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September 03, 2023

Threats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putin

  • Russia's diplomats were once a key part of President Putin's foreign policy strategy. But that has all changed. 
  • In the years leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, diplomats lost their authority, their role reduced to echoing the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric. 
  • BBC Russian asks former Western diplomats, as well as ex-Kremlin and White House insiders, how Russian diplomacy broke down.
September 03, 2023
Russian President Putin
August 23, 2023

Expansion and a common currency on agenda at BRICS summit

Leaders of some of the developing world's most important economies turned Wednesday to the main business of their summit in South Africa, a day after a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the gathering an anti-Western tinge that officials had been hoping to avoid. 
August 23, 2023
© Gianluigi Guercia, AFP
August 22, 2023

Size, population, GDP: The BRICS nations in numbers

Officials from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa gather in Johannesburg on Tuesday for a three-day BRICS summit, a five-nation club comprising 40% of the world’s population and more than 25 percent of global GDP that positions itself as an economic counterweight to the West. Almost 15 years on from the group’s founding, FRANCE 24 takes a look at the BRICS nations in numbers and their relative weight in the global economy.
August 22, 2023
Several countries have applied to join the BRICS club of nations, currently made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. © Studio graphique France Médias Monde
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