SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Rhod Mackenzie
The plenary session with Vladimir Putin at the St Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on June 20 lasted four hours and covered both economic and international issues. The President has announced a major transformation of the global market, with BRICS assuming an incre...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Since the imposition of sanctions in 2022, Russia has embarked on a major programme of import substitution to reduce its dependency on Western technology and equipment. Let's take a look at how this is progressing in the transportation sector, focusing on trains, planes and autom...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Finnair is an airline once blessed with some unique commerical advantages that squandered them because of petty politics and now it is facing oblivion as the curse of Rusian sanctions continues to consume victims
On Tuesday, June 17, employees of the air transportation industry...
By Rhod Mackenzie
NATO and the Europeans thought about carrying out a pre emptive strike on Kaliningrad at the same time as the Ukraine was going to invade the Donbass but were put off by Russia's success in foiling the Ukraine's attack in February 2022.
I say this Now because back in 2020 there...
By Rhod Mackenzie
It would appear that despite Donald Trumps bluster it is the US that has blinked first in the tariff war with China.
It has been reported that the US and China have have each had to make made concessions in concluding a trade agreement.How ever it is obvious that the US blinked...
