Islam, the hidden “I” in BRICS
... when Islamic states deal with BRICS member nations, as with the United States and the European Union, it is never a sure thing ... ... businessmen and government officials of Middle Eastern heritage in Venezuela started pushing for an OPEC organization to countervail ... ... Syria (232 million). The declared Islamic population of the Russian Federation (16.4 million) is about four times greater than ... ... circumspect about the future of the BRICS. Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov was recently quoted by international news agencies ...