September 29, 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, at a narrow format meeting of heads of the 4th Caspian Summit participating countries. From left: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov. Second row, from right: President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov.