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Featured October 7, 2025

Russia Using AI to Develop Its Strategic Planning

The Russian Security Council is using a digital strategic planning system, based on its artificial intelligence “AI-Gosplan 2.0,” as part of the implementation of the fundamentals of state policy in strategic planning. AI-Gosplan 2.0 helps plan the distribution of production capacities between industries, identify and eliminate factors that reduce the efficiency of technological chains, and […]

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Featured October 6, 2025

Russia, China & India Credit Rating Trends Vs. United States, European Union & United Kingdom

The global use of credit rating agencies has come under criticism in the past, often with allegations of political bias. The United States, for example, was always held up as a shining beacon of creditworthiness and a guaranteed AAA rating, as were the economies of the European Union and the United Kingdom. As recently as […]

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October 6, 2025

Arkhangelsk Port Development To See Capacity Rise To 1 Million TEU Per Annum

The Arkhangelsk Regional Governor, Alexander Tsybulsky, has announced that Arkhangelsk Port is to develop a deep-water hub modelled on the Chinese ports of Tianjin and Ningbo-Zhoushan, which are world leaders in cargo turnover, digitalization, and robotization. As a result, one of Russia’s oldest ports will become the main gateway to the Northern Sea Route, a […]

October 6, 2025

Eurasian Economic Union Goods Transport To Be Navigation Tracked From February 2026

The Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) board has approved and is to introduce the tracking of goods transported in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) using navigation seals. The decision will enter into force on 1 February 2026, in accordance with the Agreement on the Use of Navigation Seals in the Eurasian Economic Union for Tracking Transported […]

October 5, 2025

Putin’s Valdai Club Q&A: “Introducing The Polycentric World” – Geopolitical Comments and Analysis

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has conducted his annual Q&A session at the Valdai Club, which was themed this year as “The Polycentric World: Instructions for Use.” In it, Putin touches on numerous academic issues to explain the changes global society is going through, why this is happening and the potential for reform and global […]

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October 4, 2025

President Putin’s Valdai Speech: Details & Analysis

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin delivered an insightful speech at the Valdai International Discussion Club on October 2nd with numerous points made about Western and Russian joint development interests, while expressing the hope for reconciliation and cooperation. He touches on European contributions to global society, while pointing out the areas where contemporary attitudes are interfering […]

September 30, 2025

Russia Announces Closed Energy Cycle Nuclear Power Breakthrough

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has announced a global game-changing nuclear power breakthrough, a closed fuel cycle power system to tackle global uranium shortages. This system allows for virtually no nuclear waste. A conventional Nuclear Power Plant uses 0.7% of uranium, leaving 99.3% waste. Russia’s new closed cycle reactor reuses the waste, making uranium fuel […]

September 27, 2025

World Buddhist Forum Kicks Off In Russia’s Kalmykia Republic

The 3rd International Buddhist Forum, with the theme “The Buddhist World in the New Millennium” has begun in Elista, the capital of the Kalmykia Republic in European Russia. The Republic Flag is depicted above. Kalmykia is the only Buddhist region in Europe and was originally populated by descendants of the Mongol tribes and other Central […]

September 24, 2025

Chinese Cargo Ship Arrives In Sevastopol For First Time Since 2014

The Chinese cargo ship Heng Yang 9 – which is registered in Panama – has visited Sevastopol in Crimea, marking the first major foreign vessel to use one of the Crimean ports since 2014, when hostilities with Ukraine first broke out and sanctions were imposed on the territory. While China has not adopted the western […]

September 23, 2025

New Russian Regions Sign Cooperation Agreements With Nicaragua

Cooperation Agreements have been signed by the government of Nicaragua and the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Lugansk People’s Republic, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, and the City of Sevastopol (Crimea), with the ceremony taking place on Monday (September 22). The documents were signed by the heads of the Russian regions and Laureano Ortega, the Special […]

September 22, 2025

New Financial Architecture Is Helping Russian Banks Expand Services Overseas Despite EU’s 19th Sanctions Package

Russia’s largest banks are expanding their services to facilitate direct payments abroad in foreign currencies, with new technologies helping to bypass Western sanctions. This means that Russian businesses will once again be able to freely send dollars, euros, or yuan to any country. Sovcombank has already launched this mechanism, while Sberbank and other Russian banks […]