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The head of the Upper House of the Turkmen Parliament, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, called the Turkmen-Chinese relations exemplary in an interview with the Chinese state media, on behalf of which questions were asked by the press attache of the Chinese Embassy, Wang Jiu.

Turkmenistan Airlines will resume regular passenger flights between Turkmenistan and Turkey from October 5, the Atavatan Turkmenistan newspaper reports with reference to the national air carrier.

Belavia will resume flights from Belarus to Turkmenistan and in the opposite direction by mid-October, the representative office of the Belarusian airline in Ashgabat told ORIENT.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov approved the decisions of the General meeting of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan on the dismissal of Sapardurdy Toyliyev from the post of President of the Academy of Sciences and the appointment of Allaberdy Ashirov as the head of the AST.

St. Petersburg plans to train more students from Turkmenistan at its universities. The city authorities will increase quotas for Turkmen students not only in St. Petersburg universities, but also in colleges. Education will be available in such areas as shipbuilding, road engineering, construction, and a number of other specialties.

President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov met with the head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov met with the Governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, who arrived in Ashgabat to celebrate the Independence Day of Turkmenistan.

On Friday, the President Serdar Berdimuhamedov met with the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region of the Russian Federation Alexey Texler, who arrived in Ashgabat on a visit as the head of the delegation of the Southern Ural.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov took part online in the opening ceremony of bus stations in the administrative centers of four regions of Turkmenistan, held on Saturday.

On Friday, President Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed a decree on the admission of 1,530 people to citizenship of Turkmenistan and a decree according to which 315 foreign citizens received a residence permit in Turkmenistan.