NEW DELHI, November 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian...
Sobyanin co-chairs the Russian-Indian commission on trade, scientific and cultural cooperation. The official part of the four-day visit will begin on Monday. During the visit, Sobyanin will meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is expected in Moscow in December.
Sobyanin is also expected to discuss joint efforts against terrorism and drug trafficking, as well as cooperation in international affairs with the country"s foreign minister, Somanahalli Mallaiah Krishna.
Cooperation in the oil and gas sphere will be on the agenda of the Russian official"s talks with Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora.
India"s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is currently taking part in Sakhalin-I, an oil and gas project off the coast of Russia"s Pacific island of the same name. It is also the owner, via subsidiary ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL), of British oil company Imperial Energy, with production licenses for fields in west Siberia"s Tomsk Region.