Kazakhstan has updated the rules for issuing a permanent residence permit for foreign citizens, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Kazakh Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Search and rescue operations are continuing on the territory of Turkey in the regions affected by strong earthquakes. A summary with up-to-date information was provided to ORIENT by the Turkish Embassy in Turkmenistan.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has created two nurseries and a demonstration site to promote the implementation of the National Forest Program in Turkmenistan, according to a press release of the organization.
The residences of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in the cities of Kostanay, Aktau, Taraz, Aktobe and Atyrau are transferred to local akimats for the needs of children. The leadership of the regions will independently determine how to use the living space and what exactly will be opened in them. Such an order was given by the head of Kazakhstan, reports Tengrinews.kz.
The Russian city of St. Petersburg receives a new status of the Cultural Capital of the Commonwealth this year. The city authorities have compiled a list of upcoming events and sent it to the St. Petersburg Committee for Culture and the MFGS, the CIS Executive Committee website says.
A resident of the city of Bayramaly handed over a rare gold coin to the fund of the Mary Museum of Local Lore in Turkmenistan.
Russia and Iran have officially signed an agreement to connect their interbank payment systems. Iran's Shahr Bank and Russia's VTB Bank will lead a project to connect 158 banks and facilitate payments, investments and other joint projects, including transport.
Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov visited the Turkish Embassy in Ashgabat on Wednesday, Ambassador of the Republic to Turkmenistan Togan Oral said on social networks.
A native of Turkmenistan, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, together with colleagues from the crew of the forthcoming ISS-69 expedition - Nikolai Chub and Loral O'Hara - underwent training to work with the Soyuz MS spacecraft. The four-hour test "covered" all stages and modes of space flight, as well as a series of emergency situations.
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev instructed to allocate a million dollars for emergency assistance to Turkey, which suffered as a result of devastating earthquakes, Tengrinews reports with reference to the press service of the head of state.
Uzbekistan sent 20 modern Volkswagen Caddy ambulances to Turkmenistan in honor of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
From February 9 to 18, representatives of the shooting team of Turkmenistan will take part in a training camp and an educational seminar in Kuwait. The Asian Shooting Confederation is the organizer of the sporting events.
Turkmen athletes will represent the country in three disciplines - figure skating, short track and snow volleyball at the II Winter International Sports Games "Children of Asia", which will be held from February 23 to March 5 in the Kemerovo region (Russia).
The works of famous Broadway musicals will be performed in Ashgabat by American artists Kate Bass and Aaron Young. They will sing to the musical accompaniment of the State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rasul Klychev.
The fifth multilateral meeting of the secretaries of the security councils and national security advisers on Afghanistan will be held in Moscow on Wednesday. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the apparatus of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
