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Time of India
20-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Seminar on Brics expansion held
T'puram: A seminar on 'BRICS Expansion and Strengthening Alliances Beyond the West' was conducted at the Russian House in the state capital on Saturday. The senior consul at the Russian Consulate General in Chennai, Sergey Azarov, who inaugurated the seminar, said the BRICS bloc is increasingly seen as a vehicle for South–South cooperation. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now The significant expansion of BRICS, with the addition of Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates, signals not just growth in membership but a deliberate realignment of international alliances. This alliance moves away from Western-centric institutions and towards a more representative global system. The honorary consul of Russia and director of the Russian House, Ratheesh C Nair, remarked that BRICS is an ideal platform for promoting a multipolar world. An expert on international relations, P Anilkumar, noted that the 17th BRICS Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, marks a critical juncture in the evolution of global power dynamics, with Russia emerging as a key architect of a multipolar world order.


The Hindu
20-07-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
BRICS bloc increasingly seen as a vehicle for South-South cooperation: Sergey Azarov
Sergey Azarov, Senior Consul at the Russian Consulate General in Chennai, has said that the BRICS bloc is increasingly seen as a vehicle for South-South cooperation. Mr. Azarov was speaking after inaugurating a seminar on the subject 'BRICS Expansion and Strengthening Alliances Beyond the West' organised here the other day under the auspices of the Russian House in Thiruvananthapuram. The significant expansion of BRICS with the addition of Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates signals not just growth in membership, but a deliberate realignment of international alliances away from Western-centric institutions and towards a more representative global system, he said. Ratheesh C. Nair, Honorary Consul of Russia and Director of the Russian House, said BRICS is an ideal platform for promoting a multipolar world. P. Anilkumar, an expert on international relations, and Kavitha Nair, Deputy Director of the Russian House, also spoke.