Putin plays host to 36 world leaders at Brics summit in Russia

We believe that BRICS is a prototype of multipolarity, a structure uniting the Southern and Eastern hemispheres on the principles of sovereignty and respect for each other,

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said this week

A lot of the problems Russia's economy is facing are linked to cross-border trade and payments. And a lot of that is linked to the US dollar,

says Weafer