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Ivan Timofeev:
Escalation of EU Energy Sanctions: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Packages
The heads of state and government of member countries of international associations in which Russia participates, such as BRICS, have consistently condemned unilateral sanctions, thereby demonstrating support for an anti-sanctions alliance. The Declaration adopted in Rio de Janeiro on July 6, 2025,
following the 17
th
BRICS Summit
condemns the imposition of UCMs, which ...
On November 25, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), together with the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), held a roundtable, “Integration of Global South Countries into BRICS: The Case of Africa.”
On November 25, 2025, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), together with the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), held a roundtable, “Integration of Global South Countries ...
On November 11, 2025, MGIMO University hosted the International Academic Conference “Expanding the Horizons of BRICS Cooperation.”
On November 11, 2025, MGIMO University hosted the International Academic Conference “Expanding the Horizons of BRICS Cooperation.”
The event brought together leading experts, diplomats, and young scholars from BRICS countries ...
... is a monumental failure. Abandoning a national citizenry unable to compete in the global age is political betrayal.
Failure to identify, categorize, and digitize high-potential SMEs is economic malpractice.
Study urgently how fast China, India, and BRICS nations are mobilizing around SMEs, while the West sleeps. Observe, how the United States became the first ever largest and longest most successful economy in the world on such understanding. Where did we all go so wrong for so long.
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Institutions become a nuisance
This logic explains the growing irritation toward institutions the US once built and championed. They are now seen not as force multipliers but as bureaucratic ballast. Structures where non-Western states play leading roles – BRICS in particular - are treated with open hostility, not because of what they do, but because of what they symbolically represent: countries trying to join forces to limit American dominance. In Trump’s worldview, that is intolerable.
Paradoxically,...
On November 6 and 7, the summit “BRICS+ Brazil 2025: Opportunities and Challenges” was held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil). The event was organized jointly by the Russia–Latin America Observatory of the Pontifical Catholic University ...
... remains an admirable relic – a model from a different age. It may inspire, but it cannot be replicated under present conditions. Today, that idea survives mainly among those seeking a new balance of power outside the Western world: organizations such as BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
At the SCO summit in Tianjin this September, members again stressed respect for sovereignty as the foundation of secure and universal development. It is a reminder that the process must begin at home. Eurasian ...
... is still important to build regional connectivity clusters. This will attend to the immediate national interests of the stated involved as well as set the agenda for the post-conflict period of modernization. Valeriia Gorbacheva, Deputy Head of the BRICS Expert Council — Russia, and Igor Makarov, Head of the World Economy Department at the HSE University, represented Russia at the event as well.
In the evening Abu Dhabi hosted a panel discussion BRICS: Reshaping Global Perspectives in Turbulent ...
... resulting in a total economic boost of over a trillion dollars—and these SME would continue to keep on growing." For deeper insights into similar mobilizations, see the related feature:
Superpower Economies Are All Superpower SME Sector Economies
BRICS' Mobilization of SMEs Will Generate a Trillion Dollars in 1,000 Days
https://russiancouncil.ru/en/blogs/naseem-javed/brics-mobilization-of-aipowered-smes-will-generate-a-trillion-dollars-/
Greatest Economic Error: Calling an SME small, like declaring ...
... the ASEAN countries. In this context, Vietnam adheres to the balancing strategy and pursues cooperation with all priority partners.
Russian experts indicated Russia’s readiness to deepen relations with Vietnam both in the bilateral format and within BRICS+, the EAEU+ and the SCO+. According to them, Vietnam could claim to become a party in the Russia–China–Vietnam triangle in Eurasia. In addition, Moscow and Hanoi can develop partnership in ensuring the energy, food and financial security of ...
