title: Indian–Russian bilateral relations
abstract: BRICS emerged in 2006 and since that time mutual relations inside the association became stronger. Despite this, BRICS could not be considered as an association with a significant effect on the international level due to complicated relations between participants, their geopolitical competition, and levels of development. Beginning in 2014 – after Russia had acknowledged Crimea, a peninsula that was a territory of Ukraine, as a territory of the Russian Federation – the U.S.A. and some other coun