President of Russia Vladimir Putin arrived at the Bharat Mandapam convention and exhibition centre in New Delhi, the venue for the BRICS summit, where he met with Prime Minister of the Republic of India Narendra Modi.
At the beginning of the meeting, Narendra Modi presented Vladimir Putin with a Russian-language edition of Thirukkural, a book written 2,000 years ago in India by poet and philosopher Thiruvalluvar.
On the Russian side, the meeting was attended by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, First Deputy Prime Minister and Co-Chairman of the Russian-Indian Intergovernmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation Denis Manturov, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maxim Oreshkin, Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India Denis Alipov, Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov, Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Dmitry Shugayev, Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank Vladimir Chistyukhin, Director General of the Roscosmos State Space Corporation Dmitry Bakanov, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of Sberbank German Gref, Director General of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Alexei Likhachev, and Secretary of the Presidential Commission for Strategic Development of the Fuel and Energy Sector and Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Management Board of Rosneft Igor Sechin.