section_path: Reception/Russia
section_name: Russia
paragraph_text: Russia
  
  In 2015, President Vladimir Putin stated that despite BRICS being a young organisation, it has already been effective. The five countries "are playing an active part in shaping a multipolar world order and developing modern models for the world’s financial and trading systems."
  
  In 2024, President Putin speaking at a BRICS forum said "BRICS is one of the key elements of the emerging multipolar world order, which increasingly reflects the interests and aspirations of the states of both the global South and the East... we are engaged in an active dialogue in the BRICS plus/outreach format, and are working to establish a category of partner states". At the Kazan summit President Putin made clear that they are not attempting to reject the dollar, but rather getting ready with alternatives to a weaponized dollar.
  
  In a briefing in October 2024 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman said that "BRICS framework is non-confrontational and constructive", and that "it is a viable alternative to a world living by someone else's, alien rules". New members have made BRICS into a stronger representative of the "Global South and East – or the Global Majority". Applications from various countries reinforces BRICS role.
  
  President Putin quoted Prime Minister Narendra Modi in saying that BRICS is not anti-western but non-western.
  
  A poll following the Kazan summit revealed that 39% of 1500 respondents had never heard about BRICS. Among those who had heard of the summit, the informal visual of the BRICS currency banknote was polled as the most unforgettable happening.
  
  In 2025, Victoria Panova, Head of the BRICS Expert Council—Russia, has stated that while BRICS aims to make a fairer world order, it "doesn’t have an aim of expansion as an aim in itself." The aim isn't to duplicate the UN's Assembly General.
  
  In March 2025, President Putin has suggested that BRICS countries could be a part of the Ukraine peace process.
  
  According to Valdai Discussion Club's Dmitry Suslov in October 2024, there are many intra-BRICS disagreements. Firstly prior cooperation and current relationship with the West is a major factor in making decisions where BRICS countries are concerned. Secondly, the speed of decision making varies with respect to making changes in economic governance, say when it concerns a new currency or settlement mechanism. Third, bilateral relations between countries such as China and India, and Saudi Arabia and Iran, have not always been amicable.