Based on the information provided by the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports, ORIENT presents an announcement of sports events that will take place in Turkmenistan from April 17 to 23.

Minsk has been declared the sports capital of the CIS in 2023, and next year, 2024, this status will be transferred to the Armenian city of Gyumri. This decision was made by the heads of the foreign ministries of the Commonwealth countries at a meeting in Samarkand.

Kurban Berdyev may head “Rubin” Kazan, Rusfootball.info shared this information.

The CIS intends to hold sports contests for children with disabilities. The draft of the relevant Decision was approved in Samarkand at a meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers, the press service of the Commonwealth reports.

Representatives of the transport and communication industry of Turkmenistan successfully participate in the XII Sports Contest among employees of ministries and industry departments of the country.

A fan of Argentina and Paris Saint-Germain footballer Lionel Messi, Juan Polkan, stood in front of his idol's house for 10 hours before being allowed into his residence in Paris. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Argentine news site Infobae.

French schools will introduce extra hours of sports in preparation for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris next year. This was announced by Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera and French Minister of National Education and Youth Pape Ndiaye after the Olympic and Paralympic Week, which has been held every year since Paris received the right to host competitions in 2017.

As ORIENT has already reported, hockey players from the Ak Bars Kazan club system have arrived in Ashgabat to conduct joint training camps with the national team of Turkmenistan.

Former Russian mixed martial arts fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov announced on his Instagram about his return to the sport.

The team of Turkmen students in mini-football of the Yelabuga Institute of Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University became the winner of the republican stage of the championship of the Association of Student Sports Clubs (ASSC) of Russia 2022/2023. The competitions were held from February 20 to April 1, 2023 with the participation of 16 student teams from Tatarstan.