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Poland’s $230 Million Venezuelan Oil Deal - Crypto, Empty Tankers and a Corporate Scandal

A plan to secure Venezuelan crude and diversify Poland away from Russian oil turned into a remarkable trading failure for energy group Orlen.

By EuroAsia.News · 19 September 2026 · 12:14 · 2 min read

• Venezuela
• Poland
• Dubai
• Oil
• Crypto

Russia Votes Across 11 Time Zones - From Arctic Settlements to the State Duma

Russia began three days of voting today, in an election remarkable not only for its political significance but for the sheer logistical challenge of organising a national vote across the world’s largest country.

By EuroAsia.News · 18 September 2026 · 19:22 · 3 min read

• Russia
• Elections

Armenia Moves Closer to the EU Market as Parliament Approves Trade Liberalisation

Armenia’s economic reorientation toward new export markets has taken another important step after the European Parliament overwhelmingly approved temporary trade-liberalisation measures that would remove tariffs from a broad range of Armenian goods entering the European Union.

By EuroAsia.News · 17 September 2026 · 12:35 · 2 min read

• EU
• Armenia
• Russia

Kyrgyzstan’s Wartime Boom - How the Ukraine War Rewired a Central Asian Economy

Few countries have benefited economically from the geopolitical shock of the Ukraine war as visibly as Kyrgyzstan.

By EuroAsia.News · 16 September 2026 · 10:33 · 3 min read

• Russia
• Ukraine
• Kyrgyzstan
• Economy

Checkmate Europe? The Energy Advantage Europe Gave Away Is Moving East

Europe's break with Russian energy was presented as a question of strategic independence. Politically, the argument was straightforward: an economy should not depend heavily on a geopolitical adversary for its fuel.

By EuroAsia.News · 15 September 2026 · 00:00 · 4 min read

• EU
• Energy
• Gas
• Factory Closure

Russia Lost Europe — But Is Building a Bigger Gas Market in Asia

For half a century, Russian gas flowed west. Germany, Italy, Austria and much of Central Europe became connected to Siberian gas fields through an enormous pipeline network, while Gazprom built one of the world's most profitable energy-export businesses.

By EuroAsia.News · 14 September 2026 · 00:00 · 3 min read

• EU
• Economy
• Gas
• Energy
• Russia

Germany’s Industrial Model Was Built on Cheap Energy — Can It Survive Without Russian Gas?

For decades, Germany’s industrial strength rested on a powerful combination: engineering excellence, skilled labour, export markets and reliable energy at internationally competitive prices. Soviet and Russian oil and pipeline gas became a major part of that model.

By EuroAsia.News · 13 September 2026 · 10:13 · 2 min read

• Germany
• Russia
• Gas
• Economy

Is Hungary Under EU Pressure to Destroy Its Russian Relations?

Ten diplomats expelled, Russian relations deteriorating and a curious new “energy cooperation” with Latvia — Budapest’s foreign-policy pivot is becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss as symbolism. But what does Hungary actually gain if political alignment with Brussels comes at the price of its established relationship with Moscow?

By EuroAsia.News · 11 September 2026 · 12:18 · 3 min read

• Hungary
• EU
• Gas
• Russia

China Replacing OPEC? How Beijing Became the Swing Power in the Global Oil Market

For half a century, discussions about who controls the oil market usually began with OPEC. Saudi Arabia’s spare production capacity, cartel quotas and, later, the wider OPEC+ alliance with Russia could move prices with a single announcement. But the centre of gravity may now be shifting from the countries producing the marginal barrel to the country buying it.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 13:48 · 2 min read

• Energy
• Oil
• China
• Economy

Mongolia’s Next Transformation - From Landlocked State to Eurasian Transport Hub

For decades Mongolia’s geography seemed a disadvantage. With no seaport and only Russia and China as neighbours, the country depended on a few border crossings to reach world markets. Ulaanbaatar is now trying to turn that geography into an asset, positioning Mongolia as a transport, logistics, energy and processing bridge between Northeast Asia, Central Asia and Europe.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 11:18 · 2 min read

• EurAsia
• Mongoloia
• China
• Russia
• Transport Corridor

Europe Exchanged Russian Gas Supply — But Has It Exchanged One "Vulnerability" for Another?

Europe is approaching another winter with an uncomfortable number attached to its energy security.

By EuroAsia.News · 5 September 2026 · 00:00 · 3 min read

• Energy
• Europe
• Russia
• Gas
• LNG

Eastern Economic Forum Closes with Nearly 7 Trillion Rubles in Deals — But the Bigger Story Is How Much the Far East Has Already Changed

The 2026 Eastern Economic Forum ended in Vladivostok with hundreds of agreements, new transport and industrial projects and another expansion of Russia's economic relationship with Asia. Yet behind the headline contracts is a broader transformation: after more than a decade of preferential investment regimes, subsidised housing and even free land, the Russian Far East is beginning to look very different from the region that entered the first EEF in 2015.

