SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Rhod Mackenzie
In another of his moments of bombast Donald Trump has threatened to punish buyers of Russian energy resources with 100% trade tariffs if the situation in Ukraine is not resolved to his liking and satisfaction within the next 50 days. The first countries likely to be hit are China...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Brazil was the last of the BRICS founding member countries to full embrace trading using national currencies. Overall, these payments already account for around 90 per cent of transactions within the international association. So what is mainly bought with one's own cuurencies...
By Rhod Mackenzie
It has become obvious that the special forces of a certain Western government are active in the sabotage of merchant vessels that transport goods such as oil and chemicals to and from Russia.
Ovr the past year there has been a series of mysterious incidents involving merchant shi...
By Rhod Mackenzie
For a long time,certainly since the Second World War the West once accustomed to dictating the rules, is now frantically clinging to the remnants of its former power by its fingernails. However, the era of its dominance is quickly not slowly slipping away. The multipolar world is...
By Rhod Mackenzie
A recent report issued by Kirill Dmitriev, the special representative of the Russian president for economic cooperation with foreign countries and head of the RDIF, stated that the total volume of trade between BRICS members recently surpassed $1 trillion. This milestone signifie...
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...
