Putin was greeted in Turkmenistan with bread and salt

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who arrived in Turkmenistan on a two-day working visit, was met at the gangway with bread and salt and greeted in Russian, a RIA Novosti correspondent reports.

On October 8-9, Putin will take part in a meeting of the Council of CIS Heads and the Caspian Environmental Summit, which will be held in the Avaza national tourist zone on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea.

Children in national costumes were waiting for the Russian leader at the ramp. They presented Putin with flowers and presented the national bread Chorek, wrapped in a traditional Sachak tablecloth. Putin broke off a piece and tried it. The children also greeted him in Russian.