INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
domestic level, experts say.While guests from 136 countries are expected to attend SPIEF this year, according to Putin aide Yury Ushakov,
prominent Western attendees are notably absent
also set to attend, despite the organization being formally banned in Russia
Last month, Russian officials moved toward removing the Islamist militant movement that controls Afghanistan from its list of banned
Times.Participants in the 2024 St
According to independent journalist Farida Rustamova, this will be the first time that both of his daughters speak at SPIEF.Meanwhile,
Ksenia Shoigu, the 33-year-old daughter of recently ousted Defense Minister and current Security Council head Sergei Shoigu, will moderate a
Emmanuel Macron and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had all attended SPIEF in the years before the invasion of Ukraine.Despite the
feature several European and American panelists.These include former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, who now heads a research
Petersburg State University after moving to the city in 2023, and Tara Reade, a former aide to then-U.S
Jackson Hinkle, a conservative U.S
political commentator who has previously voiced support for Putin, is also slated to appear.Putin will deliver his annual keynote address
during the forum's plenary session along with the presidents of Bolivia and Zimbabwe on Friday, the Kremlin said.On Wednesday, he is
spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.However, despite the presence of foreign guests and journalists, even pro-government experts admit the forum
and is especially popular among "the entire political and economic elite of Russia from St
Russian elite and a summer elite festival in St
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