Victoria Panova joined the international forum "Woman of the Third Millennium"

Victoria Panova, Head of the BRICS Expert Council-Russia, Vice Rector at HSE University, and Russian W20 Sherpa, has joined the Board of Trustees of the Woman of the Third Millennium International Forum.

The Woman of the Third Millennium International Forum is a unique international platform that brings together leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists and public figures to discuss key issues of gender equality, sustainable development and women's leadership.

"We are deeply honored to welcome Dr. Panova to our Board of Trustees. Her participation holds particular significance for our mission, substantially elevating the Forum’s expertise while creating new opportunities to strengthen global dialogue among women leaders. Having such an accomplished professional join our council not only reflects confidence in our Forum, but provides vital resources to implement our strategic initiatives," said Alfiya Amirova, President of the International Women's Union.

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Registration is open for the BRICS International School: New Generation

We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for the "BRICS International School: The New Generation", where 100 young leaders from around the world will have a unique chance to become part of the global community of BRICSologists! 🌍

BRICS International School: New Generation is the flagship educational and outreach project of the BRICS Expert Council-Russia.

The School is held on an annual basis with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Fedederation to expand the pool of young experts-BRICSologists to form a talent pool and develop the BRICS youth track. 📖

We invite:
✔students and young scientists
✔diplomats
✔public figures, representatives of youth blocs and volunteers
✔entrepreneurs
✔journalists
from 18 to 35 years old.

Applications are accepted until September 15❕

Participants are selected on a competitive basis.

🔥 Dates: Fall 2025
📍 Location: Moscow, Russia
🖋️ Format: face-to-face
🗣️ Language: English

More detailed information can be found on the official website.

See you in Moscow! 🤍

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Russia, other BRICS members to defend their interests

BRICS countries are looking for alternatives to the dollar in order to insure themselves against abuses from the US, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in remarks about the potential of BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in standing up to financial threats emanating from Washington.

"Because there have been specific threats from Washington against BRICS, that BRICS should be fought, that BRICS undermines the interests of the United States, I will say in fairness that President Trump previously had laid out a somewhat different point of view," he said at a news conference following the SCO Foreign Ministers' Council meeting in Tianjin.

Lavrov said a gradual pivot away from the dollar is now unstoppable, with statistics confirming the trend by showing how the dollar's share in world trade has changed.

"We have, I want to stress this again, every reason to believe that #BRICS member countries are also sovereign and value this status in the global system," the minister said.

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Treaty of Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation

The Russian-Chinese Treaty of Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship and Cooperation signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Jiang Zemin on 16 July 2001 was an important milestone in the development of relations between Russia and China. This document laid the foundation for a strong partnership between the two countries based on mutual respect, trust and interests.

For Russia, this treaty has become a strategic tool in a changing international order. Cooperation with China helps Russia diversify its foreign economic ties and strengthen its position in the international arena. In the context of Western sanctions, Russia is actively developing economic and political ties with China, which contributes to the creation of a new multipolar world.

China, in turn, views Russia as a key partner in its "Belt and Road initiative". Cooperation with Russia opens up new trade routes and opportunities to increase China's influence in Asia and beyond.

For #BRICS, this partnership allows them to advance their economic interests and also strengthens the group's global position as opposed to traditional Western centres of power.

Cooperation based on this treaty continues to grow to this day, opening up new horizons for trade, economics and political interaction.

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RT spoke with Marco Fernandes, Brazilian representative at the Civil BRICS Council. He discussed Civil BRICS Council’s first meeting, emphasised the bloc’s potential to offer alternatives to Western dominance, and stressed civil society’s growing role in shaping global development paths.

📎 Link to the interview

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Ethiopian Official Ties BRICS Membership to Historic Role in Pan-African Advocacy

🌎Ethiopia’s membership in BRICS goes beyond national interest — it’s about amplifying Africa’s voice on global platforms, Melaku Mulualem, Director General at the Institute of Foreign Affairs, told Sputnik Africa.

