The President of Russia Vladimir Putin on the second day of his stay in Baku at the meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev will discuss the Nagorno-Karabakh issues and bilateral cooperation, and the meeting with the head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan - energy and the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic. The Russian President arrived in Baku on the last working day of the week After a Grand reception In the leadership of the Russian Federation, devoted to the national holiday event. On the evening of 12 June, He took part in the opening ceremony of the First European games, which in the future will be held once in four years. The competition will be played 253 sets of medals in 20 sports. Putin and Aliyev have plans to discuss trade and economic cooperation, political issues and the Nagorno-Karabakh issue, the documents to be signed as long as any are expected. The leaders also discussed the implementation of decisions of the 4th Caspian summit in Astrakhan, September 2014). in 2014 the volume of trade turnover between Russia and Azerbaijan reached a record level of $ 4 billion, up 12% compared with the previous year. In the 1st quarter of 2015 trade increased by 5, 8% compared with the same period of 2014 and amounted to 707 million. In the leadership of the Russian Federation emphasized That further expansion of trade exchanges between the 2 countries will help the construction of a new road bridge over the border river Samur in Accordance with the agreement 2013. As for Karabakh, it is periodically raised at the talks between Putin with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia. The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh continues since 1988, when populated mostly by Armenians of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous region said on secession from the Azerbaijan SSR. After hostilities 1992 and 1994, Azerbaijan lost oversight over Karabakh and seven surrounding districts. Nagorno-Karabakh declared independence, but is not a party to the negotiations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. The settlement of the conflict engaged in the OSCE Minsk group, which is being co-chaired by Russia, USA and France. The group also includes Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Finland and Turkey. Putin is also scheduled bilateral meeting with Erdogan, during which the presidents will discuss the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic and common projects in the energy sector, said press Secretary of Russian leader Dmitry Peskov. He said that this meeting was important." First, they (Putin and Erdogan) have not met, Russia and Turkey remain very important partners in trade and economic, investment, and partners on major projects in the most different areas. For this reason, each time at a meeting of the Directors of the countries, the agenda is very extensive, especially the meeting will be held After the past in Turkey's parliamentary elections, " said Sands. "of course, you will have to compare notes and to exchange views on the difficult situation in regional Affairs is the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic, without a doubt, this trade-economic cooperation between our 2 countries, and also questions of mutual work on large projects, as well as among them in the field of energy ", - explained the press-Secretary of the President. There remains the question of the conclusion of the intergovernmental agreement on the gas pipeline "Turkish stream" and issuing Ankara permission for the erection of the pipeline. Russia in the early winter of 2014 announced the failure of the implementation of the " South stream ", which had to pass through Bulgaria, Serbia and Hungary, in favor of a new pipeline to Turkey ( "Turkish" ). it is planned the construction of the gas pipeline capacity of 63 billion cubic meters of gas per year from Russia to Turkey across the Black sea. The pipeline length of about 1, 1 thousand kilometers will consist of 4 strands and bring to the Turkish-Greek border to 47 billion cubic meters of gas. It is planned That on the border of Turkey and Greece gas hub will be created, and EU countries are obliged on their own to implement gas transmission capacities for the further reception of this gas on its territory. currently Russia transports gas to Turkey through the pipeline " Blue stream ", laid under the Black sea, and the TRANS-Balkan gas pipeline through Ukraine. Russia and Turkey have agreed to increase capacity of Blue stream from 16 billion to 19 billion cubic meters per year. From pumping gas through Ukraine Russia wants to opt out After 2019, after the existing transit contract. in 2014, Gazprom exported to Turkey 27, 4 billion cubic meters of gas.