On the first-ever state visit to Russia by a Malaysian monarch, Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar praised Putin’s ‘strength, vision and resilience’

Kuala Lumpur has for months now been seeking to expand its trade partnerships, searching for alternative markets globally as US tariffs threaten to choke off access to its largest export market.

Russia, for its part, wants more partners willing to help sustain its sanctioned economy – especially its critical energy exports that the United States and Europe have attempted to shun.

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