🤝He noted that South-South cooperation allows member nations to collectively address shared challenges — distinct from those of the Global North — while highlighting Ethiopia’s historic and ongoing role in Pan-African advocacy and mutual support.

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Political analyst Unnikrishnan: Trump's statement on duties on BRICS products is absurd

The statement of US President Donald Trump on the introduction of duties on products of BRICS member countries can be considered strange and contradictory, expressed the opinion of Indian political scientist, Honorary Research Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation expert centre Nandan Unnikrishnan.

Earlier, Trump wrote in his Truth Social , that any state that supports the "anti-American" #BRICS policy will be subject to an additional duty of 10 per cent. According to him, there will be no exceptions.

"You see, it's kind of a contradictory statement because India and the US at the moment, literally this minute, are talking about a bilateral trade agreement. And those talks are going on in Washington at the moment. Well, naturally, if there is any bilateral agreement, it will be difficult for the US after that to impose any additional duties, say 10 per cent, against India, at least, and if such duties are imposed against BRICS, it cannot make an exception for India, so I think it is a strange statement," the political analyst said.

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🇧🇷 Brazilian economist Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. discussed with RT de-dollarisation and #BRICS efforts to reform the global financial system amid growing tensions with the West.

📎 Link to the interview

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BRICS International School: New Generation goes to Artek!

This year we prepared a special edition of the BRICS International School: New Generation for children! Program will all take place at the legendary Artek International Children's Center which celebrates its 🕊🕊🕊 anniversary 🎉

The program includes:
🎓 Lectures
❓ Quizzes
🛠️ Workshops
💼 Business Games

📅 Dates: 20-23 August 2025
📍 Location: Crimea, Russia
🗣️ Working Language: Russian

📎 More info about the program you can find on the BRICS International School: New Generation website

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Three BRICS Countries Among Top Five in Terms of Industrial Contribution to Economy

According to Sputnik's analysis of World Bank data for 2024:

🟠China stands as the world's leading industrial power, with its industrial sector's share of GDP rising by nearly 2% to $6.8 trillion.

🟠India, in fourth place, saw its industrial output grow by 4% to $957 billion.

🟠Russia demonstrated the strongest growth among the top ten economies, with its industrial contribution to GDP increasing by 6% immediately to $668 billion, catapulting it to the fifth spot.

The United States and Germany held the second and fourth positions, respectively.

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The popularity of vocational education in the BRICS countries is growing

The number of students choosing vocational and technical education in the BRICS countries has grown by 20% over the past four years, according to the results of a study presented on Friday at the press center of the Rossiya Segodnya media group.

"The key trend of the #BRICS countries' vocational education systems is orientation to the needs of the labor market and guaranteed employment of graduates. In Russia, this task is successfully addressed through the tools of the federal project "Professionalitet", which is aimed at training qualified specialists within priority sectors, including industry, transportation, energy, agriculture and services," said Viktor Neumyvakin, Director of the Department of State Policy in the Field of Secondary Vocational Education and Vocational Training of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science.

The main topic of the study is the impact of the vocational education system on the development of the BRICS countries' potential. It was initiated by Russia and conducted by the Institute for the Development of Vocational Education together with scientists, researchers and practitioners from the BRICS countries.

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BRICS Urban Future Forum to host participants from 35 countries

Moscow will host participants from more than 35 countries at the BRICS Urban Future Forum which will be held in the capital on 17-18 September 2025. This was announced by the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin.

"On 17-18 September on the site of Zaryadye, Moscow will host representatives of authorities, business leaders, scientific and technical community and opinion leaders from more than 35 foreign countries of the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa," the mayor wrote in his personal blog.

The forum will bring together over 320 experts to discuss priorities and strategies for urban transformation in the horizon to 2040, with a focus on the role of technology in achieving development goals.

