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When Russia's president welcomes leaders from a dozen countries for two separate summits in Ufa on Wednesday, there will be echoes of the 19th century Great Game. In the West, attention is likely to focus on the summit of the Brics group of emerging economies. But for Vladimir Putin much more will be at stake at the gathering of the less well known Shanghai Co-operation Organisation.

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