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The Competitive Advantages of Each of the BRICS Countries BRICS has become widely known across the world. The abbreviation signifies a group of leading regional states seeking to work together to put an end to the monopoly of the West in institutions of global governance. The addition of South ...
On June 29 – July 1, 2015, Moscow became the venue of Civil BRICS Forum held within the official program of Russia’s presidency in the organization to bring together civil society leaders and business and government members engaged in healthcare, education, culture and finances. RIAC was represented by ...
The BRICS Forum is a difficult subject of analysis within the narrow framework of studying international integration associations. BRICS does not have a structure, a development strategy or mechanisms for implementing decisions. There is much debate about ...
Good idea, bad timing? It's not clear whether the world's worst drought in over a century provided impetus for the agriculture ministers of the BRICS nations to gather in Brasilia in March and launch a manifesto designed to make the group a key player in the global food security regime. But they did. Now the world is waiting. From a moral and business ethics perspective the effort makes sense ...
Next July the Russian city of Ufa will host the BRICS summit, with the participation of President Putin and the leaders of China, India, Brazil and South Africa, in what seems further proof of how little substance there is behind certain Western allegations that Moscow has been isolated. BRICS account ...
... Vorontsov adds yet another dimension to this picture with an insight into Seoul’s vision on how to overcome its “islandness” by launching an ambitious westward project. Georgy Toloraya takes a broader look by trying to figure out how the BRICS, a forum where Russia and China work closely together, can be turned into a platform for establishing new principles of world order. Alexander Gabuyev studies contradictions between Russia and China within the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. ...
Smarter “Smokestack Industries” are essential to the future. Considered to be developing economies in the “global governance” set-up, Russia and the BRICS know that traditional mainstream media and online propaganda vehicles driven by the “PR is the new journalism” mindset dismiss the reality that iron ore and steel are essential to the future. This means the assignment of a low importance ...
... expanding movement. The Beijing meeting of Russian, Chinese and Indian foreign ministers once again proved the need for a variety of non-antagonistic approaches to global interaction. Russia and China supported India’s aspirations to join APEC, and BRICS definitely retains its role alongside the Russia-China-India trilateral format. Both Russia and China would also like to see India become a full member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. The next ministerial meeting will be held in Russia ...
Last year 9 million people contracted tuberculosis and 1.5 million died from the disease. That's bad news for the public health infrastructures of the BRICS, who account for nearly half the TB cases worldwide. At the same time, however, non government actors with global political agendas, including philanthropies, the pharmaceutical industry and speculators, seek to disrupt government funded “social ...
... Rakhmangulov, Deputy Director of the Global Government Research Centre at the Higher School of Economics’ International Organisations Research Institute and RIAC expert, and Victoria Panova, PhD in History, and regional director for Russia in the G8/G20/BRICS research group at the University of Toronto. Do you think it’s possible, given the worsening economic and political situation, especially in the Euro-Atlantic region, that the Group of Twenty summit in Brisbane could mark a breakthrough? ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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