The Kremlin has mentioned it needs world affairs to be guided by worldwide legislation, “not on guidelines which are set by particular person states, specifically america”.
“We consider that BRICS is a prototype of multipolarity, a construction uniting the Southern and Japanese hemispheres on the rules of sovereignty and respect for one another,” Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov mentioned.
“What BRICS is doing is step by step – brick by brick – constructing a bridge to a extra democratic and simply world order,” he added.
“CRAZY GOALS”
The West believes Russia is utilizing the group to broaden its affect and promote its personal narratives concerning the Ukraine battle.
Presenting his “victory plan” to lawmakers this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned different nations may really feel emboldened if Putin wins on the battlefield in Ukraine.
“If Putin achieves his loopy targets – geopolitical, army, ideological and financial – it’ll create an amazing impression amongst different potential aggressors, significantly within the West, Indo-Pacific and Africa, that wars of aggression could possibly be useful for them as nicely,” he mentioned.
Beginning with 4 members when it was established in 2009, BRICS has since expanded to incorporate a number of different rising nations reminiscent of South Africa, Egypt and Iran.
Turkey, a NATO member with advanced ties to each Moscow and the West, introduced in early September that it additionally wished to hitch the bloc.
In response to Ushakov, all BRICS members will probably be represented in Kazan by their leaders, besides Saudi Arabia, which is able to ship its overseas minister.
The absence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Kingdom’s de facto chief, has fuelled hypothesis about disagreement between two of the world’s largest vitality heavyweights.
“It’s clear that the Kremlin wished to see the Crown Prince,” Kalachev mentioned, however added that on the entire, “the whole lot goes somewhat nicely for the Kremlin”.