🌍🌍🌍 Summit Day 2: What you need to know?

Russia’s city of Kazan is hosting the XVI BRICS Summit on October 22-24. Russian President Vladimir Putin will continue the marathon of bilateral talks on the second day of the summit, according to presidential aide Yuri Ushakov.

🔸 Putin's first bilateral meeting on October 23 will be with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, which will follow the two summit sessions. Putin is expected to discuss the long-awaited Russia-Iran strategic partnership agreement with Iran, which covers all areas of bilateral cooperation between the two sides.

🔸 The Russian president is scheduled to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Prospects for developing trade and economic ties, as well as a project to create an international gas hub in Turkiye are reportedly to be touched upon.

🔸 Putin will also hold a bilateral meeting with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali, whose country officially joined BRICS on January 1.

🔸 Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is expected to hold talks with Putin on the sidelines of the summit.

🔸 Today UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Kazan. Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with him om the sidelines of the BRICS summit on Thursday.

Among other events:

🔹 A joint photo session of the heads of delegations will take place today, according to the official summit itinerary. Delegations from about 36 countries - 22 of them represented by heads of state - and six international organizations are attending the three-day event.

🔹 There will be a restricted-format meeting, followed by an extended-format meeting of participating delegations.

🔹 An official meeting ceremony for heads of delegations participating in the Summit with a gala reception hosted by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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🔸 BRICS Summit Day 2: What you need to know?

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🇷🇺🇻🇪Putin to hold talks with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro today

Maduro arrived in Kazan earlier and said he hoped to discuss military-technical cooperation with Putin - stay tuned not to miss the upcoming livestream.

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🤝 Putin held one-on-one talks with almost all leaders who attended the BRICS summit on Tuesday, discussing the most important issues, according to Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov.

The topic of Ukraine was touched upon during Putin's informal dinner with leaders who arrived for the BRICS summit, Ushakov added.

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🇷🇺🇧🇾Russia’s state policy provides for the possibility of using nuclear weapons in response to aggression against Belarus, Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said.

In the face of Western pressure and NATO's hostile activities near the Union State's borders, Moscow and Minsk are stepping up their military cooperation.

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❗️The Russian State Duma (Russian Parliament) may ratify the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Agreement between Russia and North Korea on October 24

The document with the relevant decision of the Committee on Foreign Affairs is posted in the electronic database of the Duma.

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🌍🌍🌍 Summit meeting under the chairmanship of Putin began in Russia's Kazan

Main statements by Vladimir Putin:

🔸 Russia seeks to strengthen the authority of BRICS in the world, focus on solving global and local problems.

🔸 It would be wrong to ignore the unprecedented interest of countries of the Global South and East in BRICS expansion.

🔸 Authority and influence of BRICS on the global stage is high.

🔸 BRICS countries have enormous economic, scientific, demographic, and political potential.

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❗️Russia's Battlegroup Tsentr has liberated the settlement of Nikolaevka in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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🇷🇺🪖Key statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 510 militants in Battlegroup Zapad's area of responsibility.

▫️ Russia's Battlegroup Zapad defeated Ukrainian formations near Slavyansk in the Donetsk People's Republic.

◻️ Enemy losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Tsentr combat zone came to 450 soldiers.

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 800 troops in Battlegroup Yug's area of responsibility.

◻️ Russian Air defenses hit 14 HIMARS rockets and shot down 78 Ukrainian drones.

▫️ Russian Air defenses hit the infrastructure of military airfields, a fuel base, storage sites for unmanned boats, and drone production workshops.

◻️ The Black Sea Fleet aviation destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned boats.

◻️ Ukrainian losses amounted to more than 115 militants in Russia’s Battlegroup Vostok combat zone.

◻️ Ukrainian losses reached a total of 90 troops and two ammunition depots in Battlegroup Dnepr's area of responsibility.

◻️ Enemy losses in Russia’s Battlegroup Sever combat zone came to 100 servicemen.

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🇧🇾President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, has arrived for the BRICS Summit in Russia's Kazan

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🎥🎥 BRICS SUMMIT - DAY 2

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🗣 Putin on New Economic Initiatives Within BRICS:

🔸 The New BRICS Investment Platform is designed to bolster national economies and facilitate investments among the group's nations.

🔸 Establishing the BRICS Grain Exchange is aimed at safeguarding national markets from external interference and speculation.

🔸 Setting up a platform for fair competition is needed to promote equitable competition among BRICS member countries.

🔸 Russia suggests the creation of a separate platform for precious metals and diamonds within the BRICS framework.

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🇮🇷 President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, has called on BRICS members to take practical steps so that in the future some countries could not impose sanctions on others

The period of unipolarity in the world is coming to an end, he added.

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🌍🌍🌍 It is a Marshall Plan in reverse in which emerging and developing economies finance the developed world - President of Brazil

"BRICS has been responsible for a significant portion of global economic growth in recent decades... However, financial flows continue to flow to rich nations. It is a Marshall Plan in reverse in which emerging and developing economies finance the developed world," Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said at the BRICS Summit in Kazan, adding that "BRICS initiatives and institutions break with this logic."

He also emphasized that BRICS countries stand for "3.6 billion people who are part of dynamic markets" and represent "36% of global GDP by purchasing power parity," while having "72% of the planet's rare earths, 75% of the manganese and 50% of the graphite."

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🌍🌍🌍 Putin: Brazil's chairmanship of BRICS next year will put bloc’s leadership in good hands

Main statements by Brazilian President Lula da Silva during the BRICS summit:

🔸 Possibility of creating banking system that will reduce costs in commercial relations is being discussed.

💬 "When we talk about the banking system, we are discussing the possibility of creating a financial system that will reduce the costs for our commercial relations," Lula said, speaking via video link at a meeting of the Kazan BRICS summit.

🔸 Conflicts in Ukraine, Middle East can spread to whole world, that this should not be allowed.

💬 "It happened in Palestine, now it is moving to Lebanon, also the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Now there are two wars, which can capture the whole world, so we need to work together towards the goal. The contribution to our chairmanship will be — we will work in the field of unification, unity on equal rights. This is another chapter of our work," Lula said

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