SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Mikatekiso Kubayi
The BRICS bloc was dismissed by many in the beginning, with some arguing that it does not hold sufficient power to change anything, let alone contend with the global hegemons. But BRICS is not about challenging anyone. It is about fostering cooperation and collaboration to fin...
By Uriel Araujo,
Even a cursory glance at the latest headlines shows that the Global South is in the spotlight - largely due to the fact that BRICS has been gaining traction in that part of the world. The recent BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, for instance, saw the inclusion of six states (Egypt, Ar...
By Anna Koroleva
The imports of nitrogen fertilizers to Germany from Russia over the past summer increased by a gigantic 334%, reaching about 167 thousand tons. And for the entire year before that, from July 2022 to June 2023, it amounted to only 38.5 thousand tons. These figures were reported by...
By Timofei Bordachev.
The past year and a half may represent a turning point in relations between Russia and Asia. For Moscow, strengthening relations with regional powers and their economies has become not so much a choice as a necessity. The desire of the West to inflict economic and military de...
By Alexey Poroshin
The choice of six new countries to join the BRICS five is not accidental. Egypt is an old ally of Russia, which has the largest army in Africa. Russia has a long history of cooperation with Ethiopia. It is the largest state on the continent in terms of population: 123 million pe...
By Dmitry Alekseev
The mutual trade turnover of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in national and friendly currencies in 2023 will amount to 90%, the Russian Foreign Ministry predicts. The department is confident that dollars, euros and yen are unreliable currencies, and the implementation of EAE...
