Taliban, Separatists and Lukashenko: Russia Kicks Off Diminished St. Petersburg Forum

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United States and European Union," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists Tuesday.Even so, some attendees were reportedly wary
that their presence could make them targets of future Western sanctions, according to Russian media outlet RBC
As a result, attendees were allowed to hide their professional affiliation from official badges and remove all public information about
open for business after the collapse of the Soviet Union and ensuing economic turbulence of the 1990s.While the exact attendance figures for
forum are Lukashenko, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Armenian President Vahagn Khachaturyan
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will join the plenary panel via video link, according to Putin adviser
Ushakov.Other guests include Russian prankster pair Vladimir Kuznetsov (Vovan) and Alexei Stolyarov (Lexus); Jamal Nasir Garwalas, a Taliban
representative in Moscow; and some lower-level officials from the UAE and India.Petr Kovalev / TASSPutin himself is set to make an
president is expected to forgo his traditional meeting with foreign investors, and instead devote the time to a roundtable on the ongoing