Hanoi, June 25 -- Brazil, which is holding the rotating chair of BRICS for 2025, has officially announced Vietnam as a "partner country" of BRICS - the bloc of emerging economies advancing global cooperation and international governance reform. Prof. Dr. Georgy Toloraia, Executive Director of the National Committee for BRICS Research and Director of the Centre for Russian Strategy in Asia at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expressed his confidence that Vietnam will become a substantial and influential partner of BRICS. A long time before Vietnam became a BRICS partner, there were many articles in Russia expressing the desire for Vietnam to make a decision on this soon. Toloraia emphasised that he did not thi...