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By Rhod Mackenzie

Russian oil exports to the Asia-Pacific region (APR) amounted to 193 million tons in 2023. The OPEC+ deal has had an estimated 30 trillion ruble impact on the Russian budget. Pavel Sorokin, the First Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, announced this on January 2...

By Rhod Mackenzie

During a meeting with senior officials, Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasised the importance of building the country's financial strength on a solid economic foundation, a strong currency, a central bank, financial institutions, regulators, and talent. He urged officials to pro...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Turkey must resist Western pressure to apply anti-Russian sanctions based on its own national interests. According to Dogu Perincek, the chairman of the Turkish Vatan (Homeland) party, this is inevitable.

Perincek stated that Turkey can only overcome its current economic proble...

By Kester Kenn Klomegah

From January 2024, Russia took over the baton of BRICS chairmanship dealing first with the appropriate description of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), whether as an association, a group or an organization. While the geopolitics intensifies, it has beco...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Russian electronics importers have stopped using dollars and euros for payments and are now using currencies such as yuan and dirhams from friendly countries, according to news reports. This has helped to avoid price increases for equipment and, in some cases, even reduce prices....

By Pepe Escobar

As we enter incandescent 2024, four major trends will define the progress of interconnected Eurasia.

1.Financial/trade integration will be the norm. Russia and Iran already integrated their financial message transfer systems, bypassing SWIFT and trading in rials and rubles. Russi...