Excerpt from report by state-owned Kyrgyz Television 1 on 9 October Kyrgyzstan and Russia have been cooperating in all spheres for many years. However, they have just started developing cooperation in some spheres.

Excerpt from report by state-owned Kyrgyz news agency Kabar Kabar, 30 September: "The [Russian] Gazprom company is planning to build an underground gas storage in Kyrgyzstan's south," the deputy chairman of the executive board of Gazprom, Valeriy Golubev, has told Kyrgyz journalists during their press tour of Russia.

MOSCOW. June 10 (Interfax) - Russia's Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) and the Tajik government have signed an agreement on the general principles of geological exploration at the Rengan, Sargazon, Sarykamysh, and Western Shaambary oil and gas fields in Tajikistan.

ASHGABAT. Nov 14 (Interfax) - The reconstruction of the Central Asia - Center gas pipeline is to be completed by 2011, Gazprom's (RTS: GAZP) Deputy CEO Valery Golubev said in Ashgabat on Wednesday.

ASHGABAT. Oct 26 (Interfax) - Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow and a deputy chief executive of Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) have discussed plans to build up the Central Asian gas transmission system, the Turkmen State Information Service said.