Russia is unique among emerging donors for being a ‘re-emerging' donor: the Soviet Union was one of the largest donor countries in the world, and Russia's period as an aid recipient was relatively brief. Russian development cooperation is driven by key security and economic priorities, as well...

Similar to the other BRICS countries (Brazil, China, India and South Africa), since 2007 Russia has been creating, or rather ‘re-creating', an international development assistance programme and has become an active global development cooperation partner. While the Soviet Union was one of the...

This concluding chapter looks across BRICS as a whole to examine differences and commonalities in development discourses, and in the structures that have emerged as a consequence of international engagements, as well as the role of the BRICS grouping’s emerging collective structures and their...