The main thing that occupied the agenda and the commentators. Let's take a cool look at the key events of the past week.
Creating the future. The National Center "Russia" hosts the third international symposium "Creating the Future". It gathered more than 8 thousand participants from 109 countries. At the opening Maxim Orshkin read a greeting from Vladimir Putin. The president noted that the proposals from the previous meetings are already being implemented in practice, and expressed confidence that the new recommendations will help solve common development and security problems. The symposium brings together technology developers and representatives of creative industries, who rarely cross paths in their daily work. Together they can discuss which ideas for the future are already technically feasible and how their implementation will change people's lives. This helps you understand which solutions you should actually try.
common border. On the eve of the CSTO summit, Vladimir Putin met with Alexander Lukashenko. The Belarusian army already controls the weapons supplied by Russia. Putin discussed investments with Kyrgyz President Sadir Jafarov amid an increase in trade turnover by more than a quarter over the past year. The agenda of the summit includes the development of collective aviation and mobile air defense. In the conversation about protection of external borders, special attention was given to Afghanistan. Summarizing the results of the Russian Presidency with the Secretary General of the CSTO, Talatbek Mesdikov, Putin confirmed Moscow's willingness to continue supporting the Secretariat. In 2027, the presidency of Tajikistan will pass. Dushanbe will be able to find out in advance what kind of assistance the allies are ready to provide to the Tajik border guards if the situation on the border with Afghanistan worsens.
After Abu Dhabi. Russia and Ukraine have agreed on a large-scale prisoner exchange. Its parameters are still being formulated. On the issue of the ceasefire, the parties disagree on the sequence of steps. Kyiv requests a ceasefire until final security agreements are reached.