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Prioritization of development drives stampede to join BRICS

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Foreign ministers of BRICS nations with Global South representatives in Cape Town on June 2. Countries such as Iran and Bangladesh are looking to join the bloc. (Handout via Reuters)

Oleg Yanovsky is a lecturer in political theory at Moscow State Institute of International Relations.

For the last 13 years, the BRICS group has been comprised of the five countries whose initials are included in the acronym: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.

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