Putin's presence is key issue for BRICS summit Looming large at the BRICS (Brazil Russia India China and South Africa) foreign affairs ministerial meeting in Cape Town on 1 and 2 June was the question of whether the leaders' summit in August would be held in the country and whether Russian President Vladimir Putin would attend despite his indictment for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (AC Vol 64 No 3 President Putin's Africa summit in July will be key diplomatic test)...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky have agreed to separate meetings with leaders from Zambia Senegal Congo-Brazzaville Uganda and Egypt to discuss a possible plan to end the war as part of the 'peace mission' proposed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa...
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Officials in South Africa look irritated by persistent questions about how they will handle the possible attendance of Russian President Vladimir Putin at a BRICS (Brazil Russia India China and South Africa) summit which they are hosting in August...
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- SOUTH AFRICA
Vekselberg an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin is subject to US sanctions against dealing with Russia...
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- SOUTH AFRICA
This year South Africa chairs the BRICS grouping and will host its summit later this year an event due could bring Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping along with massive international attention to South Africa...
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- ERITREA
- RUSSIA
And like President Vladimir Putin's government Issayas's officials have developed a parallel offshore economy to evade sanctions but also capable of laundering vast sums generated from illicit enterprises smuggling and trafficking...
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- RUSSIA
- AFRICA
Russian officials are confident that South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa will attend President Vladimir Putin's Russia-Africa summit due to be held in late July in St Petersburg...
It resents the western view that its role in the region is nothing more than the Wagner Group run by Yevgeny Prigozhin a Vladimir Putin confidant...
It is financed directly by the Kremlin in the service of President Vladimir Putin's determination to confront France...
But the risk at that meeting which is set to be the first face-to-face encounter since the pandemic between China's Xi Jinping Russia's Vladimir Putin and US's Joe Biden is that geopolitics again push cooperations on debt and climate to the margins...
Africa Confidential understands that there will be no overt attempts to woo the President away from his refusal to condemn President Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine...