{"id":22324,"date":"2026-09-21T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/21\/russia-trade-shift-asia-africa-europe-us\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:00:16","slug":"russia-trade-shift-asia-africa-europe-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/21\/russia-trade-shift-asia-africa-europe-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says trade is shifting toward Asia and Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has said the country&#8217;s trade route is shifting away from the markets of Europe and the United States toward China, India, Central Asia, Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>He said on Monday that the Russian government is steadily expanding an economy focused on supply, with special attention being given to domestic goods and brands.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mishustin, the infrastructure needed for this approach is being built not only inside Russia, but also in the countries targeted by Moscow. He added that this process is part of Russia&#8217;s effort to reset its trade relations.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian prime minister continued to defend the policy and stressed that Moscow would keep moving in this direction.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, especially after tensions rose with Western countries, Russia has sought to steer its economic and trade ties more toward Asian, African and Middle Eastern markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says its trade is shifting from Europe and the US toward Asia, Africa, the Middle East, China and India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}