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Featured March 1, 2025

Rosatom Wins Contract To Enrich Brazilian Uranium

Russia’s nuclear energy state corporation, Rosatom, has won a Brazilian tender to provide conversion and enrichment services for domestically produced uranium, according to the companies press service, which stated the contract signed by Rosatom with the Brazilian state company Industrias Nucleares do Brasil (INB) is “worth around US$40 million.” It is expected that Brazilian uranium […]

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Featured February 28, 2025

Russia-China Security Talks In Beijing: US Mineral Plans In Ukraine, the Arctic and SCO 2025 Summit

Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu, and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi have held talks in Beijing, with Shoigu also meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two sides discussed bilateral issues as concerns global and Asian security, in addition to global and regional conflicts and geopolitics. Ukraine Sticking Points These have come following Russian […]

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February 26, 2025

Iran – EAEU Free Trade Agreement To Remove Tariffs On 87% On All Products Traded With Russia

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov has been in Tehran holding talks with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, as well as with the Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian. Much of these discussions revolve around resolving bottlenecks at the Rasht-Astara railway route, which is part of the INSTC network between Russia and the Middle East. Construction work […]

February 26, 2025

Chinese Specialists To Invest In Maritime Ship Engines & Assembly In The Russian Far East

The Primorsky Krai regional Government in Russia’s Far East has said that the local JSC Nakhodka Ship Repair Plant (NSRY) plans to assemble Chinese ship engines at its facilities. Cooperation in shipbuilding was discussed at a meeting between various managers of numerous industrial enterprises from Primorye and China on Tuesday (February 25) in Vladivostok. Anatoly […]

February 25, 2025

Russia-China Bilateral Cross-Border Rail Freight Up 9% YoY in January 2025

Rail cargo transportation in both directions between Russia and China increased by 9.1% compared to January 2024, to 3.5 million tonnes, Russian Railways has stated. 3.3 million tonnes were Russian exports, an increase of 8.9%. 1.7 million tonnes of cargo were exported to China through the Zabaikalsk – Manchuria railway border crossing, between Zabaykalsky Krai […]

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February 25, 2025

Russia Increases Far East State Development PPP Budgets

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree increasing funding for projects aimed at developing economic growth centres in the Russian Far East by another ₽32 billion (US$360 million). The total amount available in the state budget is now ₽73.3 billion (US$830 million). Mishustin said “This will ensure federal co-financing for projects implemented under […]

February 24, 2025

Russia-Myanmar 2025 Trade & Investment: Update

Maxim Reshetnikov, the Russian Economic Development Minister and Kan Zaw, Myanmar’s Investment and Foreign Economic Relations Minister have signed a memorandum on investment cooperation in Myanmar’s Dawei Special Economic Zone. The document was signed at the fifth intergovernmental Russian-Myanmar commission for commercial and economic cooperation during the Russian delegation’s official visit to Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital […]

February 24, 2025

Russia-Pakistan Direct Rail Freight Service To Begin In March

Freight rail transportation between Russia and Pakistan is scheduled to begin from March 2025, according to the Russian Ministry of Transport. The announcement was made following the results of the Third Caspian Economic Forum in Tehran, during which Russia and Iran signed a Practical Action Plan for cooperation in the transport sector for 2025. This […]

February 24, 2025

Russia’s FESCO Adds Vladivostok Shipping Capacity To South Korea’s Gwangyang Port

Russia’s FESCO Transport has begun regular ship calls from Vladivostok to South Korea’s Gwangyang port as part of the expansion of the FESCO Korea Soviet Direct Line (KSDL) route. The cargo flow to Gwangyang is mainly Russian timber industry products, which are delivered to various industries in the country. The main KSDL route connects Vladivostok […]

February 24, 2025

The Russia – United States Talks: The Next Steps Before The Putin-Trump Summit

Moscow and Washington are to conduct talks initially addressing irritants to their bilateral relations at the end of the next week, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov has stated. The discussions are to iron out and talk through problematic differences between the two sides and will involve “political directors” – presumably meaning political policy decision […]

February 23, 2025

New Russia-Thailand Shipping Route Connects Novorossiysk With Bangkok

A new logistics line for commercial transportation, dubbed the “Thai Express” will connect Russia’s Novorossiysk Port to Bangkok. It has been created by A7 Holdings and Novostal-M, with the first ships of the Thai Express to commence service from July this year. Delivery will take at least 30 days. In addition, the cargo turnover from […]