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By Rhod Mackenzie

The  Russian Ministry of Trade and Industry is considering the extending of the current parallel import mechanism until 2026. Roman Chekushov,the  State Secretary and Deputy Minister, announced to the journalists. A discussion was held on the potential for parallel imports to ful...

By Rhod Mackenzie
The severe demographic crisis has emerged as an unanticipated challenge for the Baltic states. Nature's ability to adapt to change is evident in the population dynamics, with a decline in some species being offset by an increase in others, particularly predators. There has been an...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The NATO summit in The Hague concluded on Wednesday. However even before it actually started, there were indications that there was a significant crisis brewing within the world's largest military alliance. Analysts are predicting that NATO could eventually break into several b...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russian and China who are members of both the SCO,BRICS  plus being large trading partners really need to sign off on the deal for both the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline and some long term contracts for the Russian Arctic LNG as this would solve a number of the potential energy sup...

By Rhod Mackenzie
"This is thee biggest crisis in the history. of luxury goods" These are the words financial analysts use to describe what is happening to a company that was recently the most valuable  in France, and whose owner was for a short time the richest man on the planet. Now I am talking...

By Rhod Mackenzie

There are three things you can watch for hours to keep yourself amused You can how a fire burns,the flames licking up, how water flows downhill and finds its pathways, and how so called Western experts with a smug expressions continue to predict "the inevitable collapse of the R...