Russia’s ‘Global Majority’? Struggling to Find the Numbers

Submission Statement: “The Kremlin’s rallying cry to the world’s downtrodden has only been heard by the planet’s most odious regimes.” Kseniya Kirillova explains that while Russia claims to lead a global “non-Western” movement and represent the interests of the oppressed worldwide, in reality its so-called global majority seems limited to a handful of authoritarian regimes. Russia depicts itself as heading a new multi-polar world order, but analysis shows it has failed to establish alternative institutions like a BRICS development bank that could challenge Western ones.