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By Aaryaman Nijhawan

“A large part of foreign policy today is communication,” Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said as the 9th Raisina Dialogue, an annual conference on geopolitics hosted by New Delhi, came to a close on Saturday. From regional conflicts and disruptive econ...

By Rhod Mackenzie

On the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it is both disheartening and worrying for the global economy to see the West once again ratcheting up sanctions against Russia and even extending them to third countries, rather than reflecting on and ackno...

By Rhod Mackenzie and Bogdan Kolbasuk

Vladimir Putin has signed off on an order authorising the transactions of the shares of the Polymetal company, to which the Russian assets of Polymetal International were previously allocated, as well as the Taseevskoye gold deposit in Transbaikalia, previousl...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In February 2022, Western countries began to introduce an unprecedented package of sanctions against Russia. Over the past two years, it is already possible to summarise some results and assess how and what the restrictions have affected.

GDP grew unexpectedly strongly at the e...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russia's pivot towards the East would not have been possible without modernisation, including the railway infrastructure. The development of the Eastern training ground of Russian Railways has been ongoing for several years, with the third stage expected to commence this year. W...

By Rhod Mackenzie

On February 21, experts interviewed by Izvestia explained that the three largest banks in China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, and Bank of China, have stopped accepting payments from Russian sanctioned financial organizations due to the risk of...