India, China and S.Africa Leaders Bolster Putin at Key Summit

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Some of Moscow’s key allies rallied around Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday on the first day of a major summit that the Kremlin hopes will show Western attempts to isolate it over the Ukraine offensive have failed.

Putin is hosting around 20 world leaders—including China’s President Xi Jinping, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan—for a three-day gathering of the BRICS group in the central city of Kazan.

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