Turkmen leader buys Putin a puppy for his birthday
Russia, once the main buyer of Turkmen gas, stopped buying the fuel last year due to a price dispute. China, with its growing appetite for energy, is now the main market for Turkmen gas.
Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, a flamboyant former dentist whose interests range from sports cars to noble horses, enjoys a personality cult and autocratic powers in his desert nation which sits on the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves.
The two men held talks at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, on the sidelines of a summit of ex-Soviet states.
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