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By Nivedita Das Kundu

Introduction
The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) alliance is reshaping the world order by shifting power from the 'Global North' to the 'Global South'. Originally coined by Jim O'Neill in 2001 as BRIC, the acronym was expanded in 2010 to include South Afri...

By Timofei Bordachev.

Expectations about the role of the BRICS in world affairs are shaped independently of the will of the participants in this group: they become the product of the evolution of the entire international order in a direction whose main features we have yet to witness,

The BRICS...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said that Russia in the coming years, with the help of China, will be able to win back, and in the future, even cover the losses incurred due to the fall in gas supplies to Europe. According to his estimates, gas pipeline exports...

By Arendse Huld

China’s recovery after almost three years of stringent COVID-19 restrictions has proven successful but not without its challenges. Recovery has been steady across a range of sectors, while uneven growth has spurred the government to consider policy measures to keep the country on t...

By Rhod Mackenzie
The share of Russian oil supplies to India reached a record 46% in May, Bloomberg reports citing data from the analytical firm Kpler. The publication calls such a sharp increase in oil supplies from the Russian Federation as stunning, since until 2022 their share was less than 2%....

Several House Republicans recently wrote an open letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, urging the government not to renew China-US Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement, which is set to expire on August 27. Previously, there were reports of internal debates within the US government on...