Daily Memo: Russia Branches Out

With so much hostility to the West, it makes sense that Moscow would look east.

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Eastern partners. During the Eastern Economic Forum, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing to discuss bilateral trade, noting that in the first half of 2022, trade between their countries had more than doubled, while Min Aung Hlaing said that Myanmar had begun to buy Russian oil products. At the […]

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