BRICS economies now larger than G7 Putin

The Russian president says the economic group is crucial to the formation of a multipolar world

The BRICS nations have overtaken G7 states in terms of the purchasing power parity (PPP) of their populations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday in an interview with China Media Group.

"As for BRICS, at the time of the summit in Johannesburg [in August], the ratio of the economies o