Vladimir Putin has met with Milorad Dodik, the President of Republika Srpska, following the 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan. This is what they had to say: Putin: “Mr President, welcome to Kazan. The last time we met was not so long ago, but time flies quickly. We met in St Petersburg in June, and before […]
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Vladimir Putin has met with Nicolas Maduro, the President of Venezuela at the BRICS Summit in Kazan. This is what they had to say: Putin: “I am delighted to see you in Russia again. I remember well our previous meeting in Moscow in 2019. I am glad that you were able to come to Kazan
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Vladimir Putin has met with Cyril Ramaphosa, the President of South Africa at the BRICS Summit in Kazan. This is what they had to say: Putin: “We are delighted to welcome you all to Kazan, Russia. We are grateful for your decision to take part in the BRICS Summit. This year, Russia assumed the BRICS
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The Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin has met with the Mongolian Prime Minister Luvsannamsrain Oyun-Erdene at the annual Prime Ministerial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) currently being held in Islamabad. Russia is a founding member of the SCO, while Mongolia is an Observer nation. Mishustin said that “The Russian side is giving a
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Ministers Sergei Vershinin and Alexander Grushko met with Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Mehmet Kemal Bozay in Moscow, for consultations to discuss the implementation of strategic economic and energy projects along with regional agenda items. The Russian Foreign Ministry has said that “The two parties had a substantive exchange of opinions on key
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Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Iranian counterpart Masoud Pezeshkian in Ashgabat. Their first face-to-face meeting since Pezeshkian was elected President of Iran in July, although they had telephone conversations during this time. The talks come at a key time for Middle-Eastern relations, with Israel expanding its military aggression, Yemen attacking Western shipping in
Syria is negotiating to join BRICS, according to Bashar Jaafari, the Syrian ambassador to Russia. “We are very interested in joining BRICS and Syria is in serious negotiations to join.” he said at the “North Caucasus: New Geostrategic Opportunities” event held last week in Pyatigorsk. The annual BRICS Heads of State meeting will be held
Tajikistan’s President, Emomali Rahmon has met with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, as part of the two countries Intergovernmental Economic Cooperation Commission in Dushanbe. The Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that “The meeting addressed strengthening multi-faceted cooperation between Tajikistan and Russia. Attention was paid to expanding ties between the two countries in trade,
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The Russia-China relationship has been the focus of ongoing conjecture in the West, much of it referring to how Beijing will eventually outmanoeuvre Moscow and subsume Russia either via land grabs or financial coercion. Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, has weighed in on the debate by stating, somewhat enigmatically, that “Our friendly and good-neighbourly relations
Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov and the acting Afghan Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi have discussed trade and financial settlement processes in Russia-Afghani trade as well as plans to intensify trade and economic cooperation between the two countries, including in the energy sector, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said. Lavrov and Muttaqi met on the
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