“Russia sees this BRICS summit as a major PR event,” says Groot Koerkamp. An adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin also calls this “the biggest foreign event ever”.
“It is also a sneer at the G7, a Western group of rich industrial countries, to which Russia once belonged,” the correspondent continues.
There is an arrest warrant against Russian President Putin from the International Criminal Court in The Hague. But this allows Putin to demonstrate that he is not a pariah. Moreover, in this way he can demonstrate that Western sanctions have failed.
“The West has not succeeded in isolating Russia. The country stands shoulder to shoulder with the largest countries in the world. Putin likes to talk about the ‘global majority’: not only the BRICS countries themselves, but also the countries that want to work with them,” says Groot Koerkamp.
