August has once more brought disaster to Russia. This same month has, over a dozen years, seen Russia’s sovereign default, two submarine accidents, terror bombings of airliners and the Georgian war. Now it has witnessed the deadly climax of the country’s worst...

Russia is desperate to put the “R” back in the Brics. Its membership of the elite quartet was questioned last year when its economy shrank 8 per cent, while Brazil’s contraction was barely noticeable and Indian and Chinese output powered ahead. Now Alexei Kudrin, the finance...

Chinese premier Wen Jiabao recently told a German trade delegation that China would not block exports of rare earth metals, while disputing allegations that China’s investment climate has worsened for foreign businesses. European and American business associations have expressed ...

In its recently released report on the state of the global mining industry – ‘Mine – Back to the Boom’ – PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) reported that, in 2009, the Chinese had been in the forefront of mining mergers and acquisitions (M&A) across the world....