BRICS, SCO summits in Ufa to be very meaty in content - Kremlin spokesman

MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. President Vladimir Putin is busy preparing for the summits of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) that will be held next week in the city of Ufa in western Urals, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday. "The president is now getting ready for the forthcoming summits of BRICS and the SCO that will take place in Ufa from July 8 through July 10," he said. "A huge number of bilateral meetings and multilateral communications formats has been scheduled (as part of and on the sidelines of the summit - TASS)," he said. "Quite naturally, preparations for them are in full swing because the programmes of the leaders’ meetings will be very expansive." Read more