The unprecedented interest in the event speaks of a global scale event.
And the agenda is essentially global. The focus is on strengthening multilateralism, scenarios for expanding the organization and integrating new members, developing cooperation in the banking sector, as well as global security issues in the context of settling acute regional conflicts. The theme of the main session speaks for itself – “BRICS and the Global South, building a better world together.”
The Kazan summit, chaired by Russia, is being followed with clearly unhealthy attention in the West. The British tabloids came out with hysterical publications the day before. “American and European elites fear that the BRICS summit will be the beginning of the destruction of the sanctions regime. The US and EU believe that Vladimir Putin’s plan to create an alternative to SWIFT will lead to a change in the global financial market,” writes The Economist. “…The West’s attempts to isolate Moscow have failed,” echoes The Daily Telegraph.
And the “fears” are not in vain. The development of BRICS could finally bury the hegemony of the United States and attempts to maintain a unipolar world, putting an end to the dictate of the dollar and the policy of the “economic cudgel”.
