff
With all the geopolitical and economic upheavals happening on what seems an accelerated daily basis, often important details get lost in the urgency of other events. Over the past weeks we have seen BRICS steadily growing, and just the Belt & Road forum has shown clear, goal dri...
By Rhod Mackenzie
It has been proposed that twenty-four ships be constructed at Goa Shipyard Ltd, an Indian state-owned shipyard. The ships are intended to operate as part of the " North-South International Transportation Corridor" which goes from Russia to Iran via the Caspian Sea then across tha...
