... Afghanistan's entire financial system. This action came after decades of U.S. economic dominance in Afghanistan, where foreign aid constituted 75% of the national budget during the
2001-2021 period
.
Unlike Iran's sanctions—which primarily affected its own economy—these measures against Afghanistan directly destroyed the country's governance capacity, banking infrastructure, and humanitarian lifelines, creating the precise conditions that forced
500,000
Afghans to seek refuge in Iran during 2021 alone....
... set of long-standing political problems (for example, the Taiwan issue), ideological differences (China maintains its commitment to socialism based on a strong civilisational foundation and national interests) and increasingly tough competition in the economy and finance (China is pursuing industry, technology and finance in its own way). Such problems in relations between Brazil and the US are simply difficult to imagine at the current stage. At the recent BRICS summit, the country's leadership pursued ...
... commerce grants each entrepreneur access to an unlimited currency-printing machine to expand. Imagine a dark, debt-ridden, and dying business model being practiced by all others, where debt limits are used as real collateral to prop up the national economy, and towering debt is seen as a symbol of success. Neither any sustainable enterprise nor an economy will survive under such a model. Entrepreneurial mysticism has a fundamental fiscal philosophy spanning millennia, in which productivity, performance,...
Working Paper No. 92 / 2025
Working Paper No. 92 / 2025
The following working paper examines the relationship between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It includes a detailed assessment of trade and economic ties between the two associations, identifying the key priorities and interests of EAEU member states in developing trade and economic relations with ASEAN countries. The paper also attempts to map ways in which the EAEU and ASEAN can...
Authors: Eugene Kornov, Master’s degree student, Basic Department of Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University
Sophie Klimova, Master’s degree student, Basic Department of Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University
...
On June 25, 2025 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR) co-organized the round table “EAEU 2025+: Economic and Social Dimensions” in Minsk, Belarus
On June 25, 2025 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and Belarusian Institute of Strategic Research (BISR) co-organized the round table “EAEU 2025+: Economic and Social Dimensions” in Minsk, Belarus. The event was held on the sidelines of the regular meeting of the Eurasian...
... economic costs on Germany. Prior to the Ukraine conflict, the Ifo Institute calculated losses amounting to 0.2% of the GDP (roughly €200 per household). New estimates by the MIWI Institute place the sanction-induced economic damages on the German economy at 2.5% of the GDP (approximately €2,500 per household).
German sanctions have also led to severe economic losses in countries of asylum-seeker origin. Particularly affected are Syria (0.2% of the GDP), Iran (0.3%), Afghanistan (0.8%), Eritrea ...
The event was timed to coincide with the release of the RIAC working paper, "Russia's Trade with Latin America and the Caribbean: Current State and Prospects."
On June 17, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), in partnership with the Center for Integration and Cooperation between Russia and Latin America (CICRAL), held a roundtable titled "Russia-Latin America Trade and Economic Relations: Moving Forward?". The event was timed to coincide with the release of...
... job-seeker mindset is collapsing free economies. When national leadership is managed and controlled by the Anti-Job Creation Syndrome, job creation and economic growth are stifled. It is time to measure, audit, test, and verify such facts across a national economy and determine how to fix mindset divisions as the next step.
Economies Without Entrepreneurialism Equate to Economic Destruction
A deep immersion of the last 100 entrepreneurs within any nation will provide a clear picture and raise the critical ...
... is an important partner for us in areas such as oil, gas and small nuclear reactors, which is an extraordinary novelty, so that we can have guaranteed energy for ever and ever.” The president also
noted
that if Brazil wants to be the fifth largest economy in the world, it needs more stable energy than wind or solar power, “so that what happened to Spain and Portugal [during the recent electricity blackout in April 2025] never happens to us.
The nuclear sector was also high on the agenda of Brazil's ...
