SCO & BRICS latest news and insights
By Rhod Mackenzie
Gas prices in Europe have fallen to pre-crisis levels despite it still being the winter. However, this news is overshadowed by the fact that gas consumption in Europe has dropped to its lowest level since 1995. It is unlikely that Europe will ever return to its pre-crisis peak de...
The international financial and development institutions should be reformed to reflect the interests of the Global South, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said.While the BRICS can play an important and complementary role for developing nations, he stressed that it should not contribute to a fr...
By Rhod Mackenzie
Iran has set up a number of companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to circumvent sanctions and increase its exports to China, according to the head of the Iran-China Chamber of Commerce, Majid Reza Hariri.
"Some of Iran's exports to the UAE continue on to China. Iran has se...
By Aaryaman Nijhawan
“A large part of foreign policy today is communication,” Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said as the 9th Raisina Dialogue, an annual conference on geopolitics hosted by New Delhi, came to a close on Saturday. From regional conflicts and disruptive econ...
By Rhod Mackenzie
On the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it is both disheartening and worrying for the global economy to see the West once again ratcheting up sanctions against Russia and even extending them to third countries, rather than reflecting on and ackno...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The BRICS countries are developing a strategy to deal with the risks to the global economy posed by the high debt and budget deficits of Western countries, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
The minister recalled his experience of part...
