ROBOTS ET HUMANOÏDES

The giant hogweed isn’t just an invasive plant. It’s a metaphor for what is happening to much of this country.

En Russie, la récolte de céréales en 2020 pourrait atteindre 127 millions de tonnes, dont environ 84 millions de tonnes de blé, selon le conseiller du président de l’Union russe des céréales, Maxime Golovine, cité par l’agence Ria Novosti.

La Russie s’appuie de longue date sur son influence politique auprès de la Biélorussie pour développer sa politique extérieure, aussi bien sur le plan diplomatique qu’économique. La crise politique que connaît cette dernière pourrait remettre en question les relations géoéconomiques entre les deux pays, et plus particulièrement concernant les échanges agroalimentaires.

La moisson se poursuit en Russie, malgré un rythme qui a nettement ralenti d'une semaine sur l'autre. 47 % des surfaces de blé ont été récoltées, d’après le ministère de l’agriculture du pays.

Les récoltes des cultures d’hiver de l’hémisphère Nord touchent à leur fin, même si la Russie n’a pas encore livré tous ses secrets. À la date du 18 août, il restait un peu moins de la moitié des surfaces à récolter.

It was a long time coming. Five years after the Intelligence and Security Committee wanted to begin an inquiry into Russian interference in the UK, two years after the ISC did begin an inquiry.

L'implication de Moscou auprès des différents acteurs du conflit libyen témoigne de la volonté de la Russie de renforcer sa présence politique et militaire sur le continent africain. Le Courrier de Russie s’est entretenu avec Enguine Ozer, directeur du cercle de réflexion politique La Voix de l’Afrique, sur les perspectives des relations russo-africaines.

Everyone knows that competition at the top is always the hardest. The world leaders in entrepreneurship rankings now have a new competitor:  Kazakhstan, as the World Bank announced that Kazakhstan now ranks #25 on its highly-regarded Doing Business report. While free-market champion Georgia and the three Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are ahead, Iceland, Russia, and Austria are behind the Eurasian emerging leader.

Russia’s relations with the West are at their lowest point in two decades. Similar patterns of warming and cooling have taken place intermittently ever since Russia emerged as a major Eurasian power in the early 18th century. Each crisis with the West alternated with rapprochement and at times full military and security cooperation.

After a lengthy Covid-induced delay, Vladimir Putin’s ‘nationwide vote’ on a package of amendments to the Russian constitution will finally take place later this week. From June 25 to July 1 Russian voters will be able to say Yes or No to a series of changes affecting areas such as religion, patriotism, marriage, education and …

The head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund Kirill Dmitriev sees no point in extending strict global oil output cuts as world economies and oil demand recovers from the depths of the coronavirus crisis, he told the RBC Daily newspaper.

Russia already dominates global oil – letting them dominate global food during a pandemic would spell disaster for the EU. It would effectively mean the EU, not just depending on Russian energy, but increasingly also on Russian food supply.

The relations between China and Russia are on the rise, and agriculture is one of the most promising areas of the two countries’ partnership. While Beijing intends to diversify and secure its food imports, Moscow aims to access new promising markets with high capacity.

Beneath some of the world’s busiest fisheries, radioactive submarines from the Soviet era lie disintegrating on the seafloor. Decades later, Russia is preparing to retrieve them.

Everyone has already heard that the Russians did it again—they launched the world’s first Sputnik. This time, however, it refers not to a satellite or a state-run news agency, but to an experimental Covid-19 vaccine that has been officially registered in Russia and announced by President Putin for widespread use.

Gayane Azatyan has grown veg for 20 years - a prosperous enough venture despite the bad seed that was planted by the Soviet system and has blighted Armenia all her working life.

Alors que la stratégie des autorités russes sur la souveraineté alimentaire mise en place dans les années 2010 porte aujourd’hui ses fruits, le Portail de l’IE s’interroge sur la construction d’une politique de sécurité alimentaire comme levier de puissance en Russie.

La Russie a importé 575.200 tonnes de légumes d'une valeur de 583,5 millions de dollars. En termes de tonnage, les importations ont augmenté.

As the World’s largest country, about 70% of Russia’s land area is estimated to be a high risk territory for agriculture with productive agricultural lands accounting for only 13% of the country’s total land size yet the agriculture sector continues to flourish, positioning Russia as an agriculture powerhouse in the World – in 2016, Russia became the World’s largest exporter of wheat.

Dzhambulat Hatuov, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia, held a meeting on the introduction of unused agricultural land.

After a lengthy Covid-induced delay, Vladimir Putin’s ‘nationwide vote’ on a package of amendments to the Russian constitution will finally take place later this week. 

The Russian Federation has announced a contribution of US$11.2 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to develop a sustainable school feeding programme in Tajikistan. These funds will be used to implement the third and final phase of the project conducted by Russia and WFP from 2020 to 2023. The project is focusing mainly on the renovation of school canteens, training staff at Tajik schools and promoting healthy diets.

Russia's farming sector faces a major crisis during harvest season without migrant workers -- mainly from Central Asia -- experts warn, urging Moscow to allow foreign fruit and vegetable pickers to enter Russia despite the lockdown.