INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing for talks with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday, seeking diplomatic and economic
Russia-China relations and energy as well as a former senior Russian diplomat told The Moscow Times.Putin might not obtain all of that, but
Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest in March
Like Russia, China is not a member of the ICC and is not obliged to arrest him.During his two-day visit, Putin will attend a forum marking
10 years of the Belt and Road Initiative, China's influence-boosting global infrastructure program
He is scheduled to hold bilateral talks with Xi on Wednesday.The Russian president has brought a large delegation of officials to Beijing
technology, the finance minister, the head of the Central Bank, the powerful heads of the Gazprom and Rosneft energy giants, and the head of
Rosfinmonitoring, the financial intelligence agency."Ideally, Putin would want big raw materials contracts, but they won't happen now
Because any optics that contracts with China provide new sources of income to Putin's military treasury is bad for China
And China is in a position not to do it even if the Russians really want it," said Alexander Gabuev, a leading Russian expert on relations
with China, to The Moscow Times.The Power of Siberia 2 gas pipeline, which traverses Mongolia, is one such project in which the Kremlin is
consulting agency RusEnergy, told The Moscow Times.The Kremlin sees the project as a way to replace revenues lost due to the end of Russian
such a pipeline, with a capacity of 55 billion cubic meters a year, will still not replace the halted supplies to Europe: 155 billion cubic
In the nearly two years since the invasion of Ukraine, the volume of trade turnover between the countries has already increased by 60%,
to put itself forward as a mediator earlier this year with a peace plan that was praised by Putin but treated with skepticism by Ukraine and
its Western allies.China may have supplied Russia with dual-use goods, including parts for drones, Western media reported in March
stabilized Russia's consumer market by substituting goods from the U.S
and Europe that would otherwise disappear from the market or increase in price due to markups by middlemen, Mikhail Korostikov, a China
expert and columnist at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, told The Moscow Times."The Kremlin believes that with the exception of specific
and Russian internet service providers on blocking YouTube and VPN services, Russian media outlets wrote following Xi's visit to Russia that
including microprocessors and motherboards to prepare for the blocking of VPN services, YouTube, WhatsApp, Telegram and other foreign
platforms, according to the independent investigative outlet The Insider."Russia has long been considered a big brother to China
dynamic, however."But that doesn't mean Beijing can dictate anything to Moscow
It is only increasing its influence
Russia is a powerful major power with nuclear weapons
And the antagonism between China and the United States makes China look at Russia as an important rear that it has to somehow maintain,"