The first forum on the future of #BRICS cities, held in 2023, attracted more than 5,000 participants, and in 2024—more than 13,000.

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How BRICS is creating a new economic reality

The BRICS economies now resemble a well-oiled industrial conveyor belt. Trade within the BRICS countries is growing three times faster than the global average, and their combined GDP has reached $31 trillion by 2024—almost a third (28%) of the global economy. According to purchasing power parity, the share of the BRICS countries in global GDP is 39 per cent. Trade turnover between the countries exceeds $10 trillion—a huge cargo flow along international logistics routes, where each country plays an important role.

For Russia, the BRICS partnership is a strategic hub, with half of the country's foreign trade passing through it. At the same time, Russia's settlements with the #BRICS countries in national currencies reach 90 per cent, which reduces dependence on traditional currency systems and strengthens economic security.

What important steps have already been taken by Russia and its BRICS partners? Answers to these and other questions in the article by the Russian Ministry of Economic Development.

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BRICS in Brazil and the voice of the Global South

The XVII BRICS Summit was held in Rio de Janeiro. Its slogan was "Strengthening the Global South's cooperation for more inclusive and sustainable governance" and was attended by the leaders of Brazil, India, South Africa, Indonesia and Ethiopia.

Was the Brazilian BRICS summit a breakthrough? Russian experts note that the meeting was fruitful, but not as bright as the Kazan summit last year. Western observers, having analysed the results of the summit, suggest that the importance of BRICS and multilateral meetings in this format is declining—due to the risks associated with harsh US criticism and threats, the absence of key figures Vladimir Putin (who joined the summit via videoconference, Russia was represented by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov) and Xi Jinping (who skipped the event for the first time) and the general impression that the summit was more of a "dress rehearsal" for the COP30 climate conference to be held in Belene in November. Commentators debate the reasons for the absence of the leaders of the two key powers, but suggest that it provided Brazil with a chance to play a major role in promoting the BRICS agenda as the "main voice of the Global South".

📎 Full text in the article by Evgenia Prokopchuk, analyst at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies at HSE University.

#NEWS #opinion #summit

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In touch with BRICS: news digest

Your quick rundown of the most important BRICS updates

✔China’s trade turnover with BRICS countries and partners exceeds $855 bln

✔Victoria Panova joined the international forum "Woman of the Third Millennium"

✔Registration is open for the BRICS International School: New Generation

✔Lavrov: Russia, other BRICS members to defend their interests

✔Unnikrishnan: Trump's statement on duties on BRICS products is absurd

✔BRICS International School: New Generation goes to Artek!

✔The popularity of vocational education in the #BRICS countries is growing

✔BRICS is creating a new economic reality

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Ryabkov: None of BRICS members seeks to replace dollar

BRICS is pivoting toward payments in national currencies, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said in an interview.

"No one in the #BRICS community is raising the issue of replacing the dollar. Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said that over the past few years we have wound up in a situation where the Russian Federation has been deprived of the opportunity to use the dollar, by and large, for very many payments due to sanctions that block that," he said.

"The necessary option for us is to look for alternatives in the form of mechanisms of mutual settlements that would be fairly resistant to external negative impact, be immune to this kind of measures from outside," the diplomat went on to say. "The alternative is to switch to settlements in national currencies. That’s the path we are taking within BRICS."

According to Ryabkov, Russia already makes more than 90% of all payments with its BRICS partners in national currencies.

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🇮🇳 Congratulations on Indian National Flag Day

The BRICS Expert Council-Russia cordially congratulates the people and Government of the Republic of India on National Flag Day!

Russia highly appreciates India's contribution to the development of mutually beneficial dialogue, strengthening economic and humanitarian cooperation, and promoting sustainable development at the global level within the #BRICS framework.

India remains our reliable and important partner, whose experience, energy and initiatives contribute to joining efforts for the common prosperity of our countries and the entire global community.

We wish India peace, prosperity and new achievements on the path of prosperity!

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