Russia, China to Have Record-High Turnover in 2022, Trade to Grow by 30% - Customs Service

Russia and China will have a record-high turnover by the end of 2022, and the trade growth will be up to 30%, Russian Federal Customs Service First Deputy Head Ruslan Davydov has said in an interview with Sputnik.

"This year, there will be a record-high turnover with China - an increase of up to 30%. With India, there will be a very large increase in turnover by more than 2.5 times, with Iran - by 20%," Davydov said.

"The number of containers under customs control exceeds all historical records," Davydov added.
Davydov said that the main factor limiting Russia's trade with China is insufficiently developed infrastructure.

The head of the Federal Customs Service of Russia, Vladimir Bulavin, said in November that the country's trade with China could grow by 27% to $160 billion in 2022.

Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui told Sputnik last week that the volume of Chinese exports to Russia amounted to $67.34 billion, an increase of 13.4 percent, and China's imports from Russia amounted to $105.07 billion, an increase of 47.5 percent.

He said that in 2022, China and Russia overcame a number of unfavorable factors in their trade and economic cooperation. In particular, in February, the parties signed a road map for the high-quality development of Sino-Russian trade in goods and services, which outlines the path to achieve the set goals in bilateral trade.

The leaders of Russia and China earlier set the goal to double bilateral trade, bringing it from $100 billion a year to $200 billion by 2024. The $100 billion mark was reached in 2018.After talks between the leaders in Beijing on February 4, Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined a new goal to increase Russia-China trade to $250 billion a year.

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The world should not overestimate the significance of the Soviet Union, but should also avoid underrating the importance of Russia, American scholar of Russian history Suzanne Massie, who served as an adviser to President Ronald Reagan, told Sputnik in an interview on the USSR's centennial.

"Now the USSR is already a memory. I was at Gorbachev's funeral in Moscow, and with him the era of the USSR was gone, which, relative to the entire more than a thousand-year history of Russia, lasted only 70 years," Massie said in Russian. "I do not think it is necessary to overestimate the importance of the USSR, but the importance of Russia for the world today cannot and should not be underestimated."

Speaking of lessons Russia could draw from the Soviet period, Massie expressed her belief that Russia needs to combat its age-old bureaucracy.
"America does not know the new Russia at all, its new young faces, its spirit," she added. "I believe that Russia needs to be studied and studied from within, as I once did myself. And I just fell in love with it."

On December 30, 1922, five years after the October Revolution, the First All-Union Congress of Soviets in Moscow declared the creation of the Soviet Union, an entity intended to be built on Marxist principles and dedicated to ushering in a new era of Communism onto the world.

On December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist, soon after the leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus signed the Belovezh Accords, declaring the country dissolved.

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The Ukrainian Armed Forces command has sent units consisting of foreigners armed with NATO-style weapons to the towns of Artemovsk and Soledar in the Donetsk people's republic, an officer of the LPR People's Militia, Andriy Marochko, has told TASS

Marochko said that each group of foreign mercenaries has an interpreter because "the fighters do not know Russian and communicate with each other mostly in English."

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🪖 The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine records the advance of the Allied Forces in the south of Artemivsk

Attacks on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were going on in the area of the village of Ivanovskoye (Krasnoye), indicated in the morning report. The settlement is located on a section of the H-32 highway connecting Artemovsk with Konstantinovka.

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg believes that the supply of weapons to Ukraine by NATO countries will quickly lead to a truce.

"It may sound like a paradox, but military support for Ukraine is the shortest route to peace," he argued in an interview with DPA. According to Stoltenberg, Moscow must realise that it cannot achieve its goals in Ukraine. After that, the NATO secretary general believes, peace talks would allegedly be possible.

At the same time, he made it clear that he considered Kiev's attacks on military facilities in Russia perfectly legitimate. "Every country has the right to defend itself." "Including Ukraine," Stoltenberg said in response to a related question.

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In 2022, the United States spent $113 billion on the war in Ukraine. This is more than what major military powers like India and Russia spend on their military each year.

If anyone still says that the United States is not waging a proxy war against Russia, show them this infographic and spit in their face.

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yet another prime example of ethnically motivated hate speech. For the British media, some lives matter more than others.

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Moscow warned back in the early 1990s that NATO expansion would be a mistake - The Times

The newspaper says Putin told Tony Blair in 2001 that he did not want to be seen as anti-NATO. Back then, Russia had already shown the West the danger of retaliation if the alliance expanded. Igor Sergeev, who was head of the Russian Defense Ministry, told this to his NATO colleagues . 

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Artemovsk per day:

Basically, the paratroopers kept the defense and prevented attempts to approach the bridges. In the area of N. p. Sweet was raised by a UAV, after which an accurate blow was delivered to the enemy in a forest plantation. Closer to the morning, pickups and infantry in the amount of 30+ people were seen, but they were eliminated by ATGMs.
At night, the DRG was stopped in the Yakovlevka area, there is a captured officer.

The rocket hit the PVD of Georgian mercenaries in the area of Konstantinovka.

Bottom line: The enemy is trying to break through many positions again using passenger cars for reconnaissance in force and entrances to the railway tracks, ours hold on and stop their attempts, there is progress.

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Spartan heavens brought dusk and the sinful deeds of the chubs. The descent of vengeance on the non-balgochub sons of the land of Little Russia. All this north of Donetsk, where Ukraine's soldiers refuse to lay down their arms and raise ✋🤚. Their choice. Their path. Their faith.

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Politics: The US is not ready for war in the Indo-Pacific and cannot effectively contain China. The United States' intentions to build up its military power in the Indo-Pacific region for the sake of defending Taiwan came too late.

China has long since significantly increased its forces, but U.S. capabilities are limited. Washington cannot effectively support Taiwan because of logistical problems and the Ukrainian crisis, which diverts resources and attention.

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