An official ceremony of launching a direct regular air service by Turkmenistan Airlines national air company was held at Pulkovo-1 airport in St Petersburg on 26 March.
At a meeting in Kremlin on 25 March, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Dmitriy Medvedev singled out trade and economic fields as priority areas of cooperation between Turkmenistan and Russia.
Russian company "Center of financial technologies" told about the plans to introduce money transfer system "Golden crown" to Uzbekistan banking sphere, reported "Poitaht" radio.
Amount of cas in irculation fell by 1.8% to 701.6 billion KZT, National Bank reported on March 25.
Monetary base in a month increased by 10.8% to 2.25 trillion KZT.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received Anne-Marie Idrac, the state secretary of foreign trade at the French Ministry of Economy, Industry and Employment, on 18 March.
Sokolov-Sarbai Mining Production Association (SSGPO), a member of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) and Kazakhstan's biggest iron ore producer, plans to slash iron ore throughput by 40% in 2009, Interfax reported.
