RUSSIA AND BRICS: SOME TRENDS AND PROSPECTS

• Main Authors: O. E. Grishin, A. S. Dukhareva
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Centre of Regional Research 2017-04-01
• Series: Problemy Postsovetskogo Prostranstva
• Subjects: brics; brazil; russia; india; china; south africa; united nations; foreign policy; new development bank; world system
• Online Access: https://www.postsovietarea.com/jour/article/view/105

At present, existing institutions of global governance, such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, are increasingly unable to cope with the tasks entrusted to them. The question is about the need to create alternative tools. And the BRICS group, which has established itself as an organization with a fast-growing economy, a reformer of international relations, can become one of them. BRICS is today an international political organization of leading countries with developing economies. The growing economic power of participating countries, their place in the world economy, a large population and rich natural resources form the basis of their influence on the international arena. This association has all the possibilities for forming an agenda of international relations, in view of the fact that the countries of the "five" are participants of the G20 and the United Nations, and Russia and the PRC are permanent members of the UN Security Council. The article analyzes the Russian position in the BRICS. Its engagement with countries belonging to the international organization. The authors analyze the priorities that need to solve it. In order to maintain an effective dialogue at the international level. Marked prospects of BRICS countries in the current global system. It identified some of the fundamental long-term factors that contribute to the rapprochement of the States Parties. Showing positive trends of further cooperation between the countries included in this alliance.Russia is now experiencing another crisis because of the situation with the West, so the BRICS for Russia is an attempt to take a worthy place in the system of international relations and use the association for the benefit of its own modernization of the economy.