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India Today Group is set to take centre stage at the St Petersburg Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Friday, hosting the forum’s high-profile leadership plenary featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin and three other world leaders.
The session, scheduled for 5.30 pm IST and moderated by India Today Group Editor, Foreign Affairs, Geeta Mohan, will also feature Chinese Vice-President Han Zheng, Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan.
The high-profile meeting comes at a time of growing global uncertainty driven by conflicts in West Asia, shifting geopolitical alliances and changing global power equations, developments that have also underscored India’s strategic balancing in recent months.
President Putin is expected to deliver an hour-long keynote address following Mohan’s opening remarks. The other three heads of state are scheduled to speak subsequently, after which an extensive question-and-answer session moderated by Mohan is expected to continue for over an hour.
The discussion is likely to focus on shifting global power centres, trade and investment flows, energy security, BRICS cooperation, de-dollarisation, regional partnerships and the evolving geopolitical order amid ongoing global conflicts and economic realignments.
The event will be broadcast live across India Today Group platforms, including India Today TV, Aaj Tak YouTube, India Today YouTube, India Today Global YouTube, Business Today YouTube and IndiaToday.in.
The SPIEF leadership plenary is being viewed as one of the most significant geopolitical conversations of the year, bringing together key leaders from Russia, China, Central Asia and Africa at a time of intensifying global strategic recalibration.
In December last year, India Today Group aired an exclusive interaction with Putin from the Kremlin, hosted by Geeta Mohan and Anjana Om Kashyap.
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Published On:
Jun 5, 2026 16:59 IST
