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By Rhod Mackenzie

Since the imposition of sanctions in 2022, Russia has embarked on a major programme of import substitution to reduce its dependency on Western technology and equipment. Let's take a look at how this is progressing in the transportation sector, focusing on trains, planes and autom...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Finnair is an airline once blessed with some unique commerical advantages that squandered them because of petty politics and now it is facing oblivion as the curse of Rusian sanctions continues to consume victims
On Tuesday, June 17, employees of the air transportation industry...

By Rhod Mackenzie

It would appear that despite Donald Trumps bluster it is the US that has blinked first in the tariff war with China.
It has been reported that the US and China have have each had to make made concessions in concluding a trade agreement.How ever it is obvious that the US blinked...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In the current business environment in Russia obtaining a university degree or diploma no longer necessarily guarantees success. In Russia, the younger generation are increasingly opting for manual trades blue-collar employment opportunities . In today's market, trade professi...

By Rhod Mackenzie
The Western establishment has been compelled to acknowledge the accuracy of the analyts predictions regarding the looming crisis in energy in Europe and particularly the UK and failure of their energy policies .
The energy crisis has had a significant impact on the regions econom...

By Rhod Mackenzie

I will never understand the logic or the thinking of the EU It seems that the EU thinks that if your package of sanctions is a complete failure then just put together another package which is where we are at now after three years and almost 20 packages of sanctions.
The European...