Opening of theatre festival “The Silk Road of Cordiality” was held in the Main Drama Theatre of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat.  Theatre artists from all velayats came to the capital for participation in the event organized by the Ministry of Culture. It was said at the opening ceremony that the festival is very important in the context of the slogan of this year “Turkmenistan is the Heart of the Great Silk Road”  Six capital’s and four velayat’s theatres present the potpourri of their stage pla...

64 transactions were registered past week at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan. Businessmen from the United States of America, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and other countries purchased, in foreign currency, gasoline, liquefied gas, hydrotreated diesel fuel, lighting kerosene produced at the Turkmenbashi Complex of Oil Refineries. Diesel fuel produced at the Seydi Oil Refinery, as well as technical iodine, fine-grained potassium chlor...

Conference hall of the Officers House of the Ministry of Defence of Turkmenistan hosts the session dedicated to remarkable event – by special Decree of the President of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Grandfather of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Berdimuhamed Annayev was conferred with high state award “Medal of Honour” for personal courage displayed serving military duty during the Great Patriotic War.  Heads and personnel of military and law enforcement agencies, lectu...

On June 28, 2018, at the joint meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers and the State Security Council of Turkmenistan, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, the Minister of Foreign Affairs reported on preparations for the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development under the aegis of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), scheduled for July this year in New York. As is known, this month our country was elected to the membership of ECOSOC for the period of 2019-2021. By...

An Ahalteke horse Akhan, bred at the Ahalteke horse complex of the President of Turkmenistan, entered the Guinness Book of Records. The horse demonstrated the best result rearing the 10-metre distance and improved the previous result, recorded in 2016, twice!  Beautiful Akhan, rearing the distance in 4.19 seconds once again demonstrated the superiority of the Ahalteke horse breed, its unsurpassed merits, fostered by Turkmen jockeys and horse breeders over many centuries.  This record also...

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov had a telephone conversation with President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.  Greeting each other, the leaders of the two states expressed satisfaction with the high level and the constructive character of the interstate dialogue based on the long-term traditions of friendship and the principles of strategic partnership.  The President of Russia cordially congratulated the Turkmen leader on his birthday and wished him good health, lo...

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov had a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Cordially greeting each other, the leaders of the states expressed satisfaction with the opportunity to have one to one discussion on the priority issues of the state dialogue, strengthened with the indissoluble ties of friendship and good neighbourliness. Taking the opportunity, President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev cordiall...