Islam, the hidden “I” in BRICS
... and Egypt. Some businessmen and government officials of Middle Eastern heritage in Venezuela started pushing for an OPEC organization to countervail the U.S. dominated... ... Palestine Saudi Arabia and Syria (232 million). The declared Islamic population of the Russian Federation (16.4 million) is about four times greater than that of Palestine... ... Russian leader remains circumspect about the future of the BRICS. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov was recently quoted by international news agencies as saying that to manage...