The President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin arrived in Rio de Janeiro, where in the evening on Sunday, will visit the final match of world football championship.
From the airport he went to a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
on solemn events close to the world Cup Putin will meet with Brazilian President dilma Rousseff and with the President of the international Federation of football, Joseph S. Blatter. This meeting will be " passing the baton " from Brazil: Russia will be chairing the next world championship. The world Cup in 2018 will be held in eleven Russian cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-don, Sochi, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod and Yekaterinburg.
Merkel will visit Brazil to watch the match in which her country's team will play with the team of Argentina. At the world Cup finals in Rio de Janeiro will come and other leaders of foreign countries, for example the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
Main event of the Latin American tour of Putin will be the participation in the BRICS summit on 15-16 July, which will be held in 2 cities - Fortaleza and Brasilia.
Before the visit to Brazil Putin has already visited Cuba, where he met with Chairman of state Council and Council of Ministers Raul Castro and the leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro. Then Putin arrived in Nicaragua, where agreed with President Daniel Ortega issues of bilateral cooperation, for example, supplies of agricultural machinery From Russia and ensuring Nicaragua appropriate repair base. Also the President of the Russian Federation visited Argentina, where he held dialogues with native counterpart Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
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