Turkmenistan has become a co-founder of the Association for the Development of Hockey in Islamic Countries. The agreement on the establishment of the organization was signed by representatives of 13 participating countries of the first hockey tournament of Islamic countries in Kazan, the website of the Ministry of Sports of Tatarstan reported.
Turkmenistan has joined the Additional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road concerning the Electronic Consignment Note (e-CMR). This is reported by the official website of the International Road Transport Union (IRU).
French nun Lucille Randon, the oldest person in the world, has died at the age of 118. This is reported by the media with reference to France-Presse.
The Irkutsk Region Development Corporation project and the Chongqing representative office of CRRC Corporation together with Chongqing Mammoth Brand Management plan to create a common Russian—Chinese production of electric buses, Izvestia reports.
The next round of political consultations between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan and the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs of France was held in Ashgabat on January 16-17.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met on Tuesday with Archbishop Theophylact, administrator of the parishes of the Patriarchal Deanery in Turkmenistan.
At least three leading international humanitarian organizations have partially resumed their activities in Afghanistan after receiving assurances from the Taliban that Afghan women will be able to continue working in the health sector.
Military field kitchens have been deployed in Tashkent for the population due to the ongoing cold weather, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Uzbekistan reported on Tuesday.
During the telephone conversation, the interlocutors paid special attention to the visit of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Mishustin, to Turkmenistan, which is planned for January 19-20 of this year. During this visit, it is planned to hold high-level talks, sign a number of documents, hold a large business forum and numerous bilateral meetings.
The First International Economic Forum "Russia – the Islamic World" will be held on May 18-19 in Kazan and will be held annually. The corresponding decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. The document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information and comes into force from the date of its signing, January 17, RIA Novosti reports.
The new list of foreign universities whose diplomas will be recognized in Turkmenistan includes more than 1,500 higher educational institutions from all over the world. Updated **[list](https://education.gov.tm/uploads/documents/4OUhkYGJBw5PkAGf.pdf)** The list of foreign universities and institutes for the new academic year was approved by the Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan and published on its website.
And it will be connected with the phenomenon of El Nino - the fluctuation of temperatures of the surface layer of water in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, which, according to climate scientists, will form in the coming months and exacerbate extreme weather around the globe, The Guardian reports.
The Turkmen State Institute of Economics and Development and the Armenian State University of Economics are planning to sign a memorandum of cooperation.
The creation of a new multimodal transport corridor with the participation of 4 countries - Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan was discussed in the Russian city of Astrakhan by representatives of these states. From Turkmenistan, Deputy Chairman of the "Turkmendenizderyayollary" Seyitguly Bayseidov participated in the negotiations.
From February 1, 2023, Turkmenistan Airlines flights from Russia – the cities of Moscow and Kazan, will land at the Ashgabat International Airport. This is reported by the information service of the capital airport.
