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It could be argued with great confidence that the BRICS economic alliance is increasingly gaining prestige on the world stage and more and more countries want to become its members, participating in the creation of a new world order based on multilateralism. At the same time, this alliance is increasingly expanding its activities, spreading it to all continents and areas of international finance. There have been reports that the BRICS is considering creating a new global payment system for international trade, which would be an alternative to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT)…

In the coming days, the BRICS Games international sports event will be held in South Africa. The event will be held from October 18 to 21, in which 450 athletes, including 34 from Russia, will partake. This event is still considered to be quite limited against the international sports scale, but perhaps it is the event which will soon become a real alternative in the international sports affairs. Especially since the reasons for such an alternative are very clear. Many in the West are already trying to attach to this event…

The word “Maldives”, for most readers will probably, firstly, mean “heaven on earth” (primarily a tourist one) and, secondly, lead to a question of perplexity: why does it appear at all (“in our crazy time”) in the publication, which discusses various aspects of the escalating situation in the geopolitical region, where the focus of the current stage of the “Big World Game” is shifting to? Nevertheless, this dwarf state with a total population of half a million people living on a group of coral islands that stretch from north…