SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russia has punished five Ecuadorian banana suppliers and has started purchasing bananas from India for the first time. Ecuador has been the main importer of bananas to Russia until now. It is unclear why Ecuador held on to its monopoly status for so long and why Russia only now b...
By Mohamed Al-Kazzaz
Vladimir Kazbekov, the vice President and CEO of the New Development Bank (NDB), was in Cairo to launch the bank’s operations in Egypt.
Established in 2015 by the BRICS group of countries consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the NDB is a multilateral...
Over the past year, the BRICS economic alliance has grown notably in its prominence. Indeed, the bloc enacted its first massive expansion since 2001, inviting six nations to join its ranks. Subsequently, amid that expansion, the BRICS alliance is predicted by Goldman Sachs to dominate global GDP by...
The total investable wealth currently held in the BRICS bloc amounts to USD 45 trillion and its millionaire population is expected to rise by 85% over the next 10 years, according to the inaugural BRICS Wealth Report, published by international investment migration advisory firm Henley & Partners in...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Russia and Turkey are preparing for their first leaders' meeting of the year, tentatively scheduled for February 12 in Ankara. The parties will discuss key issues of bilateral cooperation, including the creation of a Turkish-Russian bank to solve payment transfer problems, amidst...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Konstantin Ordov, the Director of the Higher School of Finance at the Russian Economic University, explained to Izvestia on February 5 why the European Commission does not plan to impose new import bans on goods from Russia in the 13th package of anti-Russian sanctions. He stated...
