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Cut off from Western finance, Moscow has fully activated its Digital Ruble, linking it to China's e-CNY. We analyze how this blockchain-based trade corridor bypasses SWIFT, allowing the Kremlin to secure energy revenues and procure dual-use technologies outside the reach of US secondary sanctions.
A deep-dive on how Russia has turned agricultural supply chains — grain exports, fertiliser flows, and Black Sea logistics — into geopolitical tools, using commercial networks, maritime coercion, and shadow routes to shape markets, influence states in Africa and MENA, and blunt sanctions.
Exposes how Moscow uses security contracts, private military firms, and state firms to lock access to African cobalt, lithium, uranium and gold—fuelling military production, sanctions evasion, and new trade corridors through China and Gulf intermediaries.
Investigates Moscow's growing footprint in Latin America—military access, port and airfield logistics, energy-for-security ties, and covert financial routes—that create new forward nodes for power projection and sanctions circumvention in the Western Hemisphere.
Investigative analysis of how Moscow sustains advanced weapons and drones by exploiting global tech supply chains: re‑exports, Chinese intermediaries, Gulf transit hubs, and covert procurement networks that turn civilian chips into military advantage.
How Russia turns Arctic shipping into a dual use tool to evade sanctions, finance military build up, and project power. This piece exposes reflagging, ship to ship transfers, insurance workarounds, and prescribes NATO and Western policy tools to close the Arctic loophole.
A focused investigation into how Moscow uses Arctic routes, ship-to-ship transfers, reflagging, shadow fleets, and opaque finance — including Chinese and Gulf intermediaries — to blunt sanctions and keep energy revenues flowing.