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By Rhod Mackenzie

The jubilee meeting of the Five and its adherents in Johannesburg will obviously cost Western leaders more than one sleepless night. The members of the union celebrated the 15th anniversary with landmark decisions and signals to the whole world. At the same time, the BRICS inter...

By Pepe Escobar

The Chinese President Xi Jinping defined all the major decisions embedded in the 15th BRICS summit in South Africa as “historic”. That may be seen as an understatement.
It will take time for the Global South, or Global Majority, or “Global Globe” (copyright President Lukashenko),...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The expansion of BRICS is taking place in the context of a change in the global world order, the collapse of the previous one and the process of the forming a new multipolar world, in which individual players in different regions, as well as influential organizations, one of whic...

By Evgenia Kryuchkova

The Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) has begun discussing further priorities for the development of the integration of the "five" - ​​on Thursday at a meeting of the intergovernmental council in Armenian Tsakhkadzor, the prime ministers of the participating countries considered...

By Dmitry Migunov

Diesel fuel prices are breaking global records, at least when compared to oil prices. A similar situation is observed in several parts of the world at once. The reasons for the fuel crisis were high demand for diesel in China, as well as a ban on the supply of this oil product fr...

By Rhod Mackenzie

From 2026, the largest chemical group in Germany, Europe and the world, BASF SE, will receive 800 thousand tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year from America. Contract with American energy company Cheniere Energy Inc. calculated until 2043. BASF will be one of the first re...