India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said BRICS shouldn’t project itself as an alternative to global organizations, even as founding members like Russia and China try to expand the group to challenge the US-led global order.

Sarang Shidore, director of the Global South program at the Quincy Institute, says BRICS members share enough interests to continue to collaborate.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented himself as the leader of an international coalition of states at the BRICS summit in Kazan, a city of millions on the Volga River. In the official opening photo,

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is hosting China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders at a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, part of Kremlin efforts to challenge Western global clout.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday attended the Closed Plenary Session of the 16th BRICS Summit in Russia and said India supports dialogue and diplomacy, not war. "We support dialogue and diplomacy,