Several fresh economic statistical data, other global financial market trends and core geopolitical developments collaborate the rapidly growing size of the economy of the BRICS+ and its influence on key global economic trends and strategic geopolitical issues, compared with the fast shrinking sise and impacts of G7 on global affairs. Thus, the BRICS countries’ combined share of the world’s GDP, estimated in April 2026 at USD 77trln or 39.2% exceeded by almost 11% the combined share of the G7, valued at USD 57trln or 28.3%. Similarly, the combined BRICS economy is also growing much faster, with a growth rate forecast of 3.7–3.8% in 2025–26, compared to that of the G7’s, projected to grow by around 1.0–1.1%. The BRICS group comprises 10 countries, namely, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, the group’s founding states, as well as Egypt, Iran, the UAE, Indonesia and Ethiopia, which were later admitted into the group, all now collectively branded BRICS+. The G7 membership includes the US, UK, Germany, Japan, France, Italy and Canada. The BRICS countries and other NDB shareholders possess significant economic potential and account for more than half of the world's current population, oil/gas production and reserves and other strategically vital natural resources
Based on the current reality, Dmitriev has called on the EU and UK to purchase Russian energy more actively, since “their current collective refusal to buy hydrocarbon fuels from Russia, coupled with their other past adopted 'stupid' ideological decisions, presage extremely difficult times ahead for Europe.”
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The funds, needed for financing these programs, will come from the Government Reserve Fund. Specifically, 53.4bn of the allocated 100.4bn rubles will go to subsidizing the Family Mortgage program, which will enable banks to retain the annual interest rate on new loans, issued to citizens with children under the state subsidized mortgage program, at 6%.
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