By ggablog 
World leaders are gathering in Kazan, Russia, for the 2024 BRICS summit, a three-day meeting of emerging economies that seeks to challenge Western dominance. From October 22-24, leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, including China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi, and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, will join Russian President Vladimir Putin ¹.
This summit is significant for Russia, as it’s the country’s largest diplomatic gathering since its invasion of Ukraine. Putin aims to showcase Moscow’s defiance of Western isolation and demonstrate that Russia has partners and allies. The BRICS group has expanded to include other emerging nations like Egypt, Iran, and potentially Turkey, which recently expressed interest in joining ¹.