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Russia offers SWIFT alternative for dollarless trade with India

  • 1 Apr 10:38

Russia offers SWIFT alternative for dollarless trade with India The Indian government is reportedly considering Moscow’s proposal to turn to the Russian payment system, which allows direct rupee-ruble transfers in bilateral trade. The mechanism developed by the Russian central bank is expected to boost commerce between the two countries by avoiding dollar-denominated trade, and allow the world’s third biggest oil consumer to continue purchases from Russia, bypassing Western sanctions. The scheme involves rupee-ruble-denominated payments via Russia’s messaging system, SPFS. The final decision is expected to come after a two-day visit of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to India, according to unnamed people. Read more...

Sergey Dankvert on supply of veterinary medicines to livestock farmers

  • 1 Apr 10:36

In the course of the “Open Dialogue” at Federation Council held on March 28, the Head of Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert said that 56,5% of veterinary medicines sold in Russia are imported, while the share of domestic products for veterinary use is 45,5 %. Photo by Aleksandr Plonskii /V&L The Head of Rosselkhoznadzor stressed that there are domestic substitutes for almost all foreign-made immunobiological drugs. “We have enough vaccines to substitute the foreign ones,” said Sergey Dankvert. He also told the senators how foreign drugs hit the Russian market. “When livestock and poultry farming started developing in Russia. Read more...

Agriculture will not be set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

  • 31 Mar 10:07

Agriculture will not be set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Russian Cabinet Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a government decree establishing the rules for assessing the achievement of targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to the Federal Law "On Limiting Greenhouse Gas Emissions", targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions will be set for the entire Russian economy, as well as for individual industries. The adopted resolution approves the list of industries for which these indicators will be established, as well as the procedure for their assessment. The numerical values ​​of the indicators will be calculated and set additionally. “It is important that the business community was. Read more...

Russian scientists bred the first Russian breed of quail

  • 31 Mar 10:05

Russian scientists bred the first Russian breed of quail Omsk scientists have created a new breed of meat and egg quail - Omsk. This is the first domestic quail cross in the post-Soviet space. Breeders from Siberia have something to be proud of. The last breed of quail in the Soviet Union was bred in Estonia back in the seventies. For several decades, Russian farmers have been forced to buy breeding products abroad, in fact subsidizing the development of breeding poultry farming in other countries. Specialists of the Siberian Research Institute of Poultry Farming have been working on the creation of their own cross for more than ten years. Scientists managed to obtain a unique genotype included in the state. Read more...

Results of 2021: Russian agricultural exports grew by 21%

  • 31 Mar 10:02

Results of 2021: Russian agricultural exports grew by 21% In 2021, Russian exports of agricultural products amounted to USD 37.1 billion, which is 21% more than in 2020. Thus, agricultural exports have updated the record reached in 2020. During the year, Russia supplied more than 71 million tons of food and agricultural raw materials to foreign markets. Growth was demonstrated by all major groups of food products. The value of exports of grain industry products increased by 12%, oil and fat industry - by 48%, fish and seafood - by 25%, meat products - by 32%, dairy - by 30%, food and processing industry products - by 15%, other products - by 12%. Last year, more than 160 countries became importers of agricultural products. Read more...

All Russian exports could soon be in rubles

  • 31 Mar 09:55

All Russian exports could soon be in rubles Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov indicated on Wednesday that all of the nation's energy and commodity exports could be priced in rubles. Moscow has already demanded that gas exports to hostile countries should be paid for in the Russian currency. Peskov was asked about the comments by parliament speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, who earlier in the day called for pricing all of Russian commodity exports in domestic currency. “This is an idea that should definitely be worked on,”the Kremlin spokesman said. According to Peskov, the US dollar’s role as a global reserve currency had already taken a hit and a move to pricing Russia’s biggest exports. Read more...

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  • 30 Mar 10:52

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Iran ready to buy grain and meat from Russia

  • 30 Mar 10:42

Iran ready to buy grain and meat from Russia Iran is ready to buy grain and meat from Russia, as well as cooperate in other areas, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic to Russia Kazem Jalali told reporters on Thursday. “There are very good technological opportunities in Russia. Russia has a long history in this matter. Iran also has very good opportunities in this area. So, our countries are interacting on various issues and in various areas. We are ready to buy grain, meat, and negotiations are also underway on this topic at the highest level, so that all this can be purchased in Russia, ”he said. Jalali believes that relations between Iran and Russia will develop. Read more...

Mongolia expands list of Russian pork suppliers

  • 30 Mar 10:41

Mongolia expands list of Russian pork suppliers Rosselkhoznadzor reported that three more Russian enterprises have received the right to export pig products to Mongolia. “Rosselkhoznadzor informs that the competent authority of Mongolia, under the guarantees of the service, has decided to expand the list of enterprises approved by the Russian Federation for the export of pig products to Mongolia. Three Russian meat processing companies have received the right of access,” the ministry said in a statement. Representatives of the service specified that in total, the competent authority of Mongolia has currently approved 34 Russian enterprises for the production of products obtained from the slaughter. Read more...

Russia: Key Retail Trends in 2022

  • 30 Mar 10:40

Russia: Key Retail Trends in 2022 Trade is one of the most ancient forms of human activity, and although its form is constantly undergoing changes, three main components remain unchanged—namely the presence of a seller, a buyer and a good. Despite the fact that it is more challenging to trace the transformation of the relationship between these components within a short time period, the stores themselves, the goods, and most importantly the customers did not stop changing both in 2020 and 2021, just like thousands of years before. What have these changes led to and how will they affect retail in 2022? There are six key trends that will continue to have a strong impact the FMCG retail market. Read more...