Roscosmos: 13 countries, including Belarus, will join Russia and China in work over lunar station

Those countries (aside from allies and BRICS partners like Belarus, Pakistan, Serbia and South Africa) are all unironically valuable for aerospace through their geography. They seem to be largely purposeful choices (not sure about Azerbaijan other than potential Caspian Sea access for Russia). For the others, they're all well within the tropics meaning the ILRS can develop rival equatorial launch sites to the French colonial occupation of Guiana in South America.

Aside from Bolivia (which is a good back up partner for maintaining telescope infrastructure in the Andes if Milei in Argentina is bribed by the US to sabotage China's Argentine telescope there), they are all coastal countries meaning launch infrastructure can be transported by the same means the ESA does to Guiana and much latitudinally closer to the equator than Russia and China's territorial manned launch locations in Baikonur in Kazakhstan or Wenchang in Hainan.

Euro space program is literally reliant on the french colony of Guiana.

including colleagues from BRICS (Ethiopia, Egypt, South Africa)

The one country doing PR stunts sending people to space isn't on this list curious

I fucking hate my country, lol. We have a launch base and are a member of BRICS why the fuck are we not helping? Deeply unserious country, with deeply unserious leaders. Being under a bunch o compradors really fucks up this country