MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a news conference following the BRICS summit Russia is hosting in Kazan on Thursday, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Monday.

Vladimir Putin is hosting China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian among other world leaders at Kazan meeting

As more and more countries line up to join BRICS, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is looking to use the summit to showcase an alternative world order and Russian President Vladimir Putin looks to show that he isn’t diplomatically isolated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to host a BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, aiming to demonstrate Russia's resilience in the face of Western sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine. Initially composed of Brazil,

"Naturally, such a large-scale international event will not do without holding bilateral meetings. We have a lot of them planned, I think it will not be easy for our president, but he himself expressed a desire to meet with literally all the leaders of the states who will come to

Two dozen world leaders will meet in Russia next week for a summit of the BRICS group, an alliance of emerging economies that the Kremlin hopes will challenge Western "hegemony".

Russian President Vladimir Putin will be shaking hands this week with multiple world leaders, including China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian.

BRICS summit in Kazan brings together Putin, Xi, Modi, Erdogan, and Pezeshkian, reflecting Russia's defiance of Western isolation and the bloc's growing influence. View on euronews