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...

On November 6-8, 2018, Turkmen delegation headed by Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan was on a working visit to Kabul, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to discuss priority areas of Tukmen-Afghan bilateral cooperation. In the course of the working visit, Turkmen delegation was recieved by Mr. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. During the meeting the sides discussed the issues of further expanding bi...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held extended session of the Cabinet of Ministers where outcomes of activity of the branches of national economy for ten months of 2018 have been summed up. Relevant reports have been presented and assessment of completed work has been made during the session where the members of the State Security Council, hyakims of Ashgabat and velayats were invited. Turning to the agenda of the session of the Government, the Head of the State gave floor to Deputy Chairm...