The interest in BRICS studies is growing rapidly among publishers and scholars worldwide. The topics of financial, environmental cooperation, cultural, and educational exchange are under the academic lens of the BRICS Research Institute in South Africa. Along with other areas, an increasing role of the African continent in the group is also under the focus of their studies. What are the main achievements of cooperation between BRICS countries? And what yet has to be improved? Fulufhelo Netswera, a South African scholar and the Head of the BRICS Research Institute, answered these and other questions in the BRICSterview. TV BRICS reporter: Yana Panferova

Political scientist Richard Sakwa: "BRICS is the foundation of more mature international politics"

Podcasts about history, economics, domestic politics and international relations in the BRICS countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia.What new technologies have already been introduced in the BRICS? How will the entry of new countries strengthen the position of the association? How will the BRICS expansion affect the business environment in Russia? How can we speed up the process of creating a new global settlement currency for the BRICS countries?Together with historians, scientists, sociologists, political scientists and authors of popular non-fiction, we will figure out this issue.