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Featured June 22, 2025

Russia, Iran Hold Talks, As Tehran To Decide On Closing Hormuz: Implications

The Russian President is to hold meetings with the Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi in Moscow to discuss the latest developments as concerns the Israeli and American attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities on Saturday (June 21). There have been disputed accounts over the actual damage caused, with US President Donald Trump declaring “a complete success” […]

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Featured June 21, 2025

Russia, Bahrain to Create Middle East Grain Distribution Hub

Russia and Bahrain are creating a hub for Russian wheat shipments, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday (June 20). He stated that “Together with our friends from Bahrain, we are going to create a whole hub for shipping wheat from Russia. Many Arabic countries are interested in […]

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June 21, 2025

International Commodity & Futures Exchange Combining Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, India, Iran & China Launched

Multiple Eurasian commodity and futures exchanges have signed a declaration on establishing the International Association of Commodity and Futures Exchanges. This new association is intended to become a platform for interaction among commodity and futures exchanges from EAEU+, SCO, and BRICS+ countries. This will enable coordinated policies for developing organized commodity markets. Participants include the […]

June 17, 2025

Russia’s ‘New’ Danone Significantly Increases Production After Russian Takeover, Targets Middle East

Russia’s H&N (Health & Nutrition), which incorporates the former assets of France’s Danone that exited Russia, increased its revenue 21.6% to over ₽140 billion (€1.54 billion) last year, while production grew 20.6% to nearly 950,000 tonnes. Danone, which had operated successfully in Russia for over 30 years, completed its Russian business sale to Vamin R LLC of Tatarstan […]

June 15, 2025

Russia’s Current Relations and Trade With Iran and Israel

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held discussions with both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in the wake of this weekend’s attacks by Israel on Iran and the subsequent Iranian retaliation. It is believed he is the only world leader still able to discuss – and potentially mediate – between […]

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June 12, 2025

Russia and Iran to Collaborate on Co-Produced Films

Russia and Iran are drafting an agreement on cooperation in joint film production, Russian Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova said on Tuesday, saying, “Cinematography is a key area for cooperation.” New Russian and Iranian films are traditionally presented at major festivals, and there is regular exchange of delegations of filmmakers.” She was speaking after meeting with […]

June 10, 2025

Astrakhan Port’s INSTC Integration Into Global Markets: Updates

As part of the recently concluded 16th International Economic Forum “Russia – Islamic World: KazanForum 2025,” a panel discussion was held on the “International North-South Transport Corridor” (INSTC). Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev, the Special Representative of the President for the Development of the INSTC, took part in the discussions. The session also involved Russian Deputy Prime […]

June 10, 2025

The Russia, Iran INSTC Transit Roadmap Through to South Asia: Updates

Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Farzaneh Sadeghi and Russia’s Minister of Transport Roman Starovoit signed an agreement on the development of transport and transit cooperation for 2025. The core element of the agreement, signed in Tehran on February 18, is the completion of the long-delayed Rasht-Astara railway in Iran with Russia’s assistance, according to Iran’s […]

June 7, 2025

Russia, Iran To Collaborate On Satellite Production

Iran’s Ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, and Russia’s Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Bakanov discussed the joint production of satellites at a meeting on Friday (June 6) Iran’s embassy has stated. The embassy said “The two sides exchanged views and discussed the several aspects of space cooperation between Russia and Iran: development of advanced technologies, joint design […]

June 6, 2025

Russia Increases Shipping Container Capacity With India and UAE By 45%

Russia’s FESCO Transport Group has increased the container capacity of the line between India, the UAE and its Novorossiysk Port by 45%, by adding a third container ship to the FESCO Indian Line West (FIL-W) line connecting the ports of India and the UAE with Novorossiysk. German Maslov, Vice President, Line Logistics Division, FESCO, stated […]

June 4, 2025

Russia-UAE Bilateral Trade Booms: Analysis

Over the past six years, the trade turnover between Russia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has grown 2.7 times, from US$3.5 billion in 2019 to US$9.5 billion by the end of 2024, according to Abdullah Ahmed Al Saleh, the Deputy Economic Minister of the UAE. Meanwhile, shipments of goods from the UAE to Russia […]