The growth of the gross domestic product of Turkmenistan for eight months of 2021 amounted to 6.2 percent. The results of the country's socio-economic development for the reporting period were considered at a meeting of the government of Turkmenistan. It was noted at the meeting that compared to the same period last year, production in general increased by 5.5 percent, the volume of retail trade increased by 17 percent, and the volume of foreign trade turnover - by 9.6 percent. The revenue si...

The love of the Turkmen painters to our Homeland is reflected in the paintings of exhibition dedicated to the 30th to anniversary of independence of Turkmenistan, opened in the Exhibition center of our capital. A painting “Novruz” by Natalya Kalugina, presented in the center of the exhibition hall, pictures a wonderful time of year when air is fresh and is sweet with the odours of dainty flowers of apricot. In her other painting “Way to mausoleum of Magtym Agzam” (people called him Magtym...

On September 9-10, 2021, in Tashkent city the 23rd Central Asia Media Conference of the OSCE was held in hybrid format. The theme of the Conference was “Promoting Public Value of the Media in Central Asia”. About 70 participants from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Mongolia representing the governmental structures, media, the civil society and scientific community discussed core values, the content and strategic problems of the public service broadcasting in t...

Today President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has held the next online meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers in which the results of work of branches of the economic complex for eight months of the current year were summed up and also topical issues of social and economic development of the country were considered. Passing to the agenda, the leader of the nation first gave the floor to deputy-chairman of the Cabinet S. Berdimuhamedov who reported on macroeconomic indicators for eight months of 2021...

On September 10, representatives of Turkmenistan took part online in the VI Caspian Media Forum, which gathered representatives from the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Kazakhstan, Russia, and the Republic of Uzbekistan in the administrative center of the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation. Tourism and ethnocultural communication became the main topic of the agenda. The participants also discussed such issues as travel journalism in the digital er...

On 9 and 10 September 2021a two-day seminar on promoting e-business and e-commerce and defining the role of government in elaboration of legislation to promote digitalization was held online. As they told the correspondent of «GA» in OCSE Centre in Ashgabat, the representatives from the Ministry of Trade and Foreign Economic Relations, the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Ministry of Justice, the Central Bank of Turkmenistan, and other state agencies, commercial banks and private sector p...

The best practices on modernization of customs and transport procedures as a tool to improve transport management and transport security, especially during emergency situations were discussed on the OSCE-organized online seminar in Ashgabat. As OSCE Centre in Ashgabat said, the representatives of the Trade and Foreign Economic Affairs, State Customs Service, State transport agencies and other key ministries and government bodies of Turkmenistan participated in the event. The event was orga...