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By Elena Gorbacheva

After Argentina, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran officially join the BRICS next year, its combined GDP will be 37% of the world's. In addition, it will control almost 50% of world oil production and 40% of its exports. The control of energy reso...

By Timofey Bordachev

Widely known and loved by us for his paradoxical statements, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, gave his opiniion of the effectiveness of the economic war of the European Union against Russia. In the first lines of his message, he claims that “sanctions work,” and...

By Peter Skorobogaty,Alexander Smirnov and Elena Gorbacheva

The intrigue on the eve of the BRICS summit in South Africa was fundamental. The 23 states from all parts of the world that stood on the threshold of BRICS, by the very fact of being interested in an alternative platform for resolving iss...