Putin addressed the participants of the BRICS parliamentary forum:

Putin addressed the participants of the BRICS parliamentary forum: “The topic of the current forum - the role of parliament in strengthening multilateralism for equitable global development and security - is extremely important and speaks for itself, emphasizing the nature of the global, fundamental transformations that are taking place on our planet today. And your open discussions, direct conversations between people’s representatives are fully in tune with the philosophy itself, the principles of our organization’s worldview: this includes taking into account each other’s interests, relying on democracy in international relations, respect for sovereignty, the right to individual development of everyone.” Source: Russian Head