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The President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the assistant of the Russian leader for International Affairs Yuri Ushakov.

Gazprom is ready to expand cooperation in the purchase of Turkmen gas on a long-term basis. Issues on this topic were discussed by President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and head of the Russian holding Alexei Miller during talks in Ashgabat on Monday.

The Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty of Turkmenistan is expected to have an official visit to Russia, Speaker of the upper house of the Russian Parliament Valentina Matvienko said during a telephone conversation with her Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on Monday.

Russia has handed over to a number of CIS countries test systems for detecting smallpox monkeys. This is reported by the Prime agency with reference to the press service of Rospotrebnadzor.

The first transit railway cargo from Russia to India arrived in Iran on Tuesday through the border crossing with Turkmenistan to officially open the eastern section of the North-South railway corridor, IRNA reports.

The Russian joint-stock company RZD Logistics launched a full-fledged container train to India for the first time through the eastern branch of the North-South corridor, the company's press service reports.

Since July, Turkmenistan airlines has increased the number of flights between Turkmenistan and Russia to four per week, according to the website of the airline's representative office in the Russian Federation.

The level of five-sided cooperation since the previous meeting of foreign ministers of the Caspian states four years ago has grown markedly, which dictates the need for us to meet more often in this format, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

More than 345,000 foreign students are currently studying in Russia and the number of quotas for them is doubling. This is with reference to the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Valery Falkov, RIA Novosti reports.

On June 27, the Moscow Exchange will start trading in the Uzbek sum, Armenian dram and South African rand on the foreign exchange market. This was reported by the Russian economic information agency Prime with reference to the trading platform.