... Igor Ivanov and COMEXI Advisor, Member of the Board of Directors and Coordinator of the Russia Study Group, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mexico, Rubén Beltrán.
The speakers included:
Dmitry Rozental, Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
Rainer Matos, Member of the COMEXI Russia Study Group, Scholar in Russian Studies;
Victor Heifetz, Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Latinskaya Amerika’’, Professor at St. Petersburg State ...
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 ...
... Ukrainian crisis and requiring an immediate solution, is the need to find new business partners and suppliers of food products for the Russian market following the food embargo imposed by Vladimir Putin’s government on those countries which joined
sanctions against Russia
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We can assume that if the Kremlin had a strategic vision for Latin America as a long-term partner, it was mostly in ideological and geopolitical terms, rather that trade and economic ones. This new vision has shaped our relationship, especially during moments of growing tension with the West. This explains the ...
... situation created around Russia by the United States and its Western allies.
Finally, the embargo imposed by the Russian government in early August 2014 on the imports of some food products and raw materials from those Western countries that imposed sanctions on Russia provides ample opportunities for a number of countries in Latin America to fill the niche and thereby also improve their own economic position. According to the
forecast produced by the Inter-American Development Bank
, in 2014-2015, their growth is expected to slow to an average of just 2 percent.
It is possible ...