By EuroAsia.News · 4 September 2026 · 19:42 · 4 min read

• EuroAsia
• Russia
• News
• Economy

The Russian Far East - A Continent Within a Country

The Russian Far East is a continent-sized world. Administratively it is the Far Eastern Federal District, comprising 11 territories from Buryatia and Zabaykalsky Krai to Yakutia, Chukotka, Kamchatka, Sakhalin and Primorye. Together they cover 6.95 million square kilometers—40.6% of Russia. That is about 71% of the entire United States, and more than one and a half times the European Union.

By EuroAsia.News · 3 September 2026 · 08:30 · 3 min read

From Vladivostok to the Chinese Shopping Cart

At the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russian-Chinese cooperation is moving from declarations to the consumer’s screen. The Russian Export Center (REC) is using the 2026 forum to stage its first “Made in Russia” online festival there, linking Russian producers with Chinese marketplaces, livestream hosts and millions of buyers. Around 100 applications came from makers of food, drinks, cosmetics, toys and souvenirs.

By EuroAsia.News · 3 September 2026 · 00:30 · 2 min read

• Vladivostok
• China
• Made in Russia
• Food
• Online

The Big Talk of Pashinyan - Who Does He Think He Is Fooling?

Nikol Pashinyan arrived at the SCO summit in Bishkek talking about “multipolarity”, strategic relations with Russia and Armenia's desire to cooperate with everyone. Yet behind the diplomatic language lies a contradiction that becomes harder to disguise: Armenia has legally launched a process toward European Union membership while continuing to enjoy the economic advantages of the Russian-led Eurasian Economic Union. How long can Yerevan really sit on two chairs?

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 22:14 · 3 min read

• EU
• EAEU
• Armenia
• Russia
• EuroAsia

Digital Ruble vs Digital Yuan - Can Russia and China Build a Sanctions-Resistant Payment Network?

Russia's mass-market digital ruble rollout begins just as China's digital yuan is moving increasingly into cross-border trade. Together, the two systems raise a strategically important possibility: direct digital settlement between two of Eurasia's largest economies without depending on dollar clearing or Western correspondent banks. The technology increasingly exists. The more difficult questions are interoperability, exchange rates, regulation and whether Beijing actually wants to move that quickly.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 10:53 · 4 min read

• Crypto
• Economy
• Russia
• China
• Finance
• Trade

Russia Launches the Digital Ruble - Moscow Moves Ahead of Europe as America Bets on Stablecoins

Russia begins the large-scale rollout of the digital ruble today, 1 September 2026, moving its central-bank digital currency from a controlled experiment into everyday banking. The project puts Russia years ahead of the planned digital euro in public deployment — but follows a fundamentally different model from the United States, which has rejected a federal CBDC and is instead building its digital-money strategy around privately issued dollar stablecoins.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 09:47 · 4 min read

• Digital Ruble
• Crypto
• Russia
• Euro
• Economy

SCO at 25 - From Border-Security Group to a Eurasian Powerhouse

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation marks its 25th anniversary at its summit in Bishkek with China, Russia, India and the major powers of Central Asia around the same table. What began in 2001 as a security organisation of six states has developed into a Eurasian grouping representing more than 3.4 billion people, around a quarter of the global economy and some of the world's largest reserves of energy and strategic minerals. The central question for its next 25 years is whether that enormous potential can be converted into deeper economic integration.

By EuroAsia.News · 1 September 2026 · 08:42 · 4 min read

• Eurasia
• Middle Corridor
• Nordic Route
• Trans Caspian
• Energy

Vladivostok 2026: Russia’s Eastern Economic Forum Opens With Asia at the Centre

The 11th Eastern Economic Forum opens in Vladivostok on 1 September with representatives from more than 70 countries expected, major delegations from across Asia and a growing pipeline of investment projects. After three successive years of record deal-making, Moscow is presenting the Russian Far East not as a remote frontier but as one of the principal gateways connecting Russia with China, India, Southeast Asia and the Arctic.

By EuroAsia.News · 31 August 2026 · 14:40 · 3 min read

• Eastern Economic Forum
• EEF 2026
• Vladivostok
• Russia
• Russian Far East
• investment
• China
• India
• Indonesia
• Prabowo Subianto
• Vladimir Putin
• Northern Sea Route
• Eurasia

After Ukraine, the Arctic? NATO Builds a New Front Against Russia in the High North

As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth year without a decisive military outcome, NATO is rapidly expanding its military posture in the Arctic. The alliance calls the buildup deterrence against a growing "Russian threat". Moscow sees the same deployments as a direct threat to its territory. The danger is that a region once presented as a model of cooperation could become the next major front line between Russia and the West.

By EuroAsia.News · 31 August 2026 · 12:20 · 3 min read

• Arctic
• Europe
• Nato
• Russia

China to Hamburg - How Much Shorter Is the Northern Sea Route?

