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By Rhod Mackenzie

The Russian Ambassador to Not So Great Britain Andrei Kelin, has made a statement that the Sir Wan Kier's  government intends  to forcibly detain any vessels it has sanctioned  that are reansporting carrying Russian oil that they claim are under their sanctionsThe ambassador  sai...

Russia and China are strengthening their partnership. During a meeting in Beijing,the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi discussed joint efforts to counter Western sanctions and the creation of alternative international institutions in the fields of economics...

By Timofey Bordachev

Despite the deepening military-political crisis in relations between Russia and the West, and the uncertain future of Ukraine, Moscow cannot forget about its other neighbours in the former USSR, particularly Central Asia. This region is home to five independent republics that...