SHANA (Tehran) – Hamid Bovard, caretaker oil minister, visited the monitoring center of Russian state-owned oil company on Sunday, October 25, 2026 during a trip to Moscow for the 8th Summit of Heads of State and Government and the 28th Ministerial Meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF). He also met and held talks with Sergey Kudryashov, the company's CEO.