India’s Prime Minister Modi landed in Russia’s Kazan on Tuesday afternoon to attend the Brics summit. He will also hold bilateral talks with Russia’s Putin and Iran’s Pezeshkian. His meeting with China’s Xi is not yet confirmed.

The leaders of the world’s top emerging economies have begun arriving in the western Russian city of Kazan where president Vladimir Putin will host the 16th Brics summit, the first gathering of the bloc since its expansion last year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is to host a meeting featuring China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iran’s Masoud Pezeshkian this week, defying predictions that the war in Ukraine and an international arrest warrant would turn him into a pariah.

After the start of a special military operation on In 2022, the West imposed numerous economic sanctions on Ukraine against Russia, blocked access to the global banking system and tried to diplomatically isolate it from the rest of the world.

BRICS, which originally included Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, is expanding rapidly, with new members such as Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia joining this year. Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Malaysia have also applied for membership.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday arrived here to attend the 16th BRICS Summit, where he is likely to hold bilateral meetings, including with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Preside

During the summit, PM Modi is expected to hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from BRICS member nations and other invited leaders.

In his departure statement, PM Modi highlighted the significance of BRICS as a platform for dialogue on key global challenges.

This visit is Modi’s second visit to Russia in 2024 after he attended the 22nd India-Russia annual summit in July during his trip to Moscow. Modi said his “visit to Kazan will further reinforce the Sp