Vyacheslav Nikonov: BRICS is organization of the future

The Russian National Committee on BRICS Research (NRC) together with the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund organizes the occasion. There are 35 participants from 10 countries.

At the opening ceremony the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, Chairman of the NRC on BRICS Vyacheslav Nikonov called BRICS an "organization of the future".

"BRICS is a new format of interaction between states' leaders, between participants of a huge number of working groups and academic forums. BRICS is the organization of the future, and today we are talking about creating this future," the politician stressed.

He added that the organization should train young specialists interested in developing relations between the countries and BRICS institutions strengthening.

Nikonov highly appreciated the participants' skills. They had to pass a competition, learn much about BRICS, Russia and world politics, have a serious linguistic background, the Chairman of the NRC BRICS Board said.

Answering the journalists' question about the potential for interaction between the BRICS and Russkiy Mir Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov recalled that there are large Russian communities in all BRICS countries, so "interaction with our compatriots is crucial".

"In addition, one of the BRICS weak points is that we know more about the Western culture than about each other's culture. The Russkiy Mir Foundation can become one of the tools for Russia to represent to our partners Russian culture, Russian language and Russian literature and develop contacts essential in the modern world, "the politician said.