By Tehran Tapdigov, Baku, Azerbaijan Russian President Vladimir Putin, who visited Azerbaijan on August 18-19, discussed many issues of the region with Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev. Many intergovernmental documents were signed. After the meeting, Azerbaijan submitted an application to the organization for membership in BRICS. The fact that the Russian leader invited Aliyev to the next BRICS summit, to be ...
On June 21, 2024, the Association of Cities and Municipalities of the BRICS Countries was established in Kazan city in Russia. The founding meeting took place the day after the closing ceremony of the 2024 BRICS Games in Kazan, where more than 80 countries took part. The initiator of the Association meeting was the Mayor of Kazan, Ilsur Metshin. The ...
By Onur Sinan Güzaltan Some claim that the phrase “May you live in unusual times” is a Chinese malediction. Some say that the original Chinese saying is, “better to be a dog in times of tranquility than a human in times of chaos.” Let’s leave the truth to the linguists. Trump’s ear and maledictions What is left to us is ...
By Mehmet Perinçek We have long emphasized that the center of the global economy is shifting from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Western economists also admit this. Most recently, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has acknowledged that Asian countries are the main driving force of the global economy, while pointing to the decline of the US economy. The US is ...
By Orçun Göktürk / Beijing, China The emergence of a more equitable multipolar world order, where power is distributed among many leading states rather than dominated by a single hegemon, offers significant opportunities for Türkiye. The transition away from a Western-centered paradigm towards an integrated Eurasian identity is the most important option for Turkish foreign policy. Since the second half ...
On June 21, the founding meeting of a new organization, the Association of Cities and Municipalities of the BRICS+ countries, took place in the Russian city of Kazan. The meeting of the new body was attended by more than 200 mayors, vice-mayors and leaders of associations of municipalities of the BRICS states and cooperating countries: Russia, China, India, South Africa, ...
By Islam FaragOn August 15, 1971, US President Richard Nixon gave a television speech in which he announced the cancellation of direct international conversion from the dollar to gold. This move effectively led to the collapse of the Bretton Woods international monetary system established after World War II, under which the US dollar was convertible into gold at a rate ...
By Umur Tugay Yücel / Political Scientist BRICS is the most democratic, most egalitarian, most tolerant civilization and civilization project of the 21st century. Defining only an economic and commercial center for BRICS is missing. BRICS is an economic and commercial player as well as an unquestionably cultural actor. Because the BRICS structure is a global ocean of civilization and ...
Evidence found by archaeologists and other specialists in Western Asia shows that as far back as three millennia ago there were ties of friendship, as well as alliances and commitments to establish limits, mutual defense agreements and cooperation mechanisms between Sumerians, Egyptians, and Babylonians, Assyrians and Medea. Likewise, it is known that in Asia, Africa and America, as well as ...
On 5 April 2024, in Kaliningrad, Russian Federation, a round table was held in connection with the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Immanuel Kant. Its title: “On the importance of the principles of peaceful coexistence of states with different political systems to ensure genuine peace and sustainable security in the 21st century. Immanuel Kant’s legacy”. The ...