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Updated September 27, 2025
Featured January 5, 2025

Russia’s Foreign Trade: 2024 Changes and 2025 Trends

2024 was marked by distinct changes in Russia’s foreign trade turnover, as sanctions and geopolitical instability forced the Russian economy to adapt to a new normal. Despite these challenges, exports grew by 0.5% to reach US$278 billion in value, while the focus of attention of Russian suppliers was Asia, Africa and the CIS countries. It […]

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January 2, 2025

How Foreigners Can Pay For Goods & Services In Russia

The suspension of Russian banks from SWIFT, and sanctions resulting in Amex, Visa and Mastercard withdrawal from providing services in Russia have made it difficult for foreign visitors to access their own money while in Russia. It has also made it difficult to remit money to Russia for payment of goods or services, or for […]

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January 2, 2025

Belgium’s Anheuser-Busch InBev and Turkiye’s Anadolu Efes Lose Total Equity On Russian InBev Beer Takeover

Decision is almost certainly due to Euroclear diverting profits from frozen Russian capital to Ukraine Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev and Turkey’s Anadolu Efes have lost, in the case of the latter, perhaps temporarily, in their attempts to strike a deal for the assets of Russian joint venture Anheuser-Busch Inbev Efes. On Monday, January 1, Russian […]

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December 31, 2024

Russia’s Development Readiness For National Autonomous Transport Networks

Russia ranks third in its readiness to implement Autonomous Transport (AT) systems among the BRICS, CIS and partner countries, second only to China and the United Arab Emirates and ahead of countries such as Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Turkiye, according to the latest Kept (ex-KPMG) ratings. For the assessment, Kept’s analysts compared countries with each […]

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December 30, 2024

Russia’s 2024 Rice Harvest Up 17% To Reach A Record High

The Russian Ministry of Agriculture has stated that Russia has produced a record rice harvest this year, amounting to more than 1.2 million tons. This is 17% higher than for 2023. According to the Ministry, Russia now has 207,000 hectares of rice under production. Almost two-thirds of that is from Krasnodar, where the harvest amounted […]

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December 20, 2024

President Putin’s Annual Q&A: The Economy and BRICS: Analysis

The Russian President, Vladimir Putin gave his annual public Q&A address yesterday, with him fielding questions from across Russia, including the general public and journalists. 2.2 million questions were received, ranging from the situation in Ukraine, which tended to dominate, to personal issues such as ‘What do you dream about?’ And what artworks he has […]

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December 18, 2024

Russia – Japan Total Trade Down, But Russian Exports To Japan Up

The practical difficulties of imposing sanctions upon Russia on an economy are adequately shown in Russia’s 2024 bilateral trade data with Japan, which has declined by 15.9% during 2024. However, a closer look at the data reveals that the trade damage inflicted has been on Japanese products – its exports to Russia were down 22.2%, […]

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