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(90,061 posts) Thu Jul 9, 2015, 10:22 AM Jul 2015

BRICS Summit Opens in Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin is meeting with leaders of emerging powers in the Russian city of Ufa for a summit widely seen as an attempt by Moscow to show it is not isolated despite its standoff with the West over Russia's role in Ukraine's conflict.

The leaders of BRICS countries -- Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa -- are expected to discuss a range of topics including the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, the economic crisis in Greece, and the terrorist threat posed by Islamic State militants.

Moscow has deepened its ties with BRICS since being hit by Western sanctions over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and its support of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

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His proposal was slapped down by the Kremlin, dismissed by the Foreign Ministry, and ridiculed by prosecutors. But Yevgeny Fyodorov persisted nevertheless.

Just hours after the Prosecutor-General's Office said that Fyodorov's appeal for an investigation into the legality of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania's independence "had no legal prospects" and was "devoid of common sense," he was on television insisting he was right.

Fyodorov, a State Duma deputy from the ruling United Russia party, told Rossiya-24 television on July 1 that the Baltic states were "illegitimate" and "sooner or later" their independence will be challenged.

"Everyone understands that a state crime took place 25 years ago," he said. "There is a principle of inevitability of punishment. Otherwise, crimes will continue forever."

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