RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SET TO BE ABSENT FOR THE THREE DAY BRICS SUMMIT SET TO BE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Russian President Vladimir Putin will be notably absent when Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders from the BRICS group of emerging economies start a three-day summit in South Africa on Tuesday. The bloc, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is holding its first in-person meeting since before the COVID-19 pandemic, but Putin will participate…
