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Updated September 30, 2025
Featured July 15, 2025

Russia, India, Bilateral Relations: July 2025 Update  

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, met with the Indian Foreign Minister  Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Foreign Ministers’ meetings in Tianjin, China. The two foreign ministers engaged in a comprehensive discussion on pivotal bilateral and international issues, as well as the forthcoming schedule of diplomatic engagements. They reiterated their […]

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July 14, 2025

Russia To Begin Trading Gold On St. Petersburg Exchange

Russia, the world’s second-largest gold producer, is to free itself from the current dependence of gold prices on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and plans to launch gold trading on the St. Petersburg Exchange (SPIMEX) by the end of the year. One of the main objectives of the exchange when launching a new market is […]

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July 14, 2025

Russia To Provide BRICS, SCO, & EAEU Members With Satellite Data For Farmland Management   

Data from remote sensing satellites for monitoring farmlands will be available to Russia’s BRICS partners, as well as to the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Russian Space Systems said on Thursday (July 10). They stated that “Data from the domestic orbital constellation of remote sensing satellites […]

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July 14, 2025

Russian, Chinese Foreign Ministers Meet In Beijing  

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing yesterday (July 13) to discuss closer cooperation and global challenges. Lavrov had earlier been in North Korea. The talks came ahead of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ Council session in Tianjin. Both ministers expressed satisfaction with the progress […]

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July 13, 2025

Russia, Pakistan Bilateral Relations: July 2025 Update  

Update: July 15, 2025 Pakistan’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Ishaq Dar has also met the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Foreign Minister’s meetings taking place in Tianjin, China. Both countries are full members of the SCO and will be discussing regional security amongst other matters. Full update here. The Russian Foreign […]

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July 6, 2025

Russia, CSTO Annual Foreign Ministerial Meetings: 2025 Security Developments  

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov; has been attending the annual Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) meetings, held this year in Kyrgyzstan. The CSTO is often described as a ‘Eurasian version of NATO’ and includes Russia along with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Armenia is also a member but has not recently been participating. Afghanistan […]

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June 28, 2025

Planning Ahead: Russia & China Prepare Joint Energy Strategy to 2050

Russia’s Energy Minister, Sergei Tsivilev, has met with Wang Hongzhi, the head of China’s National Energy Administration, at a meeting for energy ministers from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states and discussed current issues around bilateral collaboration in fuel and energy as well as promoting fair energy access throughout the world. Tsivilev and Wang discussed LNG […]

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June 24, 2025

FESCO Plans To Set Up Transport and Logistics Hubs in China and India For SCO Trade Development

Russia’s FESCO Transport Group intends to set up transport and logistics hubs in China and India, according to FESCO’s Vice President for Finance, Leonid Zvyagintsev. The hubs will be used to transport goods both within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) countries and to Africa. Zvyagintsev said that FESCO has initiated the transition to digital veterinary […]

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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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