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On February 22, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks with his Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov, who will arrive in Russia on a working visit. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova at a briefing on Wednesday.

This year 2022 is rich in round diplomatic dates. In April, the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan will cross the thirty-year milestone of bilateral relations as independent and sovereign states, September will mark 220 years since the establishment of the Russian Foreign Ministry, and today, February 10, marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin as an official holiday of the Russian diplomatic service - Day of the Diplomatic Worker.

In 2021, Turkmenistan supplied about 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Russia, which is twice the level of supplies in 2020. The Russian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Alexander Blokhin announced such provisional figures at a briefing for Turkmen journalists.

The traditional informal meeting of the leaders of the CIS countries will take place on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 28 in St. Petersburg, the Kremlin press service reported.

In total, supplies of vaccines against coronavirus infection from Russia to Turkmenistan amounted to about 600 thousand doses, Russian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Alexander Blokhin said during a press conference in Ashgabat.

Presidents of Turkmenistan and the Russian Federation - Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Vladimir Putin discussed via phone bilateral cooperation and also II Caspian economic forum dated to summer and VI Summit of heads of the Caspian littoral states planned for autumn which are urg...

Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Andrei Rudenko noted that relations between Moscow and Ashgabat are showing positive dynamics, which is also reflected in the increase in trade turnover. At a meeting of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs...

In Russia, the visa-free regime for Iranian tourist groups will come into force in the near future. During a weekly press conference, Russian Foreign Ministry official spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said this in response to a question of an IRNA reporter. “An Agreement on visa-free ...

The release of four Central Asian leopards to their natural habitat took place at the Caucasus Leopard Recovery Center. Among the Center’s “graduates” are kittens born in 2018 from a male Alous and a female Cheri. Two wild leopards were presented to Vladimir Putin as a gift from ...

The voting for amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation is held in Ashgabat and Turkmenbashi on Tuesday. The corrective amendments to the voting procedure were brought by the pandemic. So, at the entrance to the polling district in Ashgabat which is opened in t...