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Vladimir Putin to visit India in September for BRICS Summit. All details inside
Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit India on September 12 and 13 to attend the BRICS Summit, the country's Embassy in South Africa confirmed on Tuesday.
This will mark Putin's second visit to India within a year.
He had last visited India to attend the 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit in December 2025.
It was Putin's first visit to the South Asian country since the conflict against Ukraine began in 2022.
Citing a Kremlin aide, the Embassy wrote on X, "President of Russia Vladimir #Putin will attend the #BRICS summit in New Delhi on September 12-13 - Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov."
⚡️President of Russia Vladimir #Putin will attend the #BRICS summit in New Delhi on September 12-13 - Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov pic.twitter.com/WCrrf0EQRC
— Russian Embassy in South Africa 🇷🇺 (@EmbassyofRussia) May 19, 2026
Putin will visit India just days after Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov visited New Delhi for a high-stakes meeting of BRICS foreign ministers.
What is BRICS?
BRICS brings together eleven major emerging markets and developing countries of the world: Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and United Arab Emirates. It serves as a useful platform for consultation and cooperation on contemporary issues having global as well as regional significance, and issues of global political and economic governance.
BRIC was formalised at the first meeting of BRIC Foreign Ministers on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York in 2006. The inaugural BRIC Summit was convened in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in 2009.
It was agreed to expand BRIC into BRICS with the inclusion of South Africa at the BRIC Foreign Ministers’ meeting in New York in 2010. Accordingly, South Africa attended the 3rd BRICS Summit in Sanya in 2011.
Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and UAE became full member of BRICS from January 2024 and Indonesia in January 2025.
Belarus, Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Cuba, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan and Vietnam joined BRICS as Partner Countries in 2025.
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