In reality, on the first day of the summit there was a BRICS mini-summit meeting, at which Putin and Russia were put in charge of organising a future BRICS conference on investment policy, a fact you would never know about from reading the western press.(…)
Putin also had a lengthy meeting with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, whom he also sat next to during various plenaries, during which he would have been informed in detail of the Saudi approach at the forthcoming OPEC summit on 27th November 2014. That meeting the western media of course also almost completely ignored.