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Transport in Mongolia: Mongolian Road Transport Revolution?

If railway transport in Mongolia made a qualitative breakthrough and had many ambitious endeavours in 2023, the country’s road transport had a symbolic moment that took place in 2022. We are talking about achieving an epoch-making transport and communication task, namely the final connection by asphalt roads the administrative centres of all parts of the country, 21 aimags with the country’s capital, Ulaanbaatar. However, the preliminary results for 2023 in the field of road transport are slightly brightened up by such a significant event for Mongolia. 2023 brought about a breakthrough in the field of transit…

Boris Kushhov

The Red Sea, a new front in Ethiopia’s foreign policy?

For many centuries, one of the most important elements in a country’s ability to successfully expand economically has been its ability to access marine trade routes. The capacity to significantly increase the number of trading partners and to enhance the volume and speed of cargo transportation are two of the obvious benefits of marine trade. A minimum of a modest stretch of sea or ocean coast is also necessary to avoid relying on transit through neighboring states, which helps a country achieve political independence. However, not all nations have direct access to the world’s oceans; at the moment, 44 nations only have land borders and are in some manner…

Ivan Kopytsev

Transport in Mongolia: Three Transit Railway Corridors

The first article in the series on the development of transport infrastructure in Mongolia described Mongolia’s projects in the field of railway transport implemented in 2022-2023. This second article provides a brief overview of the projects of Mongolian colleagues in the same field, which are currently being developed and have not yet reached the construction stage. The Mongolian long-term rail construction program up to the year 2030 is included in the country’s overall development programme “Long-Term Vision – 2030”, which, in turn, is a more detailed and structured part of the “Long-Term Vision – 2050” program. As part of the 2030 program (the projects described in the previous…

Boris Kushhov

Results of the 3rd BRI Forum

Vladimir Terehov

A new, very useful BRICS initiative

Viktor Mikhin

Central Asia in a Boom Over Western Sanctions on Russia

Phil Butler

Rethinking the Greenback: BRICS Challenge the Dollar's Global Dominance

Taut Bataut

The Turkish lira

The Turkish lira is once again hitting record lows, as Erdoğan rushes to the Turani-an expanse...

Alexandr Svaranc

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