End-of-year sherpa/sous-sherpa meeting of BRICS countries under the Brazilian chairmanship

Deputy Foreign Minister and Russia’s Sherpa for BRICS Sergey Ryabkov took part (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2065247/) in the end-of-year sherpa/sous-sherpa meeting of BRICS countries under the Brazilian chairmanship in Brasília on December 11-12.

The participants reviewed this year’s cooperation outcomes. More than 260 political, economic, and humanitarian events, including the #BRICS Summit and nearly 20 ministerial meetings, took place this year.

The contribution of the Brazilian chairmanship to ensuring continuity of the BRICS strategic partnership was noted, along with progress achieved across all key areas such as politics and security, the economy and finance, and cultural and humanitarian exchanges.

The launch of the BRICS Partnership for the Elimination of Socially Determined Diseases, the adoption of leadership statements on climate finance and global governance in the field of artificial intelligence are among the year’s achievements.

Additional momentum was observed in cooperation in energy, healthcare, transport, science, and innovation.

Dialogue continued on the Russian chairmanship’s initiatives in 2024, including the creation of an independent settlement infrastructure, an investment platform, and a BRICS grain exchange.

Special emphasis was placed on the institutional development of the association and on enhancing the cooperation mechanisms’ effectiveness.

Our Indian partners outlined the key priorities of their chairmanship in 2026. In particular, they plan to focus on:

• promoting multilateralism, reforming global governance institutions,
•ensuring energy and food security,
• fostering innovation and technological cooperation,
• combatting terrorism, transnational crime, poverty, and climate change.

The meeting also featured a separate session with delegations from BRICS partner states, during which prospects for cooperation in expanded BRICS formats were discussed, as well as opportunities to strengthen solidarity on international platforms to enhance the role of the World Majority in decision-making on key international issues, including sustainable development and improvement of multilateral institutions.

Brian Berletic: US political interference is a global enterprise

This is a quick X post from Brian.  He is correct.

Why Are there No Large Media Organizations Exposing US Political Interference and Regime Change???

Why doesn’t Russian and Chinese media – located in nations that understand and have successfully combated US political subversion and capture in their own countries – have at least a small team researching who is funding people involved in protests around the world so when they report on it at Sputnik, RT, CGTN, etc. – they can actually inform people of the truth behind this type of unrest rather than just repeating/amplifying what the BBC, CNN, or VOA says?

US political interference and regime change is Washington’s ultimate super weapon – one that has destroyed multiple nations over this 21st century alone and coercing many more nations to work against their own best interests and against that of multipolarism. US political interference and capture is surrounding Russia and China with dangerous US proxies like Ukraine, the Baltics – or in China’s case – Japan, the Philippines, and even China’s own island province of Taiwan.

No amount of arms production has or can be used to stop this – only exposing it and helping nations develop the means to successfully defend against it can stop it, just as Russia and China have done domestically.

Solutions:

1. Cut off US, European, Western foundation-funding to “NGOs,” opposition groups, parties, and programs targeting education and information space/media in a targeted nation/bloc of nations. Pass national security laws that ENFORCE already existing international law under the UN Charter regarding political independence and foreign interference;

2. Replace US-based and controlled social media platforms manipulating what people inside a country sees, believes, and aspires towards with social media platforms that reflect the best interests of that nation itself. Russia and China export weapons to help nations defend their borders, shores, and skies, why not versions of social media platforms they have themselves that allow others to defend their information space as well?;

3. Create academic/professional pipelines to create human resources for national media, foreign relations, political science, administrative roles, education/teaching, and business development INDEPENDENT of Western academic institutions, programs, scholarships/fellowships and agendas. A nation’s media, foreign ministry, universities and business community should be run by people educated by and reflecting the interests of their nation, not by or in the West at their own nation’s expense;

4. Create GLOBAL social media platforms beyond the manipulation and control of US information dominance – alternatives to YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram that constitute a majority of how people around the world currently “think” they are informing themselves. This includes creating supporting services that allow the public to support alternative media (alternatives to PayPal, Patreon etc) that are beyond the US’ ability to cut off to silence opposing narratives;

5. And as mentioned above, create research teams to actually RESEARCH global events like protests and conflict to determine what is really happening and report on it accurately, rather than echoing the lies of the West usually behind such protests/conflict;

US political interference is a global enterprise – it threatens peace, stability, development, and prosperity on every inhabited continent on Earth. Yet because it takes place over long periods of time, is done through boring programs, workshops, seminars, scholarships, fellowships etc., few are interested in researching it, and fewer still are interested in learning about it.

This leaves a tremendously powerful weapon in Washington’s hands – one that is hardly noticed, poorly understood, and almost entirely undefended against. By the time this long-term process reaches critical mass and attention-grabbing violence/conflict or worse erupts – IT IS TOO LATE TO STOP IT.

There are things that can be done – things that have stopped US interference and political capture – that can be and must be applied more widely.

Multipolarism cannot prevail if nations can be captured and redirected away from it and away from their best interests, toward Washington’s interests (at their own expense) which includes burying the very idea of multipolarism under continued US hegemony.

"Gen Z" Mobs Strike Again – Target Mexico – Evidence So Far of Who is Behind it

US NED-funded media like "Animal Politico" and US NED "Democracy Award" winner and former Mexican president/millionaire Vicente Fox are openly promoting the protests "organized" on mainly… pic.twitter.com/fLSJQyfp4T

— Brian Berletic (@BrianJBerletic) November 16, 2025