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Veronika Popova won the women's 200m freestyle (1.54.01) final to become five-time national champion of the Russian Short Course Swimming Championship.

The final day of the Russian Short Course Swimming Championship in Kazan was highlighted with 6 national junior records and one national senior record set by Moscow's Svetlana Chimrova in the women's 100m butterfly event - 57.35. The silver medal in the same event went to Daria Tsvetkova of the Altai Krai (58.49), with Alina Kashinskaya of the Sverdlovsk Oblast claiming bronze (59.13).

A girl also attended the class for young footballers.

A girl also attended the class for young footballers.

K.Kosachev he disagreed with the numbers he presented himself, the more so the poll had been conducted by an American fund in the middle of a political crisis over Syria, earlier than Russian authorities had proposed their initiatives.

Turkey parliament foreign affairs commission chairman, Volkan Bozkyr, was surprised and disagreed with the figures.

Rossotrudnichestvo agency chief and forum’s Russian party chairman, Konstantin Kosachev, cited a public opinion poll, held to find out how Turks perceived Russians and Russians did Turks.

Tatarstan cooperates with Turkey in many areas, including fuel, energy, machine building, glass manufacturing, wood processing, car making and more.

Over 100 representatives from cultural and business circles, as well as public associations, and heads of state and non-government organisations in Russia and Turkey attend the meeting.