Putin Hosts BRICS Leaders, Showing He Is Far From Isolated
- Kremlin expects more than 30 countries to attend Kazan summit
- BRICS membership has expanded, with more states seeking entry
This article is for subscribers only.
President Vladimir Putin is playing host to Russia’s biggest gathering of world leaders since the invasion of Ukraine and using the BRICS summit to show the US and its allies that he’s no pariah.
With Russian troops advancing in eastern Ukraine and evidence of growing war fatigue among some of Kyiv’s allies, the Kremlin is seizing its opportunity to cast Putin as standing up to the West in attempting to reshape the global order. The US and its Group of Seven partners dismiss the argument, though it’s a message that resonates with some countries of the emerging world.