SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Rhod Mackenzie
The US president Joe Biden hopes to meet the presidents of the Central Asian states on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on either 19 or 20 September. This will be the first time that negotiations have been held at the level of heads of state, as opposed to foreign ministe...
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Russian billionaires have withdrawn tens of billions of dollars of assets from Europe since the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, under the influence of international sanctions and the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
China's resale to Europe of some of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplied by Gazprom's Portovaya liquefaction complex is quite possible if EU countries face a cold winter, Igbal Guliyev, deputy director of the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO, to...
By Rhod Mackenzie
A number of leading oil companies in India are considering the possibility of using revenues from assets in Russia totalling $600 million to buy oil from the Russian Federation because of difficulties in repatriating dividends, The Economic Times newspaper reported, citing offici...
By Rhod Mackenzie
There are no problematic issues in the negotiation process on the gas hub project in Turkey with the Russian side, at this stage Ankara is only studying the market, the parties are aiming at active work, a source in the Turkish energy sector involved in the development of the pro...
By Rhod Mackenzie
China's post-pandemic recovery will lead to a sharp rise in oil demand in the coming months, the IEA predicts. Until now, Western analysis has been dominated by scepticism about the prospects for the Chinese economy. Oil prices responded to the agency's report with growth. This w...
