Tag "BRICS+"

On July 6–7, 2025, the 17th BRICS Summit took place in Rio de Janeiro. For the first time in the organisation’s history, representatives of civil society from BRICS countries participated. HSE Vice Rector, Head of the BRICS Expert Council–Russia, and Co-Chair of the Russian Chapter the BRICS Civil Forum Victoria Panova attended the meeting of the bloc’s national leaders.

In May 2024, Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, hosted the BRICS+ Youth Innovation Summit, where students from HSE University represented Russia. They successfully defended their business projects and were among the top 15 speakers, winning the event. The summit was organised by the South African BRICS Youth Association (SABYA).

What are the main notions of the digital economy? Why will a nature-inspired approach help regulate network platforms more efficiently? What could a hypothetical merger between Elon Musk's business empire and the Chinese IT giant ByteDance lead to? These and other issues were discussed in Rio de Janeiro at the BRICS+ Digital Competition Forum, which was held by the BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre, the FGV Sao Paulo Law School and the Administrative Council for Economic Defense of Brazil (CADE).