Andrey Platonov has a remarkable phrase in his notebooks “Turkmenistan is a country of irony”. The author of “Jan” and “Takyr”, who spent a short time in Turkmenistan, managed to accurately capture one of the characteristic features of the Turkmens - the ability not to become discouraged, even when life squeezes tears out of you, but to laugh at the circumstances, to ironicize each other and oneself. It is unlikely that he was familiar with the actor Sarry Karryev, but it can be assumed that the...

The WHO Country Office in Turkmenistan organized a training course for health workers and media representatives on effective public awareness during the COVID-19 vaccination period. The course is organized as part of a joint WHO / European Union project for Central Asian countries on the COVID-19 response and joint activities with the Ministry of Health and Medical Industry of Turkmenistan to increase the capacity of health workers in effective crisis communication, as well as disseminate reliab...

The traveler is a discoverer. And it doesn't matter at all that before he entered the previously unknown territory, it was explored by someone earlier and is no longer officially considered "terra incognito". In his wanderings around the world, each traveler continues the work of his predecessors, finding and describing new details of current life that have escaped their sight, details of everyday life, observing and studying the character traits of the local population. Discovering a new land f...

The next World Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN / IUCN) was held from 3 to 11 September in Marseille. The Congress was attended by scientists, representatives of civil society, politicians and heads of various corporations and international conventions, including the Ramsar - on wetlands. In this regard, we asked a member of the Coordination Committee of the Ramsar Regional Initiative for Central Asia, Professor E.A. Rustamov. share your thoughts: - Turkmen...

International trading firm Vitol and Azerbaijan's state-owned company SOCAR have agreed to transport about 1 million tons of Turkmen oil per year via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline. The beginning of the implementation of the agreement is scheduled for early October this year. As the newspaper notes, the oil purchased from Turkmenistan was previously transported by tankers through the river and sea ports of the Russian Federation to Novosibirsk, and then by an oil pipeline. Now the vol...

On September 9, 2021, at the proposal of Turkmenistan at the 102nd plenary meeting of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly a resolution «On cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization» was unanimously adopted. As is known, within the framework of Turkmenistan's chairmanship in the Economic Cooperation Organization, Ashgabat will host the 15th Summit of Heads of State of this organization on November 28 this year. Neutral Turkmenistan promotes imp...

In the northwestern part of the Dashoguz velayat, within the Ustyurt and Sarykamysh geographical regions, at the junction of the southern and northern subzones of the Turan deserts lies the Kaplankyr nature reserve. The reserve has clearly defined natural boundaries only in the west thanks to a huge depression - the Karashor salt marsh. It is difficult to find a territory within the Ustyurt that is more monotonous, smoother, more consistent with the idea of Ustyurt than an endless plain. The...