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Shifting BRICS

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The BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia wrapped up on Thursday.

Compared with last year’s South African bonanza, this year’s summit was a bit of a dud.

The summit didn’t see any new countries admitted as full members, though the grouping did announce 13 new BRICS “partner countries”:

Algeria
Belarus
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