OREANDA-NEWS. July 31, 2008. Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee met today with Murtaza Rakhimov, President of the Republic of Bashkortostan as part of the visit of Gazprom’s delegation to the Republic of Bashkortostan.

Within the meeting the parties discussed the progress in the implementation of the Agreement of Cooperation signed between Gazprom and the Government of the Republic. Special attention was paid to issues covering further development of Bashkiria’s gasification and gas supplies to consumers in 2009.