With India’s rising power and influence in the world stage, why has South Africa not fully leveraged its BRICS relationships to advance its national and international interests as it navigates geo-political contradictions between the Global North and the Global South where the US in particular still sees itself as the global hegemon?

The BRICS grouping will create a payment system based on blockchain. The effort is part of a specific task for this year to increase the role of BRICS in the international monetary system

If Tiraspol is left hanging, surrounded by hostile NATO satellite states and promptly neutralized, it would give the political West an actual, much-needed tactical and long-term (geo)political victory over Russia. However, precisely because of the strategic importance of the area the Kremlin is extremely unlikely to budge.

The US and UK are waging an information war against India.

The Baltic state encourages the UK to resume conscription policies in order to be ready for a possible conflict against the Russian Federation.

Russia took charge of BRICS in January 2024 at a point of inflection in geopolitics and heightened tension both in and outside its ranks. As chair, Moscow aims to improve its position by strengthening multilateralism to boost global development and security and engaging more potential members. To serve India’s interests, it mustn’t do so at the expense of the bloc’s inner coherence