The summit’s final document said little about the Ukraine war, but several participants were still searching for a way to end it diplomatically.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the newly expanded BRICS group showed that a “multipolar world” is being created, in a challenge to the US-dominated global order.BRICS “meets the aspirations of the main part of the international community,

Russian President Vladimir Putin has presented himself as the leader of an international coalition of states at the BRICS summit in Kazan, a city of millions on the Volga River. In the official opening photo,