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Russia's top diplomat pledged help and military assistance while on a whirlwind tour of several countries in Africa's sub-Saharan region of Sahel this week, as Moscow seeks to grow its influence ...
30 July: Participants of the Russia-Africa summit depart from the international meeting without concrete plans to rejoin the initiative. [ 122 ] 1 August : First trio of ships from Greece, Israel and Turkey anchored in a small Ukrainian grain port in Izmail , in the Danube delta , after traversing the Black Sea under surveillance of NATO forces.
Before South Africa's admission, two BRIC summits were held, in 2009 and 2010. The first five-member BRICS summit was held in 2011 in China. The first nine-member BRICS summit was held in 2024 in Russia. The 2020, 2021, and 2022 summits were held via video-conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Attended by 49 delegations, [4] only 17 heads of state participated in the summit, with 43 previously attending in the first summit in 2019. [5] [6] The summit was attended by Yevgeny Prigozhin – leader of Wagner Group at the time – in one of his first, and final, public appearances in Russia since launching an unsuccessful rebellion. His ...
Mr Biden, at a solo news conference ending the Nato summit, said “Putin’s got a problem” because Russia has not been successful in its two-and-a-half year war against Ukraine.
A Pew Research survey of the most popular news videos on YouTube in 2011–12 found RT to be the top source with 8.5 percent of posts, 68 percent of which consisted of first-person video accounts of dramatic worldwide events, likely acquired by the network rather than created by it.
Putin emphasized "state sovereignty" and Russian willingness to offer aid or trade deals "without political or other conditions", said that "an array of Western countries are resorting to pressure, intimidation and blackmail of sovereign African governments," against which Russia was well suited to help African states push back.
Russia has nine major mountain ranges, and they are found along the southernmost regions, which share a significant portion of the Caucasus Mountains (containing Mount Elbrus, which at 5,642 m (18,510 ft) is the highest peak in Russia and Europe); [9] the Altai and Sayan Mountains in Siberia; and in the East Siberian Mountains and the Kamchatka ...