Dubai-based Flydubai will resume flights to Turkmenistan from January 23, 2023. Aircrafts of the air carrier operating regular passenger flights on the Dubai-Ashgabat route will land at Ashgabat International Airport, Flydubai's Ashgabat office told Orient.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the use of the Black Sea natural gas in the amount of 540 billion cubic meters in the first quarter of 2023, RIA Novosti reports.
From January 1, 2023, Numbered personal seals of the customs authorities of Turkmenistan of a new type will be put into operation, the official website of the State Customs Service of the country reports.
In honor of the upcoming New Year, a festival of children's cartoons was held in the Ashgabat cinema concert hall "Turkmenistan", the ORIENT correspondent reports.
Russian universities are reorienting the vector of international cooperation to the countries of Central Asia. This was stated in one of the largest Russian higher education institutions — the Siberian Federal University, RIA Novosti reports.
Popular Turkish pop stars Mustafa Sandal and Irem Derici shared their impressions after the concert in Ashgabat.
The famous Russian singer JONY arrived in Ashgabat on the evening of December 26. The artist was warmly welcomed at the International Airport of the Turkmen capital, where he shared his expectations from the upcoming concert.
The details of the second stage of the construction of the city of Arkadag were announced during the working trip of the chairman of the upper house of the Turkmen parliament Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov to the new administrative center of the Ahal region, the official Turkmen press writes today.
The outgoing year 2022 was full of events that in many ways shaped a new reality and radically changed our world. The coming year 2023 will also bring with it a lot of surprises, and will reveal many questions to which answers have to be found.
On Wednesday, December 28, at the auction of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan, an entrepreneur from Afghanistan purchased hydrotreated diesel fuel of the ECO-5 brand, ORIENT correspondent reports.
The Afghan Railway Authority reported that 473,744 tons of cargo was transported by the Afghan Railway in the last week.
Russia and Turkey have already begun to work on the implementation of the project to create a gas hub in Turkey, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller said at a pre-New Year's conference call on December 28. He noted that the Russian offshore gas pipelines "Turkish Stream" and "Blue Stream" are now working confidently.
Russia is discussing the growth of gas supplies for the domestic markets of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan against the backdrop of an increase in their consumption of this type of fuel, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in an interview with TASS.
On December 27, the French government began issuing coupons for firewood to heat their homes to residents of some parts of the country. According to Ouest France, the authorities were forced to take such a measure due to the energy crisis in Europe and the sharp rise in electricity prices at the beginning of winter.
The tasks to accelerate the launch of the Uzbek-Turkmen border trade zone were assigned to responsible managers at a meeting at the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan, which took place on Wednesday, the press service of the department said.
