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By Rhod Mackenzie

The interview by the American journalist Tucker Carlson with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov which millions of people around the world have already watched, represents a key turning point in the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine and in Russia's future relations with...

The BRICS partner countries will officially assume this status on 1 January 2025, according to confirmation from the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Andrei Rudenko,. According to him the total number listed is thirteen.
Lets look first at  Asia in addition to Thailand, Malaysia a...

Now everybody is awar that the majority of politicians have no knowledge or understanding of two major subjects which are science and economics. On science if they had any understanding the world would not have suffered from the farce of Covid 19 and economics they would not be trying to promote the...

Prior to even taking up residence in the White House, Donald Trump the new-old US president has made  the statement that is tantamount to  declare a currency and trade war with the countries who are members of the BRICS countries. I know Trump is used to making outlandish and outragious statement bu...

A new report by the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) which acts as a sort of informal OPEC for natural gas indicates that global gas consumption in 2024 may grow by 2.3%. The exporters forum is made up by the major Gas exporters including Russia and Qatar but interestingly not the USA.
Now Over...

A recent report by the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (CMASF), has agreed with the earlier assessment of the Internationanl Monertary Fund  from September that predicted  the industrial production growth in Russia would be at least 3.5% by the end of 2024.

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