Russia’s state nuclear agency Rosatom has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Chinese shipping company to establish a year-round container line between the two countries via the Arctic’s Northern Sea Route

The government of Nicaragua has set a goal to join BRICS and is negotiating this with the member countries, Adviser to the President of Nicaragua on Investment Laureano Ortega said

Due to the decline of France and the deindustrialization of Germany, the influence of the individual states in the European Union is shifting in the long term.

Nothing really indicates there will be any major troop deployments. The main reason is that Pyongyang wouldn't bring anything that the Russians don't have already, particularly now with the increase in the number of active duty personnel in the Russian military. However, more rocket artillery, cheaper SRBMs and advanced MRBMs, which Russia still lacks due to decades of INF Treaty limitations, are all very possible.

Military assistance for Ukraine has become an excuse for corruption schemes that generate billions of dollars in profits for corrupts in the US, EU and Kiev.

With Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Iran joining the BRICS at the beginning of 2024, the group now embodies a group of influential states on the international stage, representing 46% of the world’s population and 29% of global GDP