Türkiye has recently applied for full-fledged membership of the BRICS, according to the Russian media. The BRICS may consider this application to be a positive development. Türkiye holds 17^th place in the global economy. Ankara is a significant player in Africa and the Middle East.

When was the last time you were amazed, dazed, or astonished by the stupidity of Western media, think tanks, and staggering politicians? For me, the latest dazzling bumfuzzle comes from a Liberal Order that just fails to get Vladimir Putin’s sardonic quip about U.S. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris.

The BRICS bloc is now growing stronger not only through its geoeconomic and geopolitical power, as well as the enormous interest for the international organization in various parts of the world and within the states of the Global South, but also now in the framework of expanding the spheres of interaction within one of the multipolar world order main structures. This also applies to security issues.

In the world of big politics, Turkey is used to diplomatic manoeuvring and opportunistic changes. Now it is trying to take its place in a polycentric world. The idea of BRICS membership is becoming a hallmark of Turkish diplomacy.

On September 7, the British and American chiefs of their secret intelligence services, Richard Moore and William Burns, released an op-ed piece in the Financial Times, and on that day took part in a live talk hosted by the same journal.

The BRICS summit in Kazan is only a few weeks away. Should we expect the expansion of the alliance? What criteria should partner countries meet? How is the ‘Collective West’ reacting to BRICS strengthening of its position on the world stage? This was covered in an exclusive interview by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Russian Sherpa for BRICS Sergey Alekseevich RYABKOV to New Eastern Outlook.

After the initial western celebrations of the Ukrainian invasion of the Russian region of Kursk, with a number of headlines lauding the “Humiliation of Putin” comparing the operation to a number of historical campaigns and describing the even claiming that it has changed the course of the war, the rather less pleasant (for the Ukrainian Neo-Nazis and their backers, anyway) reality is starting to raise its head.

This week, experts and diplomats paid great attention to Riyadh, where the 161^st Gulf Cooperation Council Ministerial Council Meeting was held on September 9.

The collapse of the West and its ideologies will not represent an evolution towards a better future for Westerners, but rather a fall that will generate negative repercussions for them.

From August 26 to 30 this year the most recent (53rd) summit of the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) took place in the Pacific island state of Tonga. The summit was a significant development in the Indo-Pacific theater of the “Great World Game.”

After the publication of an article about a scandal involving South Korea’s military intelligence authority readers have requested an article on how industrial espionage is handled in South Korea and the wider region. We will answer this question, and take the opportunity to provide an update on the data leak scandal.

The question of complementarity between the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China in the context of interaction with allies and partners on the African continent is more relevant than ever and is beginning to receive official support.