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SPIEF & BRICS (Update)
Thread updated to Second post, June 6th
BRICS Expert Forum at SPIEF: key speakers and highlights
One of the key events on the sidelines of the SPIEF 2024 was the BRICS expert forum moderated by Director General of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent media group, Dmitry Kiselev. Three panel sessions of the forum focused on BRICS’ goals in… Continue reading
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Jun 03 2024 
Russia: BRICS after increasing global influence + Notes
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/06/03/726778/BRICS-Russia-international-influence-Ryabkov
Russia’s envoy to the BRICS says the bloc of emerging economies is after enhancing its influence on the global stage.
The group’s agenda features endeavor towards “enhancing [the level of its] influence on global decision-making [processes],” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said in Moscow on Monday, addressing the bloc’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Forum.
The diplomat hailed that… Continue reading
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May 13 2024 
The Unit – de-dollarization bombshell
De-Dollarization Bombshell: The Coming of BRICS+ Decentralized Monetary Ecosystem
This is by Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnik Globe. Before we dive in to Pepe’s reporting, all of our econmically minded and all others should understand this work. This is the set-up of that magic number that we all have been waiting for – the… Continue reading
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May 04 2024 
The Russia–Iran–China search for a new global security order
While the collective west is in the grips of an existential legitimacy crisis, the RIC is devising its own security order to protect the rest of the world from the ‘genocidals.’
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
The Hegemon has no idea what awaits the Exceptionalist mindset: China has started to decisively stir the civilizational cauldron without… Continue reading
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BRICS+: The Path to a New World Order
© Press Service of the Russian Foreign Ministry
The national collaboration between the large and growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India, and China has evolved and Its initial inclusion of South Africa contributed significantly to affording a voice for the vast continent of Africa (our common homeland, and the origin of our species-being). Its current members… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2024 
The War against the BRICS
Ania K with Larry Johnson and Pepe Escobar on a review of the Big Picture (and some details)
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Mar 15 2024 
Will BRICS launch a new world in 2024?
Ryabkov, Ushakov and Glazyev foresee a quickening of the Russian river after Putin’s spring reelection: the BRICS will create payment and settlement systems that do not depend upon the shifty “rules-based international order.”
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
“BRICS doubled its membership at the start of 2024, and faces huge tasks ahead: integrating its newest members,… Continue reading -
Feb 19 2024 
2024: A SWIFT Alternative
Amid talk of a replacement universal currency for the US Dollar, which appears long way off, there are two immediate steps to dedollarization underway, both advanced. The buying of energy in local currencies and barter, and SWIFT-like exchange mechanisms which this short video explores. 2024, under the Russian BRICS presidency, is turning into a year… Continue reading
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Jan 30 2024 
Russia Ushers in BRICS-2024 Presidency
@Sputnik Africa:
Russia opens the first meeting of BRICS Sherpas and sous-Sherpas during its presidency of the alliance in 2024
Representatives of five new members – Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – will also take part in the event, which is scheduled for January 30 – February 1 in Moscow.
One of the… Continue reading
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Jan 05 2024 
BRICS is rolling – ‘Strengthening of multilateralism for the purposes of just global development and security’
Russia’s Roscongress is hard at work setting up 82 events within the framework of the chairmanship and others as SPIEF sideline events. I expect that we will have BRICS events very frequently and sidelined with many others throughout the year.
Under Russia’s leadership it is a mini-country:
🔹 National Brands Fair and BRICS Creative Industries Forum will… Continue reading
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Jan 01 2024 
A necessary repeat – Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson published this as far as I know first at Ben Norton’s PoliticalEconomy
Note Featured Image: I don’t see that Russia has new imaging out for their presidency 2024 as yet.
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How could a BRICS+ bank and settlement currency work? Economist Michael Hudson explains: My notes follow:Economist Michael Hudson details how BRICS could create a mutual… Continue reading
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Nov 10 2023 
FM Lavrov’s video address at the 5th International Municipal BRICS+ Forum
10 November 2023 14:30
Greetings to the organisers and participants of the 5th International Municipal BRICS+ Forum.
In recent years, this format has gained a reputation as a popular platform for building cooperation between regional and municipal officials, for promoting international links and establishing mutually beneficial contacts between the business communities of the dynamically developing countries in… Continue reading
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Sep 18 2023 
BRICS – A Window to the Light? – Or the Latest Make-Believe Deception?
Is De-dollarization a Pipedream?
By Peter Koenig
During the 15th BRICS Summit, 22-24 August 2023, in Johannesburg, South Africa, chaired by South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, six new countries were admitted to the bloc. The BRICS are now called the BICS-11 and include the five original nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. The new members invited… Continue reading
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Aug 31 2023 
Does BRICS Need Its Own Currency?
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnik
The new era opened with the strategic tour de force inbuilt in the creation of BRICS 11 involves the make-or-break issue of setting up a new international economic/financial strategy.
Right at the heart of fervent discussions are the merits of designing a new BRICS currency.
Brazilian economist Paulo Nogueira Batista… Continue reading
