The Russia's "U-turn to the East" started and turned into a strategic course long before the famous Crimean events. However, "the light at the end of the tunnel" for the BRICS transformation into the real, working union of states is far from being seen. The BRICS with its own financial system? Russian President Vladimir Putin…
| Ivan Timofeev, associate professor, MGIMO: Russian sanction history is ahead, we will have to live with sanctions for decades |





