Ufa officials went out of their way to prepare for the high-profile BRICS and SCO summits being held in the Russian city this week, urging residents to go on vacation, painting all the wooden houses in the city center gray and camouflaging run-down buildings behind giant banners depicting other things.
The Moscow Times: Russian city of Ufa takes drastic measures ahead of global summits
From L: Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon, Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Russian President Vladimir Putin, China's President Xi Jinping and Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov walk for their working session at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Ufa on July 10.
