He hopes the pandemic will allow this “important forum to be held in person,” Ushakov said. With reference to the corona pandemic, Putin has only participated in many events in online format in recent months. On Tuesday, he will make his first publicly known trip abroad since the start of the war in Ukraine about four months ago, to Tajikistan, in Central Asia.
The G20 is a group of states of the main economic powers, which, in addition to the G7 countries Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Great Britain and the USA, also includes Russia, China and Saudi Arabia. The next summit is scheduled for mid-November on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo confirmed Putin’s presence at the end of April. At the time, however, the Kremlin only said that a compromise was still being considered. Because of Russia’s war against Ukraine, it was recently discussed whether the world’s largest country in terms of area should be excluded from the G20 group.