On 10 November 2025, a meeting was held between Gulshat Yusupova, Rector of the Institute of International Relations of the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Turkmenistan, and Ivan Volynkin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Turkmenistan. This was reported by the news resource TerraNews.

During the negotiations, the parties discussed key areas of Turkmen-Russian cooperation, including cooperation in the fields of science and education.

After the meeting, the Russian diplomat visited the UNESCO Club ‘Culture of Peace’ and the institute’s training studio, where he gave an interview.