After Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Russia’s Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone on August 27 2009, on issues including energy co-operation, Russian news agency Itar-Tass said that the two would meet when Putin went to the Polish city of Gdansk for a World War 2 commemoration.
 
The news agency said that the meeting was agreed on during the phone conversation, which took place at Bulgaria’s initiative, Bulgarian news agency Focus said.

Putin is scheduled to be in Gdansk on September 1 to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War 2, when Hitler's Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

While the initial Bulgarian Cabinet media office statement said only that Borissov and Putin had agreed to meet at soon as possible, it made no reference to a confirmed meeting. The media office subsequently confirmed to Bulgarian National Television that Itar-Tass was correct in reporting the planned Gdansk meeting.
 
The Bulgarian Cabinet media office said that Borissov and Putin had spoken on the phone, discussing the future development and strengthening of the traditionally good political relations between Bulgaria and the Russian federation.
 
Also discussed were the South Stream natural gas pipeline, the Bourgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline and the construction of the Belene nuclear power station. 
 
Bulgaria was one of the countries hardest-hit in January 2009 during the Russia – Ukraine natural gas dispute.
 
Further, the Government headed by Borissov, which came into office on July 27, has called into question the three projects named in the Cabinet statement.
 
"At the moment Bulgaria is exаmining the details of the signed agreements" Borissov was quoted as saying by Bulgarian National Radio (BNR).
 
Borissov and Putin agreed on further active talks on partner projects.
 
BNR said that Borissov suggested that the session of the Intergovernmental Working Group, which is scheduled for early November in Russia, be held in Sofia this autumn.