... example, it is unclear how US policy will change in the event of a new administration.
Ultimately, Russia and India will have to rely on themselves and their time-tested bilateral relations, as well as on the continued development of associations such as BRICS and the SCO. Both countries can do much together to address security challenges in Eurasia and beyond. They will likely have to exercise strategic patience again—a quality they both possess in abundance.
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... the 21
st
century is too different from the 19
th
century, and it is unlikely that Russia would repeat the same policy, but ignoring the experience of the past would also be wrong. For Russia, in our assessment, relations with Brazil – a member of BRICS and the largest country in Latin America, with a stable political system and a sufficiently balanced and consistent foreign policy – are of the greatest importance in the Western Hemisphere. Cooperation and contacts with other countries should ...
... While maintaining a full-fledged political dialogue, Moscow began strengthening its ties with various players across Eurasia and went to great lengths to promote interaction within the Russia-India-China triangle, which later became the backbone of BRICS+. The territorial dispute with China was settled, and a new Russian-Chinese treaty was signed. One of the world’s longest borders underwent sweeping demilitarisation. China became a key trading partner. Russia rapidly restored key areas of cooperation ...
... Work Within International Organisations
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.
The National ...
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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 ...
