title: The BRICs and Russian foreign and security policy
abstract: The BRICS group is a core symbol of Russian discontent with the international system. Both political and economic security are part of the story as well, particularly in the period immediately following the onset of the Ukraine crisis in 2014. This chapter tells the story of the rise and fall of BRICS in Russian foreign policy from the advent of the group in 2005 through 2017. Russia played a critical role in effecting BRICS’s transformation from economic concept to political group. Yanukovych’s