FM Sergey Lavrov Explained How Russia Envisages BRICS’ Global Role By Andrew Korybko This is Russia’s most direct debunking of the Alt-Media Community’s false perceptions about BRICS thus far. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov published an article in South Africa’s Ubuntu Magazine… Read More ›
Morocco Accused South Africa Of Acting On Behalf Of BRICS Without Its Permission By Andrew Korybko The high expectations that many folks have about this summit were because they assumed that the unprecedentedly large number of top-level guests were agreed to… Read More ›
South Africa Bungled The Optics Of Its BRICS Compromise With Russia By Andrew Korybko What Pretoria should have done was play it cool, refuse to indulge the media circus surrounding the upcoming summit, and candidly discuss everything with the bloc behind… Read More ›
South Africa Showed That BRICS Isn’t What Many Of Its Supporters Assumed By Andrew Korybko For as much as the ruling African National Congress might sincerely want to host President Putin and accelerate financial multipolarity processes through close cooperation with Russia… Read More ›
South Africa’s Deputy President Spilled The Beans About His Country’s BRICS-ICC Dilemma By Andrew Korybko None of this bodes well for bilateral ties with Russia or BRICS’ unity. The Mail & Guardian published a very interesting interview with South African Deputy President Paul… Read More ›
By Inviting Macron To BRICS Summit Does South Africa Want Putin To Boycott In Protest? By Andrew Korybko If South Africa is unable to promise that it won’t execute the ICC’s politicized arrest warrant, then its policymakers might gamble that it’s… Read More ›
The US Is Forcing South Africa To Take Sides In The New Cold War By Andrew Korybko The US Ambassador’s allegations about South Africa arming Russia can be interpreted as a pivotal development in that targeted state’s balancing act between those… Read More ›
South Africa’s Neutrality In The New Cold War Is Under Threat From Western Pressure By Andrew Korybko The larger context in which South Africa just flipflopped on its “International Criminal Court” commitments is of outsized importance not just for BRICS’ future,… Read More ›
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