Brazil's
President Dilma Rousseff, India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,
Russia's President Vladimir Putin, China's President Xi Jinping and
South African President Jacob Zuma pose for a photo after the BRICS
leader's meeting at the G20 summit on September 5, 2013 in Saint
Petersburg.(AFP Photo / Sergei Karpukhin )
Western sanctions might push Russia to deepen cooperation with BRICS
states, in particular, to strengthen its ties with China, which will
possibly turn out to be a big catastrophe for the US and the EU some
time later.
On March 18, the spokesperson for the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov,
claimed in a BBC interview that Russia would switch to new
partners in case of economic sanctions being imposed by the
European Union and the United States. He highlighted that the
modern world isn't unipolar and Russia has strong ties with other
states as well, though Russia wants to remain in good relations
with its Western partners, especially with the EU due to the
volume of deals and joint projects.
Those
“new partners” are not really new since Russia has
been closely interconnected with them for almost 13 years. This
is all about the so-called BRICS organization, consisting of
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. BRICS represents
42 percent of the world’s population and about a quarter of the
world’s economy, which means that this bloc of states is an
important global actor.
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