New Delhi, June 6 -- ST. PETERSBURG - The arithmetic at the end of SPIEF 2026 told a story its organizers were careful not to overstate. Anton Kobyakov, executive secretary of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum's organizing committee, announced Saturday that 1,084 agreements worth 6 trillion 642 billion rubles - approximately $89.57 billion at current exchange rates - had been signed across the four-day forum. Representatives from 142 countries attended, and total participants exceeded 24,500.

6.49 trillion rubles in 2024 and 6.48 trillion in 2025, according to TASS. That narrow band of consistency, across what Russia's government describes as the most severe external pressure in the forum's 29-year history, was the implicit...