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By Vali Kaleji

The banking and financial relations between Iran and Russia have developed significantly in recent years under the influence of several factors, which is unprecedented in the history of relations between the two countries, Vali Kaleji writes.

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By Rhod Mackenzie

For the first two decades of the 21st century, Germany was in its economic ascendency. Its economy boomed,it was one success after another. It gained dominace in world markets in areas such as high-tech,luxury cars and precision engineering and sold so much of its output that i...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Yet another country has come out to join the growing number of countries looking to use their national currencies in cross border trade in an attempt to avoid using the dollar due to its dominance in the global financial system. It is also very significant and conspicuous that In...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Trade turnover between Russia and China in January-August this year increased by 25%, the Federal Customs Service (FCS) of Russia reported in its telegram channel following the results of the 15th meeting of the Subcommittee on Customs Cooperation of the Russian-Chinese Commissio...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo presented a plan to abandon Russian gems to the world's leading diamond industry representatives in New York on Tuesday, writes the Belgian publication Soir.
"Alexander de Croo proposed to the elite of the jewellery industry gathered...

By Pepe Escobar.

It will take ages to unpack the silos of information inbuilt in the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok last week, coupled with the – armored - train-keeps-a-rollin’ conducted by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un straddling every nook and cranny of Primorsky Krai.
The key themes...