Vyacheslav Gladkov said he had held a conversation on Wednesday with the heads of the Russian Volga republic of Tatarstan, North Ossetia in the North Caucasus and the Omsk Region in Siberia and that an agreement had been reach to accommodate children in those regions
"Definitely. That s the decision. They have taken a decision to expand, so Russia will be the first meeting of the expanded BRICS family," he said, answering to a reporter’s question