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By Rhod Mackenzie
Turkey has asked to join the BRICS. The matter will be addressed at the forthcoming meeting of the BRICS Foreign Ministers in Nizhny Novgorod. Turkey has asked to join the BRICS. and what consequences could this lead to?
During his visit to China, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Following his inauguration, Vladimir Putin has already made a number of foreign visits, with the countries he has visited traditionally used to judge the importance of certain areas of Russian foreign policy. The head of state made his first trip to China, where he was greeted wi...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The new Gazprombank's Price Index Centre (PIC) began calculating the Commodity Price Index, an analogue of the Bloomberg Commodity Index, but for Russian goods and based entirely on Russian information. This is another important step towards creating a full-fledged information in...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Some European countries are calling for a complete refusal of Russian energy resources, while others are increasing their purchases. Which countries are we referring to? How can this apparent contradiction be explained? And what other resources from Russia does Europe suddenly re...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Since March 2022, more than one and a half thousand foreign companies have left Russia. The list included major producers of electronics, clothing, furniture and cosmetics. Some stopped all operations, others sold assets to local entrepreneurs for next to nothing. Others took a w...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russia has become the fourth largest economy in the world in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP), a development that occurred at the end of 2021. However, it was not until 2024 that this was identified based on updated data from the World Bank. Why did it take four years to id...
