Past week at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan 158 transactions were registered.  For the foreign currency businessmen from Great Britain, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Latvia bought aviation kerosene, gasoline, liquefied gas and low sulphur reduced fuel oil manufactured at Turkmenbashi oil refineries complex and also gasoline produced at Seydi oil refinery and liquefied gas (SC "Turkmengaz"). Besides it, for the foreign currency...

In the conference hall of the capital National Institute of Sports and Tourism the ceremony in honour of prize-winners of international tournaments which passed in early December, took place. On behalf of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov the sportsmen who gained successful results on the world arena, special gifts were handed.  Representatives of some profile departments of the State Committee for Sports, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sports high school, including its students, teachers...

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held extended session of the Cabinet of Ministers dedicated to the outcomes of social and economic development of the country for eleven months of 2017.  Opening the session, the Head of the State reported on the decision to adopt the bill on granting of Turkmenistan to 1690 people on occasion of International Neutrality Day.  After, the president of the country gave floor to Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Foreign Minister R...

The Turkmen national rite of singing and dancing, Kushtdepdi, has been inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Humanity. This has been communicated at the session of the Government of Turkmenistan by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.  The decision was adopted unanimously at the 12th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage that took place on 7 December 2017 in Jeju (Republic of Korea)....

On the occasion of International Neutrality Day, President of Turkmenistan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, signed the Decree on Pardoning Convicted Persons.  Pursuant to the document, 697 citizens of the country will be freed from further serving the basic sentence and additional penalty of being imposed the obligation to reside in a certain locality.  Consequently, the head of state has tasked the Secretary of the State Security...

In accordance with the Programme of the social and economic development of Turkmenistan for 2018-2024, adopted during the Elders’ Council in October this year, over 1.300 billion manats will be invested into the development of the national space sphere.  It is planned to launch a land remote sensing satellite into the space orbit, as well as to significantly widen the ground infrastructure of the space industry, train specialists and organize the scientific work on space.  The beginning of...

In January-November, 2017, the GDP growth rate in Turkmenistan made up 6.5 percent. The GDP growth rate increased by 5.8 percent in the production sector, by 1.4 percent – in the construction sector, by 10.9 percent - in the transport and communications sector, by 9.6 percent in the trade industry, by 5.1 percent – in the agricultural sector, by 8.9 percent in the sphere of services. As compared with the same period of 2016, the growth in the production industry achieved 6.4 percent. In Ja...