Russian oil companies are ready to participate in joint projects to develop fields in Turkmenistan, the press service of the Russian government reports.

Russian economic operators may take part in the construction and operation of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline as the intra-Afghan situation stabilizes. This is stated in a statement issued on Thursday by the Russian Foreign Ministry following the results of the earlier visit to Kabul of the special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, reports TASS.

Russia and Turkmenistan are discussing a joint road project - the construction of a highway along the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said, speaking at the Russian-Turkmen business forum in Ashgabat on Thursday.

In the week before January 15, the price of bitcoin increased by 23% and statistics show that after such a sharp increase, the cryptocurrency has every chance to rise even more, by about 40% in 3 months, Bloomberg reports.

In 2022, the volume of cargo transportation from Russia through Turkmenistan along the North-South international transport corridor doubled compared to 2021, Interfax reports.

The Turkmen delegation will take part in the International Economic Forum "Russia – the Islamic World", which will be held in Kazan on May 18-20, 2023. Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Minister of Industry and Trade of the country Oleg Korobchenko, who is in Ashgabat as part of the Russian delegation participating in the Turkmen-Russian economic forum, invited Turkmenistan to the prestigious event.

Russian companies consider Turkmenistan's market to be one of the most promising, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Alexey Gruzdev said on Thursday at the Turkmen-Russian Business Forum in Ashgabat.

On Tuesday, January 17, at the auction of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, an entrepreneur from Azerbaijan purchased 55 thousand kg of dyed terry products, ORIENT correspondent reports.

The products produced in Turkmenistan can find a place on the shelves of large retail chains in Russia, Deputy Director General of the Federal Corporation for the Development of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises of the Russian Federation Nikita Bantsekin said during the Turkmen-Russian business forum in Ashgabat.

The Turkmen coffee-producing company Toýly is negotiating with French colleagues on the establishment of exports of products, the Rysgal newspaper of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan writes.