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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 Gleb Baranov

September has turned out to be the best month of this year for oil prices so far. Last Friday, West Texas WTI, and on Monday, North Sea Brent, broke through the strong resistance levels, then reaching highs not seen since November: $88.08 and $91.15, respectively.

It was difficul...

By Gevorg Mirzayan

The collective West is making efforts to destroy Russia’s relationship with one of the most promising countries on the planet – India. Why exactly are they doing this and why does New Delhi, despite all these attempts and difficulties, support Moscow in its global confrontation...

By Leonid Tsukanov

Saudi Arabia persistently moves quickly into the group of “peacekeeping powers”. For Riyadh, active diplomatic work is an element of the competition for the right to be considered athe heart of the power of the new world order, an attempt to "reset" the country's image and get r...

By Anna Koroleva

The imports of nitrogen fertilizers to Germany from Russia over the past summer increased by a gigantic 334%, reaching about 167 thousand tons. And for the entire year before that, from July 2022 to June 2023, it amounted to only 38.5 thousand tons. These figures were reported by...

By Alexey Poroshin

The choice of six new countries to join the BRICS five is not accidental. Egypt is an old ally of Russia, which has the largest army in Africa. Russia has a long history of cooperation with Ethiopia. It is the largest state on the continent in terms of population: 123 million pe...