Russia ‘open to working with the whole world’ – Putin

Moscow is ready to cooperate with partners across the globe and contribute to global energy and food security, the Russian president has told the BRICS Business Forum Russia is open to cooperation and doing business with “the whole world,” President Vladimir Putin has said.

This includes both Western economic powers – despite what he described as their “ugly forms of competition” – and the growing economies of the Global South and East.

“We are ready to cooperate with all our partners,” Putin told the gathering on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS summit in India, adding that they could be “old or new.” DETAILS TO FOLLOW