Turkmen team successfully performed at the Open Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Europe Cup in Plock, having won two gold, four silver and one bronze medals.  Student of National Institute of Sports and Tourism Dovran Atayev (up to 77 kg) and Batyr Bayramgeldiyevwho was the best in the weight category up to 61 kg were the champions of the tournament.  Yalkym Nuriyev won the silver in the weigh category up to 70 kg. Two students of National Institute of Sports and Tourism Gulshat Gylyjova (up to 55...

23 transactions were registered at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week.  Businessmen from the UAE purchased first straight-run gasoline produced at the Seydi oil refinery. Businessmen from Russia, the UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Turkey, the UAE purchased B-type carbamide (Turkmenhimiya State Concern).  Businessmen from Turkey, the UAE and Armenia purchased sheet glass and cotton yarn to the amount of more than 57.299 million US dollars.  Businessmen...

Collection of sport achievements of our country was supplemented with bronze medal on the first day of the World Sambo and Combat Sambo Championship in Bucharest.  Charymyrat Annagurbanov, numerous prize winner of big international tournaments, winner of V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, Honoured Master of Sports of Turkmenistan went up the third step of the triumph podium. Sambo wrestlers from Ukraine and Bulgaria were the best in addition to our sportsman among twelve sportsmen competi...

The programme of the Japanese Film Festival, held in the cinema theatre in the Berkarar Shopping and Entertainment Centre in Ashgabat, includes five fictional and one animation films.  The representatives of the Embassy of Japan in Turkmenistan, the specialists of the Ministry of Culture, the masters of arts, students, residents and guests to Ashgabat, who are interested in the culture of the Land of the Rising Sun and study its language, attended the festival opening ceremony.  The films,...

Women competed for the medals in the weight category above 87 kg on the final day of the World Weightlifting Championship. Stubborn contest was between Tatyana Kashirina (Russian Federation) and Suping Meng (People’s Republic of China). In the snatch, Chinese weightlifter lifted 143 kg in the third attempt. Russian sportswoman had to set the world record to take over the opponent, what she exactly did, having lifted 145 kg in the second attempt. Kuk Hyang Kim from the DPRK was the third in this...

Men competed for the medals in super heavy weight category above 109 kg on the last day of the World Weightlifting Championship. Hojamuhammet Toychyyev, who lifted 240 kg in the clean-and-jerk and improved his personal record by one kg, represented our country. Failing lifting 145 kg he became the fourth in this discipline and the seventh in total.  Olympic champion Lasha Talakhadze from Georgia had nobody equal to him. In the snatch, he lifted 217 kg in the first attempt. He set new world re...

On November 9, 2018, the meeting was held with the delegation headed by Mr. Mevlut Chavushoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey who arrived in Ashgabat on a working visit. During the meeting, the parties noted high level of bilateral relations and the importance of the visits paid by the Heads of States to each other’s countries. Futhermore, the heads of delegations discussed issues with regard to expanding cooperation in trade-economic, transport, energy, cultural- h...