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Featured October 15, 2024

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Prime Ministers Council Meeting Begins In Pakistan

The Meeting of Council of Prime Ministers of SCO Member States has begun in Pakistan, with Russia represented by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The SCO includes full members Belarus, China, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Dialogue partners include Afghanistan and Mongolia, while Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cambodia, Egypt, Kuwait, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, […]

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Featured October 11, 2024

Russia To Award Icebreaker Ship Building Contracts To India

Indian media is reporting that two of the country’s shipyards will work on building four non-nuclear icebreaking ships for Rosatom, with the likely contact set to go to Gujarat shipyards – Indian Prime Minister Modi’s home region. New Delhi is already considering one state-owned and one private shipbuilder for the plan, while reports state that […]

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October 7, 2024

Russia – Abkhazia 2024 Bilateral & Geopolitical Relations: Update

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has held bilateral meetings with Sergey Shamba, the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia. Abkhazia is a semi-recognised independent country that was formed in 1993. It had previously been a province of neighbouring Georgia, however following mass civil unrest and Georgian military action against ethnic Abkhazians, Russian troops were […]

October 4, 2024

Russia Proposes “BRICS Starlink” To Friendly Countries

Russia has stated that countries that maintain friendly relations with Moscow are interested in using Russia’s low-orbit satellite constellation to have Internet access as an alternative to Elon Musk’s Starlink network, according to Russia’s Digital Development Minister, Maksut Shadayev. Russia’s OJSC Bureau 1440 is currently building a low-orbit satellite constellation, involving 292 spacecraft to provide […]

October 3, 2024

Europe’s Supply Chain Crisis Deepens As Russia & Asia Steam Ahead

It’s interesting – even laughable – to note how the Western media describe problems in the West as ‘Global’ issues, whereas in fact they are often referring to matters related solely to the United States and Europe. It begs the question of how realistic their knowledge of how the global trade and geopolitical system now […]

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October 3, 2024

New Far East Container Port At Posyet To Service The Primorsky International Transport Corridor

A new terminal for transhipment of various cargoes, including containers and grain, will be built in the port of Posyet in Primorsky Krai. Russia’s VTB bank are to finance the project, with a total investment of about ₽10 billion (US$106 million). The corresponding agreement was signed during the recent Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. VTB […]

October 2, 2024

Uzbekistan To Join Eurasian Development Bank In Boost To EAEU

Uzbekistan is completing the procedure to join the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov said at a meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council in Yerevan. The EDB is an international development bank with charter capital of US$7 billion. Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan are the bank’s shareholders. Uzbekistan’s decision to participate […]

October 2, 2024

Container Ship Traverses St. Petersburg – Shanghai Via Northern Sea Route In Record Time

The Panamax container ship Flying Fish 1 has just completed its journey along the Northern Sea Route, navigating its way from St. Petersburg to Shanghai in 21 days at an average speed of 16 knots or about 30 kilometers per hour. What makes this voyage significant for the global shipping world and supply chain logistics […]

October 2, 2024

Russia, China Discuss Mineral Drilling Project In Antarctica

It doesn’t get much further into the Global South than Antarctica, and Russia and China are in talks over joint drilling of the Gamburtsev Mountain Range in the middle of the continent, the Russian Federal Agency for Mineral Resources (Rosnedra) has stated. Last month, the Chinese cities of Beijing and Changchun hosted international conferences on […]

October 2, 2024

Proposed New Kazakh-Russia-Mongolia Highway Would Connect Astana With Ulaan Baatar

Kazakhstan and Mongolia plan to build a new highway between the two countries through Russia, pending approval from the Russian authorities, according to the Kazakh Transport Ministry. The route will connect the Kazakh cities of Ust-Kamenogorsk and Ridder, as well as Tuekta in Russia’s Altai Republic, leading to the Mongolian border at Khyagt and the […]

September 30, 2024

Russia – Syria 2024 Bilateral Relations: Update

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been in New York attending the annual UN General Assembly. During the UN events, several other bilateral meetings were held as numerous countries wish to discuss current affairs with Moscow. Lavrov subsequently met with Bassam al-Sabbagh, Syria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. In the course of the meeting, they had […]