ROBOTS ET HUMANOÏDES

Given its escalating confrontation with the West, Russia will become increasingly integrated into China’s tech orbit.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (Minselkhoz), the year 2020 set a new record for Russia’s exports of agricultural products. Cumulatively, the country exported 79 million tons of products (worth $30.7 billion), a 20 percent increase year on year. This success inspired mainstream experts to issue exuberant declarations that Russia is “abandoning its notorious oil dependency” and the long-discussed diversification of its economy is finally taking concrete shape.

Food prices are rising fast in Russia and the government has rolled out temporary price caps, but discontent is simmering.

Representatives from business associations, scientific institutions, and government agencies in Russia and India have agreed to deepen relations in agriculture while preparing for the third round of IRSED (the India-Russia Strategic Economic Dialogue), scheduled for the end of April 2021.

Around 560,000 pigs have been culled on various commercial swine farms in Russia.

Ukraine is currently undergoing an historic transformation that will be felt throughout the world. The globally significant progress I am referring to is agricultural land reform.

Un lanceur Soyuz a décollé avec à son bord le premier satellite russe de surveillance du climat de l'Arctique. Le développement économique de l'Arctique est l'un des principaux objectifs de Vladimir Poutine

Russia is about to double its controversial export tax on wheat.What could it mean for Australian farmers?

Vladimir Putin used to make light of climate change. “An increase of two or three degrees wouldn’t be so bad for a northern country like Russia,” he said in 2003. 

Depuis 2016, les relations entre Moscou et Rabat connaissent un essor, malgré des divergences politiques. Après son intervention militaire en Crimée en 2014, la Russie s'est vu sanctionnée par les pays occidentaux. 

The European Union should be in no hurry either to engage with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s regime or to force a diplomatic crisis. Rather than vacillating between resets and crackdowns, the EU should pursue a strategy of “principled indifference.”

As optimal temperatures move north, Siberia's permafrost will melt, potentially opening up a vast new area to farming. But will anyone want to farm it?

La Russie s’est installée à la première place des grands exportateurs de blé. Et ce n’est sans doute qu’un début si on lit attentivement Jean-Jacques Hervé et Hervé Le Stum dans la dernière édition du Déméter (disponible depuis le 11 février).

Le géant russe Nornickel peine à rouvrir ses deux mines inondées en février en Sibérie. La production mondiale de palladium va inévitablement baisser alors que le marché est déjà très tendu.

The Russian-occupied peninsula is thirsty, with reservoirs running low. It’s an unwelcome predicament at a time when pressures on the Kremlin are rising.

Temperatures in Russia are increasing at more than double the global average, according to scientists, proving that climate change and extreme weather doesn’t just affect U.S. national security as outlined in Cipher Brief Expert Admiral Jim Stavridis’ overview here.  It also affects U.S. allies and adversaries, creating new areas of instability and shifting power dynamics. 

The Russian dandelion helped supply the Allied forces with rubber through the Second World War. Now, tire makers are hoping it could make a commercial comeback.

Malgré l’annulation du Salon de l’agriculture de Paris, les échanges se poursuivent entre les professionnels d’un secteur vital. 

Le président Poutine, au pouvoir depuis vingt ans est en Russie par le marasme économique et la jeunesse.

L’UE n’a adopté lundi que des sanctions symboliques contre plusieurs dignitaires du régime russe après l’arrestation de Navalny. L’arrivée de Joe Biden à la Maison Blanche pourrait inciter les Vingt-Sept à davantage de fermeté.

Following the discovery of the first case of H5N8 bird flu in humans, activists and virologists fear the country’s large-scale farms will become “petri dishes.”

Selon l’OMS, la transmission de la grippe aviaire à l’homme est un fait rare et nécessite « un contact direct ou étroit avec des oiseaux infectés ou avec leur environnement ». Cependant, ce virus « doit être surveillé » car il a un potentiel de mutation.

Les exportations russes de viande de dinde devraient être multipliées par quatre d’ici 2030 par rapport à 2020.

On paper, Japan and Russia have complementary economies. Inreality, trade and investment ties have been hard to forge.

Russia said Saturday that its scientists had detected the world's first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu from birds to humans and had alerted the World Health Organization.