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By Rhod Mackenzie

Despite the challenging circumstances, Russian mechanical engineering is demonstrating remarkable resilience and adaptability. The industry's decline commenced in spring 2022 amidst mounting geopolitical tensions, but proved to be of short duration. The first growth impulse occur...

By Rhod Mackenzie

From January to May 2024, 1.9 million tons of fertilizers were supplied to the EU from Russia. The European statistical agency attributes this to the fact that the high cost of gas forced EU chemical companies to cease production. What other factors have contributed to the increa...

In the West, many banks, airports and even hospitals suddenly stopped working. This was due to a global outage of the Windows operating system caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. At the same time, the technical problems had virtually no impact on Russia. How did our countr...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Russian LNG sector has been under restrictions for 10 years now, and the situation is only getting more dramatic. Lets assess the successes of Russian companies in overcoming Western sanctions and what are the key tasks identified  without which the development of the industr...

In 2022 The US government and those of the other members of the G7 imposed sanctions on Russia since then they have increased the number of them 14 times and they amount to around 20 thousand people,companies and entities across all of Russia and in all sorts of sectors.They also urged their compani...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In light of the West's refusal to buy Russian oil, other buyers are showing a huge interest in it and are buying it vast quantities.plus most of them are really making serious amounts of money out of it and if fact the only people who are not making money out of it are the Euro...