Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will use today’s summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) for another personal bilateral meeting. According to Reuters, the Russian news agency TASS announced this on Tuesday. The SCO summit is being held in the Kazakh capital, Astana, until Thursday. Xi and Putin last met at their summit in Beijing in mid-May. Even then, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed that they would speak to each other again in Astana.