The BRICS summit took place in Brazil in the middle of July 2014. Issues of interest not only to the BRICS members, but also for global development were discussed.
We asked
Debasish Nandy
, Doctor of Political Sciences, associate professor of Kanchrapara ...
During the sixth BRICS summit last week in Fortaleza, Brazil, the five BRICS countries agreed, as expected, to form both a development bank (named the New Development Bank) and a Contingency Reserve Arrangement (CRA). The agreements aim to minimize the role of traditional ...
... of isolation, not only in Europe." "One of these countries - China. President Putin's trip to China, a position of Beijing, are very important in this situation. Their positions have been also outlined by India, South Africa, Brazil - all BRICS countries. And we need to consolidate relations with those countries that do not follow the American policy of isolation "- added Pushkov.
He warned that "here and now the balance of world powers is tested," including "check ...
With leaders of the BRICS group gathering in Brazil to discuss socially inclusive growth and sustainable solutions the issue of accommodating the presence of Islamic populations within the alliance is missing from their agenda.
Avoiding an important conversation
The BRICS ...
On July 14-16, the heads of state of the five BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) will gather in Fortaleza and Brasilia for their sixth annual summit. It is, as the newly launched website proudly notes, the beginning of “the second cycle of BRICS.” What the ...
On May 27, 2014 the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR) hosted the 5th International Conference "BRICS: Cooperation for Development" with the focus on future participation of BRICS countries in global governance, fostering economic and trade relations between member-states, and networking of BRICS universities to train personnel for innovative ...
... Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the United States started its $3 trillion war in Iraq.
A few weeks after 911 a Goldman-Sachs economist (no longer associated with the firm) coined the term BRICs as a public relations ploy to promote investment in developing economies, which had been reduced to a trickle due to the economic crisis. The concept went viral and suddenly top economists, analysts and business writers were touting investment in ...
Will BRICS Make the World Safer?
In its infancy, BRICS was preoccupied with economic issues, but today the group is also eager to handle global political problems including maintaining global security without the use of force.
The BRICS countries support ...
Such was the statement of
Vadim Luko
v, Russia's Sherpa to BRICS, made at the RIAC event devoted to the second anniversary of the National Committee for BRICS Studies.
On September 12, Russian International Affairs Council hosted discussion "
Russia's BRICS Strategy: Goals and Instruments
" devoted ...
... Medvedev’s directive "On the Distribution of Subsidies between Russia’s Leading Universities to Enhance Their Competitiveness among the World’s Top Universities", Boris Yeltsin Ural Federal University (UFU) establishes SCO and BRICS Center, whose parameters were discussed at the meeting organized by the RIAC.
The working meeting took place on September 10 at the Russian International Affairs Council. Representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development, UFU and RIAC leaders,...