Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is on a two-day visit to Moscow, has met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
The Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, is arriving in Armenia today at the invitation of Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian.
Russian and British education officials agreed on Tuesday to join efforts to create a favorable environment for cooperation between universities and research labs.
More than 200,000 people in the Russian republic of Dagestan have been left without gas supplies after a bomb attack on a gas pipeline.
Russia warned on Wednesday it could again reduce oil flows to Belarus due to an unresolved pricing dispute, which has already sparked fears of supplies cuts to Europe and pushed oil prices up.
Russia, which supplies a quarter of Europe's gas, has announced its biggest fall in production for 25 years.