The head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will hold dialogues with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who arrives in the capital of Russia at the opening of the new complex is the capital's Central mosque.

"There will be a dialogue of the President of the Russian Federation with Turkish President Erdogan, who will be in the capital of Russia on a working visit to participate in the opening ceremony After the restoration of the Metropolitan Cathedral mosque ", - is informed in the report of the press service of the Kremlin.

The opening of the new complex of the Metropolitan Cathedral mosque will be held on September 23, yesterday the chief of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. According to the Council of Muftis, the total area of the renovated main mosque of Russia is 18, 9 thousand sq. M. (before restoration area historical parts of the mosque was equal to 964 square meters). Besprepjatstvenno to fit inside the mosque will be able to 10 thousand people at the same time.

The previous Meeting between Putin and Erdogan was held in Baku on 13 June, where leaders come to the opening ceremony of the First European games. The meeting was closed to the press. As said on the results of the press-Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, the presidents discussed the major energy projects, as well as among them " Turkish stream ", as well as the situation in Ukraine, in addition, they reaffirmed the strategic goal to increase the trade turnover to $ 100 billion. Then Putin and Erdogan talked on the phone.


Russia and Turkey until now not have the opportunity to sign an intergovernmental agreement on construction of gas pipeline " Turkish stream ". Experts have suggested that to expedite the project intervention is required at the highest level. From the outset it was expected that the document will be signed off for 4 pipelines with a total capacity of 63 billion cubic meters, but later in the media appeared information that the parties first agree only one thread for the Turkish market with a capacity of fifteen, 75 billion cubic meters.

Energy Minister Alexander Novak on the sidelines of the Eastern economic forum, told reporters he did not expect the signing of the intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the gas pipeline "Turkish stream" by the Turkish authorities before the establishment of the new government. The head of Turkey on August 28 approved the composition of the interim government, which will run until early parliamentary elections, scheduled for November 1.

The head of "Gazprom" Alexei Miller said last week about the fact that the commissioning of the gas pipeline " Turkish stream ", originally conceived at the end of 2016, has been postponed to a later date.

The project "Turkish stream" involves the construction of a gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey across the Black sea. It was expected that the pipeline will consist of 4 strands fifteen, 75 billion cubic meters of gas each

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