Putin announced: "BRICS is growing"

"BRICS already plays a significant role in the global economy not only today, but it is quite obvious that this role will only expand in the future," Putin said during a speech at the BRICS business forum, RIA Novosti reports. He pointed out that the economic growth of the BRICS countries will depend less and less on external influence or attempts to interfere in the future and added that the countries of the association are the drivers of the global economic rise