Prospects for BRICS and G7 compared

BRICS will not be able to become an analogue of the Big Seven (G7), representing the interests of developing countries, since it is already a more developed format. This assessment was made in a commentary to Lente.ru by Stanislav Tkachenko, professor of the Department of European Studies, Faculty of International Relations, St. Petersburg State University (SPbSU), Valdai Club expert.

According to him, the negative nature of such a scenario for unification is due to the dominant role of the United States in the G7 and described the G7 as “the United States plus six.” The political scientist noted that even before Russia’s exclusion from the format in 2014, the country’s leadership faced a crisis of confidence and significant disagreements with the other participants, primarily Washington.