For cargo travelling between China and northern Europe, the map makes the attraction of the Arctic immediately obvious. A voyage from Shanghai to Hamburg is roughly 5,200 kilometers shorter through the Northern Sea Route than through the Suez Canal. The question is whether that geographical advantage can be transformed into reliable commercial shipping.

By EuroAsia.News · 30 August 2026 · 17:15 · 3 min read

• Shipping
• China
• Russia
• Nordic Sea Route
• Suez

Russia’s Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet - The Power Behind Moscow’s Arctic Strategy

Russia’s nuclear-powered icebreakers give Moscow a capability no other country currently possesses at comparable scale. Eight nuclear vessels are in service, more are being built, and the Kremlin is betting that an expanded fleet will turn the Northern Sea Route into one of Eurasia’s most important transport corridors. Yet sanctions, ageing Soviet-era ships and increasingly demanding Arctic operations are testing that advantage.

By EuroAsia.News · 30 August 2026 · 16:52 · 6 min read

• Arctic
• Shipping
• Eurasia
• Economy

Armenia's European Dream - Economic Suicide or Necessary Diversification?

Between Russian Market and EU Aspirations — How a Landlocked Nation Risks Repeating the Pernod Ricard Lesson, Trading Its Largest Market for Unproven Promises, While Facing a 23% GDP Contraction and the Loss of Its Traditional Export Lifeline.

By EuroAsia.News · 24 August 2026 · 19:46 · 4 min read

• Economy
• Trade
• EU
• Russia

The Battle of Kursk 1943 ended - The Clash of Steel That Broke the Wehrmacht

From July 5 to August 23, 1943, over 4 million soldiers, 13,200 tanks, and 12,000 aircraft clashed across the Russian steppe in a battle that would mark the final, irreversible collapse of German offensive power on the Eastern Front—and arguably the largest and most consequential military engagement in human history.

By EuroAsia.News · 23 August 2026 · 09:18 · 4 min read

Ruble, Yuan and Euro: How Eurasia's Currency Map Is Changing

Eurasia's currency map is shifting away from Western financial systems toward a multipolar model driven by the Chinese yuan, the Russian ruble, and a consolidating euro.

By EuroAsia.News · 22 August 2026 · 19:11 · 3 min read

• Finance

The Digital Silk Way - Eurasia's New Digital Corridor

How a 380-kilometre submarine cable beneath the Caspian Sea is creating the first direct high-speed data bridge between Asia and Europe—bypassing traditional routes through Russia and the Red Sea, reshaping regional geopolitics, and laying the foundation for a new era of digital connectivity in Eurasia.

By EuroAsia.News · 22 August 2026 · 09:23 · 4 min read

• Eurasia
• Digital

205th Anniversary of Bolhrad, August 25, 2026 (Ukraine)

Founded in 1821 by Bulgarian settlers in the Russian Empire Bessarabia region, the city of Bolhrad marks its 205th anniversary on August 25, 2026. Originally a military settlement established under the auspices of Genera

By EuroAsia.News · 21 August 2026 · 11:30 · 1 min read

• Russia
• Ukraine

Collapse of the Hard-Line Coup Against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev (August 21, 1991)

On August 19, 1991, hard-line Communist Party officials launched a coup to overthrow reformist Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, placing him under house arrest in Crimea. Over three tense days, mass popular resistance—

By EuroAsia.News · 21 August 2026 · 11:16 · 1 min read

• Russia

Europe Amputated its Russian Trade — And the US Stepped in.

Brussels cut off one of Europe’s largest trading relationships after 2022. Russia found new customers, while the United States — from a far smaller base — continues Russian import.

By EuroAsia.News · 20 August 2026 · 17:20 · 2 min read

• Economy
• Trade

Russia's Biotech Renaissance

Breakthroughs in Cancer Therapy and Brain Repair

By EuroAsia.News · 20 August 2026 · 00:23 · 4 min read

• Health
• Brain
• Cancer

Russia’s Skif Synchrotron Nears First Light — A New Scientific Powerhouse In Siberia

Russia’s first fourth-generation synchrotron radiation source is entering its decisive commissioning phase near Novosibirsk. Designed to reveal the structure of matter at atomic and nanoscale levels, SKIF could become one of Eurasia’s most advanced research facilities.

By EuroAsia.News · 19 August 2026 · 17:26 · 3 min read

• Science
• Technology

New Russian Crypto Law

Russia is preparing one of the most significant changes to its cryptocurrency policy in years. A new law adopted by the State Duma will create a formal regulatory framework for buying, selling and holding cryptocurrencie

By EuroAsia.News Editorial · 16 August 2026 · 20:56 · 2 min read

Russia Dominates—and Restrains—the Global Wheat Market

The 2026/27 wheat season is revealing sharp differences between major producing regions. Global output may fall slightly below last season’s exceptional level, but improving harvest prospects in Russia, Ukraine and Argentina could compensate for weaker production elsewhere and keep international prices under pressure.

By EuroAsia.News Editorial · 16 August 2026 · 14:40 · 1 min read

• wheat
• Black Sea
• exports
• commodities