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The quarter’s index distinctive feature: emerging-company resilience gap vs Western peers in steel, autos and finance.
Today Moscow is the leader among Russian regions in terms of trade turnover with Arab states. Despite the difficult geopolitical situation, cooperation continues to increase—in four months of 2026, manufacturing exports to the region increased fivefold. About this with…
🌴 The creation of a new financial center in the Far East will be one of the key topics of discussion at EEF-2026. At the last forum, Vladimir Putin instructed the government, together with the Bank of Russia, to prepare proposals for the creation of a financial center in the Far East on the basis of the East...
⚡️The Russian Industrial Zone (RIZ) project in Egypt is entering the stage of practical implementation. The Crystal Growth Foundation has been appointed as the project operator. This is a single “window” for investors, developers and residents at the Ain Sokhna port site. 📌 The goal of the project is to increase exports of high...
🇰🇬 You know that Kyrgyzstan is becoming one of the popular destinations for Russian business. But the main question is: how to build logistics and make payments without failures? ⏱ On July 23 at 10:00 (Moscow time) at the REC webinar we will analyze practical solutions that are already working today. What will we discuss...
🫶 Roman Chekushov: RFRP of the Kursk region will be additionally capitalized in 2027 by 495 million rubles. State Secretary, Deputy Minister made a working trip to the region, where: - met with the regional governor Alexander Khinshtein; — took part in the launch of a new production...
🚤 At SPIEF 2026, the Kyrgyz Republic presented its national stand for the first time. 🌟 A new stage of cooperation will continue at the VIII Kyrgyz-Russian Economic Forum in the village of Bosteri (Issyk-Kul) with the support of the Roscongress Foundation. The center of the business program is the SPIEF visiting session...
💟 Women's entrepreneurship is the most important value for export. The Federation Council hosted an award ceremony for the winners of the IV All-Russian competition “Support Leaders. Women in Export”, which was attended by the Senior Vice President of the REC, General Director of the Russian...
Vladimir Putin approved the list of instructions based on the results of SPIEF-2026. Among the main provisions of the document is a set of measures aimed at: 🔹increasing labor productivity and economic efficiency; 🔹improving the investment climate; 🔹implementation of domestic technological...
🏆The Federation Council awarded the best masters of folk art crafts. The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, Anton Alikhanov, took part in the solemn ceremony of presenting the first National Prize in the field of folk art. 🏅 The awards were given to masters who preserve and develop traditions…
With more than 300 applications from all over the country, the scale of the first National Prize for craftsmen is impressive. 🏆The highest award in this industry was presented today in Moscow, and the Roscongress Foundation added a twist: a special prize - for a tourist route to the places where these crafts are born...
👑 Folk arts and crafts already form an integral part of the creative economy. At the end of last year, the industry’s growth amounted to more than 9%, said Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko at the awards ceremony for the laureates of the 1st National...
🌴 You can get acquainted with the process of mining brucite and graphite, try on traditional costumes of different nationalities and paint souvenirs at a master class in the pavilion of the Jewish Autonomous Region on Far East Street as part of the EEF. Guests will be presented with industry enterprises, in…
🇧🇷 Brazil is not only about coffee, football and carnival. Although you can start with this. But if you look at the country through the eyes of an exporter, the picture is completely different: a huge market, high demand and... a long list of issues. ❓ How to find a partner you can trust? What you need...
Shanghai has surpassed London in the ranking of world shipping centers 🇨🇳🚢 At the end of 2025, Shanghai rose to second place for the first time in the International Shipping Centers Development Index (Xinhua‑Baltic ISCDI, report in English), which is jointly compiled by the China Economy Service…
The Russian-Arab Forum, which will take place in early October, will become a new platform for economic cooperation between Russia and Arab states. Its preparation was discussed at a meeting between Advisor to the President of Russia Anton Kobyakov and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Bahrain to the Russian Federation A...
The architecture of the EEF 2026 business program has been published. There are five thematic tracks in total: 🔹 “Live and work in the Far East”; 🔹 “Mechanisms for attracting private investment”; 🔹 “The Far East is a pole of international interaction”; 🔹“Technologies of the present and future”; 🔹 “Logis...
Latin America, together with the Caribbean countries, can be perceived as a single macro-region with a population of over 650 million people and $15.3 trillion in GDP in 2024 (according to the World Bank). However, it is rather a patchwork quilt, both politically and e...
Despite sanctions pressure and foreign policy turbulence, Russia continues to systematically restructure the economy. 🌟 This was stated by the President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin at the IV visiting session of the Verona Eurasian Economic Forum. He also emphasized that the national…
Militarization has penetrated metallurgy in Europe - one of the most clumsy and inertial industries with a planning horizon of 20–30 years. New finishing complexes are being deployed at key enterprises. This makes Europe's current military course fundamental...
♦️ SBER is expanding cooperation with China, developing new areas of financial and technological partnership 🔷 RKDS member Sberbank (PJSC) continues to strengthen cooperation with Chinese partners, expanding interaction in the field of finance, digital technologies, artificial...
The participating countries of Innoprom-2026 demonstrate their industrial potential at the exhibition. Mikhail Mishustin and the heads of delegations examined the stands of partner states that brought new products from their industrial enterprises to Yekaterinburg. 🇮🇩Indonesia’s stand is presented in the form of a traditional…
🫶 Anton Alikhanov: Our task is to resolve issues with engines and avionics At INNOPROM-2026, the head of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade spoke at the session “Wings of Small Aviation: Development Prospects,” where he spoke about the key areas for the development of domestic small aviation. The main thing: ▶️In 2026–2...
