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WASHINGTON, DC, October 31, 2026 - The Eastern Economic Forum 2026 sits at the center of a new Ukraine Files analysis by William Aaron Turner, founder and president of Infinitum Corporation, who uses the Vladivostok gathering to ask whether Russia is actually isolated. The article, "Eastern Economic Forum 2026: Is Russia Isolated?", is Part 3 of an eight-part series.Turner starts with the turnout. According to figures cited in the piece, more than 5,000 representatives from 80 countries attended the four-day 11th EEF in September, compared with 75 countries a year earlier. Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev is quoted as saying, "I would struggle to name a major country not present at this forum."
Deal values and regional investment
The paper reports that the 2025 forum produced 358 agreements worth 6.058 trillion rubles ($71 billion), and that the 2026 edition was expected to sign 380 agreements worth 6.5 trillion rubles ($79.9 billion). Cumulative Far East figures cited by 2026 are 6.8 trillion rubles of investment, 1,118 new enterprises and 163,000 new jobs.
Payments, currencies and energy
A large part of the analysis covers how Russia now settles its trade. Turner writes that more than 99 percent of commercial payments between Russia and China are made in rubles and yuan, that the yuan held a 54 percent share of Moscow Exchange trading in May 2026, and that only about 5 percent of Russian oil exports are now settled in dollars, compared with 55 percent before 2022. On energy, the article notes that Power of Siberia 1 reached its designed 38 billion cubic meters a year in 2025, that a memorandum on Power of Siberia 2 was signed even as Western outlets reported no final deal in May 2026, and that the 531-kilometer Pacific Railway opened in September 2025.
Trade partners
The post cites China-Russia trade of $228.1 billion in 2025, down 6.9 percent from the 2024 record, then up 26.3 percent over seven months of 2026, along with a Financial Times assessment that Moscow is "more dependent on Beijing." India-Russia goods trade is cited as rising from about $13 billion in 2021-22 to nearly $60 billion in 2025-26, mostly Indian oil imports. ASEAN trade with Russia reached $17.8 billion in 2025, which ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn called "still very much modest."
Security ties and the sanctions debate
Turner lists the first ASEAN-Russia naval exercise in December 2025, the Orruda 2026 drill with Indonesia, Typhoon-2026 and Laros-2026 with Laos, and Russia's ADMM Plus demining co-chair role for 2024-2027. He quotes Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent ("If you're going to do something 19 times, you've failed"), Secretary of State Marco Rubio on "running out of things to sanction," and J.D. Vance, alongside Institute of International Finance and Chatham House research, including the 26,665 sanctions on Russia and an estimated GDP loss "well in excess of $1.6 trillion."
His argued conclusion: "The isolation story was a narrative, not a result." The piece closes, "The isolation cage was built, but the door was left wide open," and invites readers to check its full reference list.
Full article: https://ukrainianfiles.blogspot.com/2026/10/eastern-economic-forum-2026-vladivostok.html
Infinitum Corporation: https://www.theinfinitumcorporation.com
About Infinitum Corporation
Infinitum Corporation is a technology and security consulting firm headquartered in Washington, DC (1629 K Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006), with Moscow as an operating location. It provides cybersecurity consulting, network defense, ethical hacking and vulnerability assessment, AI applications for security operations, strategic risk assessment, defense technology advisory and Corporate Cognitive Warfare. Open 24 hours. Phone 202-729-9509. info@theinfinitumcorporation.com. https://www.theinfinitumcorporation.com | Telegram: https://t.me/infinitumcorporation
Media contact: William Aaron Turner, Founder and President, Infinitum Corporation, 202-729-9509, infinitum-media@mail.grokbot.com