The future of the BRICS pact

Analysis: Russia is not alone - making new friends

That Russian President Vladimir Putin is in a good mood in connection with the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, does not surprise Ivor Bennett on Sky News.

"More than two and a half years into the Ukraine war, this week he is shaking hands with not just one or two world leaders, but over 20," he writes in an analysis.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, among others, are participating in the Brics meeting. The message from the Kremlin is "loud and clear", Bennett believes.

"Instead of losing friends, Moscow has gained new ones," he writes.

Simone McCarthy on CNN is on the same track and writes that Russia is "far from being alone" despite the strong condemnations from the outside world.

Several nations represented at the summit are hoping for a change in the global balance of power. Some countries, such as Russia, China and Iran, also hope to counter the US and the West's influence over the rest of the world, according to McCarthy.

"It is this latter message that Putin and the leader of the most powerful BRICS country, Xi, will project in the coming days," she writes.

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Expert: Putin wants to paint a picture of a new world order

Vladimir Putin is using the Brics meeting in Kazan, Russia, to convey "a narrative of a new world order". That's what Stefan Ingvarsson, analyst at the Center for Eastern European Studies, says in an interview with Svenska Dagbladet.

The summit, attended by Xi Jinping, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Narendra Modi, among others, is in full swing and will end tomorrow. Ingvarsson believes that the location of the meeting, the partly Muslim city of Kazan, has been chosen to show that Russia is opening up to the south and east.

- It can be seen as a desperate attempt to improve an image when Russia is practically cut off from the West, he says.

The American think tank ISW writes that Russia will likely use the summit to "establish mechanisms" to improve the possibilities of war in Ukraine.

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Power plants and gas in focus when Putin meets Erdogan

On Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in connection with the BRICS meeting in Kazan, Russia. According to the state-controlled Russian news agency Ria, the leaders will, among other things, talk about the construction of new power plants and a hub for gas in Turkey.

SVT's Turkey correspondent Tomas Thorén says that Turkey's participation is "a controversial issue". Countries in the West have criticized Erdogan's meetings with Putin.

- For Turkey, this is seen as trying to play in both camps, he says.