🫶Anton Alikhanov took part in a meeting of the EAEU Industrial Policy Council at INNOPROM-2026. At the event, they discussed the progress of the implementation of the mechanism for providing financial assistance to industrial cooperation in the EAEU and agreed to continue cooperation in this area. “Ro...
🫶 Applications for subsidies for 2027 for Export Support Centers and regional export programs are now open Subsidies are intended to co-finance costs arising from the implementation of regional export projects with the participation of Export Support Centers, and…
Mikhail Mishustin held a strategic session on increasing labor productivity 💬When launching new projects, you need not only finance and equipment, but also employees. Moreover, taking into account the emphasis on achieving technological leadership - first of all, those who have a good image...
📢 The Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade has opened the first acceptance of applications for subsidies for Export Support Centers and regional export programs. From June 29, constituent entities of the Russian Federation can submit applications for federal subsidies to co-finance regional export projects...
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⚡️INNOPROM-2026: how “Dialogue with the Trade Representative” helps Russian businesses enter new markets The business program of the special platform “Dialogue with the Trade Representative”, which will run from July 6 to 8 as part of the International Industrial Exhibition INNOP, is already available on the official website...
🇨🇳🤝🇷🇺On June 15-16, 2026, a business mission of a number of leading Russian companies to the city of Taiyuan (Shanxi Province) took place. The event was organized by the Trade Mission and held in the format of a Russian-Chinese conference dedicated to interaction in the field of industrial and…
♦️ Novikombank is strengthening its support for industrial projects in the Far East - a key area of cooperation with China 🔷 A member of the RKDS, JSCB Novikombank (JSC) in June 2026 entered into an agreement with the Development Corporation of the Far East and Arctic on the sidelines of SPIEF-2026. ▪️ Document pr…
️Registration for the “Dialogue with the Trade Representative” platform within the framework of INNOPROM-2026 is open ⚡️From July 6 to 8, the International Industrial Exhibition INNOPROM-2026 will host the “Dialogue with the Trade Representative” platform - a space for personal communication between Russian companies and trade representatives of Russia...
⚡️ Rostec and Chinese investors are creating the first Russian-Chinese hydrogen transport corridor for cargo transportation ♦️ RKDS member Rostec (GC) in 2026 signed a memorandum with a consortium of Chinese investors on the implementation of the first cross-border hydrogen freight corridor...
🇷🇺🇨🇳Since May 17, the anniversary X Russian-Chinese EXPO has been taking place in the city of Harbin, the administrative center of Heilongjiang Province, which ends its work today. According to the organizers, the total exhibition area was 12 thousand square meters. m, and its Russian part –...
🇨🇳 On April 21, at the Russian Trade Mission in China, a meeting was held with the delegation of Gansu Province led by Deng Hua, Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Information Technology of the regional government. As part of the Chinese delegation, the event was attended by…
🇷🇺🇨🇳 The Trade Representation invites Russian companies to take part in a business mission to Shanxi Province On April 15, 2026, in the administrative center of Shanxi Province, the city of Taiyuan, a working meeting of representatives of the Russian Trade Representation in China with the management…
🇨🇳 The State Council of the People's Republic of China approved the Master Plan for the creation of the Chinese (Inner Mongolia) Experimental Free Trade Zone (EFTA). The document talks about the formation of a new institutional and logistics circuit in the northern direction, focused on cross-border...
🌲 Ilim and China: 30 years of partnership and new horizons On April 3, 2026, a gala reception was held in Manchuria dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Ilim Group in the Chinese market. The event was held with the support of the city administration and brought together key representatives of business and…
🇷🇺🇨🇳 March 25–27 this year. A joint delegation of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Trade Representative Office and industry organizations held a series of working meetings at China’s largest semiconductor industry exhibition – SEMICON China 2026. The delegates presented catalogs of domestic…
📈 Development zones in China The high dynamics of China’s economic growth is largely due to the large-scale use of development zones (开发区) - territories with special tax, customs and administrative regimes, which have become an effective instrument of economic policy...
🇨🇳📦 The first pre-customs clearance warehouse for cross-border e-commerce was launched in China. On March 2, a pilot logistics center implementing a fundamentally new model of logistics was officially put into operation in the Lingang district of Weihai City (Shandong Province).…
The Foreign Trade Center has expanded the geography of inspections of counterparties 🌏 Now the Center provides services for checking counterparties from Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil, Peru and Ecuador, which have been added to China and India. ❗️The service is provided free of charge for Russian importing companies...
🇷🇺🇨🇳Andrei Nikitin visited the People's Republic of China on a working visit. In Beijing, the head of the Russian Ministry of Transport held negotiations with the Minister of Transport of the People's Republic of China Liu Wei. “We see great potential in synchronizing our approaches with partners from China in the field of transport development. Exchange…
🏮The Russian Trade Mission in China presents a new section “Notes on Chinese business culture.” In the interiors of Chinese offices and commercial enterprises, an image of a bearded man with a red face is often found. This is Guan Yu (Guan Gong, Guan Di) - the famous commander of the era...
🇨🇳💄Current trends in the Chinese cosmetics market 🔺 General dynamics Between 2020 and 2025, retail sales of cosmetic products in China increased from 410.1 to 465.9 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of about 2.6%. By the end of 2026, it is expected to reach the level...