去年3月，在俄罗斯吞并克里米亚遭到普遍谴责时，该国的金砖同盟国 — — 就连那些一直支持边界和非干预不可侵犯的国家也不例外 — — 拒绝支持联合国大会确认乌克兰统一和领土完整的决议。
Last March, amid near-universal condemnation of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the country’s BRICS counterparts – even those that had long supported the inviolability of borders and non-intervention – abstained from a UN General Assembly resolution affirming Ukraine’s unity and territorial integrity.