Tag "Reporting an event"

The 1st Blind Football International Friendly Tournament of professional teams of BRICS countries and partner nations became the last athletic event of Russia's BRICS Chairship. The competition featured eight teams from seven countries: Brazil, Russia, India, South Africa, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Turkey.

On December 8, 2024, HSE’s Pokrovka campus hosted the first HSE CS x BRICS Ideathon, organised by the Hackathon Club of the Faculty of Computer Science and the HSE Multilateral Strategic Projects Office. The event was supported by the BRICS Expert Council–Russia, which endorsed the initiative as part of HSE's activities in the BRICS Network University.

On 26-28 November 2024, Yekaterinburg hosted the closing BRICS Sherpas/Sous-Sherpas meeting under the chairship of Sergey Ryabkov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Russia’s Sherpa in BRICS.

Victoria Panova, Head of the BRICS Expert Council-Russia, Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in History, and Vice Rector at HSE University contributed an insightful article to a special edition of the International Affairs magazine. This edition is dedicated to Russia's BRICS Chairship in 2024.

The X BRICS International Youth Summit was held in Ulyanovsk on July 22–26. For the first time, the event brought together representatives of youth organizations, students, and activists from all BRICS countries, including new members of the group: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Among the attendees of the summit were representatives of the BRICS Expert Council, which was established at HSE University following an order by the Russian Government at the initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Finance. The Council performs expertise, analysis, and academic research on the most relevant issues of political, socio-economic and humanitarian cooperation among the BRICS members.

On July 3–4, Moscow hosted the IX BRICS Civil Forum, which was attended by representatives from every new member state of the group. The event was organized by the BRICS Expert Council-Russia, in line with the official calendar of events for Russia’s BRICS Chairship in 2024. This Forum became a landmark event, marking an important milestone in the institutionalization of the BRICS civil society process under Russia's Chairship.

On July 3–4, 2024, the IX BRICS Civil Forum was held in Moscow for the first time since the association was expanded by five new countries in January 2024. Participants emphasised the importance of personal interaction between public figures, civil activists, as well as the work they do to strengthen and enrich friendly relations between BRICS countries, based on mutual respect. The forum was organised by the BRICS Expert Council–Russia, which is established at the HSE University.

A meeting of the BRICS Coordination Committee on Antimonopoly Policy was held in Geneva as part of Russia's BRICS Chairship in 2024. The meeting participants supported a project to launch a BRICS Interstate Platform on Fair Competition, developed by the International BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre of HSE University and presented by the FAS of Russia as an initiative of the Russian Chairship.