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Despite Sanctions, Everything is Developing in Russia, Guinean Deputy Says

BRICS is an intergovernmental organization established in 2006. Russia's 2024 presidency of BRICS began with the joining of new members. Adding to Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, it now includes Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, the UAE and Saudi Arabia; the latter yet to formalize membership, although participating in BRICS meetings.
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The BRICS Summit in Kazan showed that Russia is not isolated and is developing despite sanctions pressure, Abdoulaye Kourouma, Member of the National Assembly of Guinea, told Sputnik.

"This summit is better organized than the US elections. The whole world is here. I am surprised; there are thousands of journalists here… It is not so, Russia is not isolated," Abdoulaye Kourouma stated.

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Abdoulaye Kourouma added that the sanctions had become a good opportunity for Russia's development. He remarked that he had been in Russia ten years ago, visiting Moscow, and since then a lot had changed and the country had developed significantly.

"Kazan is more beautiful than Paris. I have been there; I have traveled around both Kazan and Paris. I can guarantee this," Kourouma noted.

The BRICS Summit took place in the Russian city of Kazan from October 22 to 24.