ROBOTS ET HUMANOÏDES

The ancient Silk Road, or as it is more often called nowadays silk roads, was an ancient trade route from eastern China to various major markets of the ancient and medieval periods 

Safeguarding wealth in the country often hinges on personal ties and tacit agreements. But can an oligarch pass that to the next generation?

Production of vegetables in Russia continues to rise rapidly, with new greenhouses coming into production and open-field yields on the increase.

Les larves de mouches minutieusement sélectionnées recyclent les déchets organiques pour en faire de l'engrais et de la nourriture destinée à l'élevage. Un système qui pourrait à terme augmenter de manière écologique les rendements agricoles.

Russia's state agriculture watchdog is considering plans to strengthen controls on grain exports, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday

Russian Ministry of Agriculture intends to set preferential tariffs for grain transportation from Siberian Federal District. The thing is that internal prices for 1 MT of grain are RUB 3000-4000 lower than in the European part of Russia, reports UkrAgroConsult.

Le solde positif a bondi de 65 % sur onze mois. Le record de 198 milliards de dollars, qui date de 2011, devrait être battu.

Crimea is essential to Russia strategically and economically, but talk of Turkey helping to increase the US presence in the Black Sea seems far-fetched given Turkey's energy deals with Moscow.

En 2018, les sanctions qui ne cessaient de pleuvoir sur la Russie ne l’ont pas empêchée de battre nombre de records dans le domaine de l’économie et des finances. Sputnik a retenu 10 d’entre eux.

Five Japanese fishing boats were boarded by Russian border authorities around the contested Northern Territories island of Kunashiri on Jan. 7, and one boat was even temporarily taken into custody, the Rausu Fisheries Cooperative Association told the Mainichi Shimbun.

Poutine I (1999-2004) a été le président de la restauration de l’autorité de l’Etat à l’intérieur. Poutine II (2004-2008) a été celui de la prospérité comme Poutine III (Premier ministre et président entre 2008 et 2018) a été celui de la modernisation des forces armées. Poutine IV (2018-2024, voire au-delà) peut-il enfin être le grand réformateur économique de l’économie russe.

Les autorités russes ont annoncé samedi interdire l'importation d'Ukraine de dizaines de produits parmi lesquels le blé, le chocolat et la bière, en réponse aux sanctions économiques de Kiev visant la Russie pour son rôle présumé dans la crise ukrainienne.

Cambodia and Russia have agreed to create a joint chamber of commerce to facilitate trade, according to a representative of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce. The Cambodia-Russia Inter-Chamber Working Group is expected to be formed this year as a joint effort of the Cambodia Chamber of Commerce (CCC) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Russia.

Russia’s 2019/20 wheat production will come in at around 67 million mt at its current trajectory, which would be a fall of about 4% from last year’s output, the country’s agriculture minister said in a meeting Monday.

Russia has finally announced that it would host African leaders and corporate business tycoons in a high-level October summit in Sochi, south coastal city, to roll out a comprehensive agenda and strategy aimed at raising the existing overall Russia’s economic profile in Africa, St Petersburg based Roscongress, the official organizer of the October summit.

Euronext wheat futures rose on Monday to their highest in more than a week as growing signs of supply tensions in Russia revived hopes of a shift in export demand towards U.S. and western European origins.

Wheat futures closed higher on Tuesday as traders return from a long weekend amid concerns about Russian exports. Soybeans and corn declined. 

Ses récoltes de blé ayant été très faibles en 2018, la Syrie a acheté à la Russie 200.000 tonnes de cette céréale au mois de janvier et envisage d'en acheter le même volume le mois prochain, écrit le quotidien syrien al-Baath.

As the West-Russia tensions have grown over the past years, one theater of Russian foreign policy, namely management of breakaway regions, has largely fallen out of analysts’ works. 

One factor gaining attention has been the sluggish improvement in wheat yields versus those for corn and soybeans. The compounding effects of this deficit have been amplified by the introduction of drought-resistant varieties of corn, giving growers in states like Kansas more economically attractive alternatives to wheat. Rising domestic demand for corn, especially for biofuel, and for soybeans, principally for export, have further contributed to the erosion of wheat plantings.

Russia is interested in supplying grain and grain products to Bolivia, and has already asked the Bolivian Embassy to help Russian authorities receive the necessary import requirements, the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) said in a statement on Thursday.

Russia's Agriculture Ministry is considering doubling the quota on tomato imports from Turkey to 100,000 tonnes a year, Interfax news agency reported on Saturday, citing a draft decree.