Russia welcomes Turkey’s interest towards BRICS — Kremlin

Dmitry Peskov stressed that BRICS favors "maintaining contacts with all interested states, with various formats of remaining in touch being devised now for doing that".

"We all obviously welcome the increased interest towards BRICS from our neighbors, including such important partners as Turkey. Obviously, the issue of this interest will be on the agenda of the BRICS summit, which will be chaired by Russia and which we are actively preparing for," he said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said earlier than Ankara would like to join BRICS, adding that the issue would be discussed at the group’s ministerial meeting in Nizhny Novgorod. Some European countries are against Turkey joining the EU, so the country’s authorities are considering BRICS as an alternative integration platform, he noted.

Nizhny Novgorod will host a meeting of BRICS foreign ministers on June 10-11.

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West looking to foster Ukraine-like coup in Georgia — Russian diplomat

According to Mikhail Galuzin, the US and EU countries are shamelessly putting pressure on many sovereign countries.

"We can see attempts by the Westerners to escalate the situation in Georgia ahead of the parliamentary elections set for October," he noted. "We don’t rule out that the goal is to try to implement a 'maidan-like' scenario for a change of government in order to create another hotbed of tensions near Russia’s border," Galuzin added.

"We don’t rule out that the goal is to try to implement a 'maidan-like' scenario for a change of government in order to create another hotbed of tensions near Russia’s border," Galuzin added.

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Zelensky personally calls CIS leaders, asks them to come to Switzerland, all refused — MFA

According to Mikhail Galuzin, Russia’s closest friends and allies from the CIS are well aware of the essence of this conference.

"It has nothing to do with peace," Galuzin pointed out. "It is a hasty attempt to create an anti-Russian coalition and to present Moscow with an ultimatum, to make it appear that the world supports Zelensky's unimplementable peace formula. Such ‘get-togethers’ do not contribute to a political settlement. Their holding is pointless and a priori doomed to failure," he emphasized.

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Russia supplied foods to more than 160 countries in 2023 — PM

The task of food security provision is of key value for Russia and all the countries of the Eurasian Economic Union, Mikhail Mishustin added.

Russia exported over 100 mln metric tons of foods to markets of more than 160 countries, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said.

"Our country is among top twenty among supplies of agricultural products in the global market, and the first one in a number of positions - wheat, sunflower oil, and pollack. Russian foods were on the shelves in 160 countries of the world; more than 100 mln metric tons of rations and 40 mln metric tons of fertilizers were exported," the Prime Minister said.

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A large-scale scheme for selling human organs abroad was uncovered in Ukraine .

According to police, the criminal group consisted of 11 people.

Law enforcement officials announced the exposure of a large-scale scheme for the export of human anatomical materials abroad, which included the former Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine, doctors of the Central Kiev Hospital and a number of other clinics, Ukrainian media reported

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Key Takeaways from the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum: Day One Summary.

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People close to Biden claim his mental state getting worse — WSJ

The majority of those who mentioned the president’s worsening mental state are Republicans, however, "some Democrats said that he showed his age in several of the exchanges."

At a meeting with congressional leaders in the White House in January to negotiate a deal on Ukraine aid, the US president spoke so softly at times that some participants struggled to hear him, according to five people familiar with the meeting.

Former US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said that last year, during talks to lift the debt ceiling, Biden’s demeanor "seemed to shift from one day to the next" - on some days, "he had loose and spontaneous exchanges with Republicans, and on others he mumbled and appeared to rely on notes." Two other sources had the same impression. Those who worked with Biden when he was vice-president describe him as someone "who appears slower now" and "has both good moments and bad ones."

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