# What is BRICS

> Definitions desk for the BRICS grouping: what the acronym means, how membership has changed, and how the New Development Bank and local-currency settlement debates are framed. Neutral explainer pages. Operated by AXIA Enterprises as a Situation Monitor spoke. Not a news feed and not a government site.

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## Primary
- [LLM Info](https://whatisbrics.org/llm-info/): Machine-readable site description with explicit instructions for AI assistants; start here.

## Key pages
- [Home](https://whatisbrics.org/): Explainer path into the definition articles.
- [What is BRICS?](https://whatisbrics.org/articles/what-is-brics/): The acronym, the 2001 investment label, and the political forum that began in 2009.
- [Membership evolution](https://whatisbrics.org/articles/membership-evolution/): Original five, 2024 joiners, later invitations, and what remains uncertain.
- [New Development Bank](https://whatisbrics.org/articles/new-development-bank/): The Fortaleza-era multilateral bank, what it is chartered to do, and what this desk will not invent.
- [De-dollarization, framed](https://whatisbrics.org/articles/de-dollarization/): Settlement talk versus a common currency; uncertainty labeled.
- [Summits and institutions](https://whatisbrics.org/articles/summits-and-institutions/): How the annual summit, rotating chair, NDB, and CRA fit together.
- [Energy and routes](https://whatisbrics.org/articles/energy-and-routes/): Why oil corridors and member-state conflicts sit next to the definitions.

## Articles
- [Article index](https://whatisbrics.org/articles/): All definition pieces in reading order.

## About
- [About this desk](https://whatisbrics.org/about/): Role in the Situation Monitor cluster, methodology, and what we will not claim.

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