❗️Australian authorities are forcing an MP to resign over his Sputnik interview

Western Australia Premier Roger Cook has called for the resignation of Port Hedland councilor Adrian McRae following his interview with Russian news agency Sputnik, the ABC reported.

McRae, in an interview with Sputnik, criticized Australian and Western media for biased coverage of Russia-related events and spoke out against their current narrative which features Russia as the main enemy.

"He's an embarrassment to the town of Port Hedland. He's an embarrassment to WA… It's time for the councillor to go," Cook responded to McRae’s interview.

Earlier, McRae said that the era of free speech is ending in the West with the imposition of sanctions against Russian media, and the hope of protecting free speech remains in Russia and the BRICS countries.

McRae previously acted as an independent observer at the Russian presidential election and described the Russian electoral process as more transparent and professional than in Australia. After returning home, McRae faced a wave of criticism from Australian outlets condemning him for his positive assessment of the Russian election.

At the same time, MacRae himself noted that he considers it a “million-dollar question” why the West refuses to recognize any reviews of the Russian elections other than negative ones, even if the assessment comes from independent international observers.

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🌍🌍🌍 What’s inside BRICS Summit’s Kazan Declaration? Part 1 👉 Part 2

BRICS has adopted the final declaration of its Summit in Kazan, Russia, with plans to submit the document to the UN. Here’s what’s inside:

Need for reform of global institutions:

🔸 The Bretton Woods international financial system’s institutions, including the World Trade Organization, should be reformed to better represent developing countries’ interests.

🔸 BRICS opposes “unilateral, prohibitive, discriminatory and protectionist” measures taken under the pretext of fighting global climate change, including carbon emissions adjustment mechanisms and taxes.

🔸 BRICS supports comprehensive reform of the United Nations, including the Security Council, to make it more representative, and notes its centrality in the system of relations between nations.

New initiatives:

🔸 BRICS members recognize the potential of information and communication technologies in bridging the digital divide between nations to aid socio-economic development.

🔸 BRICS intends to transform the New Development bank to serve the needs of the 21st century.

🔸 BRICS supports the creation of a New Technology Platform to strengthen development cooperation, including by creating high-tech products using domestic technological potential to fuel “sustainable and inclusive” growth.

🔸 The organization agrees to explore the creation of an independent cross-border settlement and depository infrastructure known as BRICS Clear.

🔸 BRICS is ready to strengthen cooperation to develop medicines, including vaccines and nuclear medicine projects.

🔸 BRICS welcomes the creation a united transport and logistics platform.

🔸 The declaration supports Russia’s proposal to create a Grain Exchange to “promote rules-based trade in agricultural products and fertilizers and minimize disruptions.”

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🌍🌍🌍 What’s inside BRICS Summit’s Kazan Declaration? Part 2 👉 Part 1

Expanding cooperation:

🔸 The declaration welcomes the expanded use of national currencies for transactions between BRICS members and their trade partners.

🔸 The document highlights the importance of expanding cooperation based on common interests and further building up strategic partnerships among BRICS members, and continuing to implement the bloc’s Economic Partnership Strategy.

🔸 The bloc welcomes interest shown by countries of the Global South toward BRICS, and calls for greater participation of the least developed nations, especially in Africa, in global processes.

Opposing global crises:

🔸 The document “condemns” the illegal use of discriminatory and politically motivated sanctions and highlights their negative impact on the world economy.

🔸 BRICS is opposed to the deployment of weapons in outer space, and supports strengthening the global non-proliferation and disarmament regimes, and implementing a Security Council resolution on measures to prevent WMDs from falling into the hands of terrorists. It calls for strengthened ties between law enforcement to aid in the fight against narcotics.

🔸 Bloc members outlined their positions on the Ukrainian crisis, and took note of proposals for mediation to bring the conflict to a conclusion through negotiations.

🔸 BRICS expressed support for Palestine’s full-fledged membership in the UN.

🔸 The declaration condemns Israel’s attack on UN employees in Lebanon, and the pager terror attack of September 17.

🔸 BRICS welcomes the creation of a Haitian Transitional Presidential Council and electoral council to resolve the crisis plaguing the Caribbean nation.

🔸 BRICS expresses concern over the escalating violence and worsening humanitarian situation in Sudan, and called for a ceasefire.

🔸 The declaration criticizes the politicization of human rights, and double standards in this area.

🔸 The document expresses opposition to all forms of discrimination in sports.

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What do Russians know about the culture of BRICS countries?

Russia greeted world leaders attending the BRICS Summit in Russia’s Kazan.

Sputnik takes to the streets to find out what Russians know about the rich and diverse cultures of the BRICS nations.

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🌍🌍🌍 Putin: BRICS Summit Meetings in Kazan Were Successful

"The BRICS summit meetings in both narrow and extended formats were successfully held today, focusing on pressing global issues, cooperation in politics and security, as well as in the economic and humanitarian spheres," Putin said at the formal reception in honor of the BRICS summit in Kazan.

Putin also noted that BRICS countries adhere to the principles of peace, justice, and equality. He emphasized that these nations stand in solidarity, working towards intensified cooperation on the global stage.

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🌍🌍🌍 Highlights from the second day of the BRICS Summit in Kazan

🔸 What’s inside BRICS Summit’s Kazan Declaration?

🔸 Key statements by BRICS partners at group’s expanded summit meeting

🔸 Why BRICS is the project of a century?

🔸 Read Putin remarks on New Economic Initiatives Within BRICS

🔸 Watch the BRICS scarf that amazed journalists

🔸 Pepe Escobar: Putin-Xi-Modi talks ‘set the stage for meat of the matter’ at BRICS Summit

🔸 What do Russians know about the culture of BRICS countries?

🔸 How BRICS becomes the best opportunity for Africa

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🌍🌍🌍 BRICS Summit in Kazan proves a ‘counterbalance to the ailing G7’ – observer

“From a strategic point of view, BRICS in Kazan counterbalance the ailing G7, at a time that sees several key members of the ongoing bi-annual meeting of The Commonwealth [choosing] BRICS instead, and when the US and the EU are peddling of fear in the uncertainty of their own national and international institutions,” Paolo Raffone, director of the Brussels-based CIPI Foundation geopolitical affairs think tank, told Sputnik, commenting on the implications of the approval of the BRICS Kazan Declaration.

“The attendance by the UN Secretary general, Guterres, confirms their peaceful and cooperative intentions within the multilateral system. To the dismay of the ideological critics of BRICS no incendiary statements were heard or written,” Raffone said.

Commenting on the declaration’s points about the need to reform the United Nations and the Bretton Woods financial institutions to make them more inclusive, the observer pointed out that while such proposals have been under debate since the 1970s, only now, with the combined power of the economic and geopolitical global majority in the face of the BRICS nations, is it becoming truly possible.

“BRICS underline that the ‘system’ is not an end but a tool. Therefore, the ‘system’ should be serving all people on Earth without hindering their legitimate aspirations to preserve their identity. In this sense, BRICS oppose the dramatic twist imposed to the world institutions in late 1970s with the neoliberal ideology that sought shredding identities into the convenient market-driven categories of debtor/creditor, consumer/producer, and, of course, good/bad guys and people,” the observer summed up.

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