File it under bizarre politics or Russia operating in an alternative reality. Just a week after US President Joe Biden announced an Indian-born business executive, Ajay Banga, as his nominee to run the World Bank, Russia’s state-owned news agency TASS reported that Russia has launched a campaign to keep an Indian from taking the top job of the 189-member organisation.

Russia campaigns to keep an Indian from running World Bank

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Russia campaigns to keep an Indian from running World Bank