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🎙 Russia's Ambassador to Thailand Evgeny Tomikhin’s interview with RT(February 2, 2026) Read in full Key talking points: #BRICS 💬 Thailand has become a participant in BRICS events almost 10 years ago, since 2017, as an informal participant. <...> After the expansion of BRICS in 2024, when Russia was the Chair, and in 2025, when Indonesia joined BRICS as a full member, there is a new category — partner states, including Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia. We see that there is a strong interest from ASEAN members to have much closer exchange, contacts, and cooperation with BRICS. Hopefully, we will see more active participation and engagement of Thailand in BRICS events. <...> I am sure that the Thai friends have decided that it might be interesting for them for the future development of the Kingdom. #RussiaASEAN 💬 Southeast Asia countries, as the #ASEAN group <...> all of them are very good friends, historically, of our country, and this year we will celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the establishment of formal relations between the Russian Federation and ASEAN. Through this long period of time, we had accumulated a lot of experience, useful things. <...> We hope that our relations between Russia and ASEAN countries will develop smoothly, as before. We recognize the ASEAN centrality principle, which is one of the core elements of regional security and stability. #Thailand#Cambodia 💬 Russian representatives, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made many comments about the situation. I would like to reconfirm that Thailand, as well as Cambodia, are our good, long-time friends. Historically, we have very positive relations, so we are interested that two neighboring countries will settle down their problems peacefully through bilateral channels. <...> We really hope that the two countries will find an appropriate solution on how to resolve all the historical so-called "heritage" from the colonial times, because one of the problems is the borderline. In many places in the world during the colonial time, colonial superpowers just drew borders on the map, sometimes without any base or just the landscape situation taken into account. We hope that Thailand and Cambodia will coexist peacefully, and we will have friendly relations with both countries as before. 👉Read in full about #RussiaThailand relations