A working meeting of Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Oleg Belozerov, President of Russian Railways, and Dmitry Kobylkin, Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, took place at the Gazprom headquarters today.

An initiative of the BRICS states to establish strong links between their academic communities has huge potential in terms of boosting their competitiveness globally.

At the first meeting of the BRICS nations’ space agencies, the five-member bloc agreed to set up a joint grouping of satellites and share data. Beijing has shown particular interest in purchasing Russian rocket engines.