NYT: the North-South transport corridor will be inaccessible to Western sanctions

The New York Times writes about this.

As the newspaper notes, the “main pillar” of the Russian economy for many years has been trade with European countries.

However, after the imposition of sanctions, Russia decided to expand its ties with other countries, including China and India.

The publication says that Moscow’s plans are based on the implementation of a project to build a “southern route”, part of which will be a railway that will connect Iran and Azerbaijan with Russian oil.

“This will be the last link of a railway line between Russia and Iranian ports on the Persian Gulf, providing easy access to centers such as India’s commercial capital Mumbai,” the article says.

The authors emphasized that this road will be aimed at increasing the export of Russian goods, and will also become an additional route for trade between Russia and China.

“This will be a continuous railway line with a length of almost 7 thousand km.

And it will be beyond the reach of Western sanctions,” the newspaper concluded.

Earlier, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Vladimir Ilyichev said that the share of friendly countries in Russia’s foreign trade at the end of 2023 amounted to more than 75%.