Dialogue at the municipalities level is growing to become an integral part of the diverse cooperation tracks among the five countries. It is difficult to overestimate its contribution to building up our economic, tourist, cultural, and interpersonal ties. Exchange of experience on urban infrastructure development is just as significant

About 2 million tourists from member states of BRICS have visited Russia's St. Petersburg in 2019, Deputy Chair of the St. Petersburg Committee for Tourism Development Nana Gvichia said at the second International Municipal BRICS Forum

An annual Examiners’ Training of BRICS IP Offices was held under the Russian BRICS Chairmanship in 2020 via videoconferencing. Representatives of Rospatent and Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS) took part in the training from the Russian Side

The International BRICS Youth Business Incubator concluded. It was organized under the Russian BRICS Chairmanship by the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh) and held via videoconference

Despite the economic and geopolitical rise of non-western emerging powers, the global film industry still remains, in many ways, western-centric. The West’s hegemony in the field of cinema, among other implications, yields the U.S. and certain European countries substantial political dividends

It is time that we start thinking about shaping the contours of the post-pandemic world. The only way to make the global architecture resilient is by relying on the UN Charter, and the key principles that are well known: the sovereign equality of states, non-interference in their domestic affairs, peaceful conflict resolution and respect for international law