The capital of Turkmenistan is today celebrating its 140th anniversary, and at the other end of the world the U.S. city of Albuquerque is marking Ashgabat Sister City Day. Among the numerous visitors who have ever come to our sun-drenched country, American citizen, poet and writer Langston Hughes does deserve a mention. In 1932, the innovator of the then-new literary art form called jazz poetry crossed the ocean and later, from October to December traveled through Central Asia. Hughes visi...

“During the years of independence, Ashgabat has radically changed and transformed. We invest significant funds to transform the Turkmen capital into one of the most prosperous cities in the world. In our white-marble city, where the most advanced practices, engineering and technical solutions are successfully combined with the traditions of national architecture, we implement large-scale programmes,” President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said in his congratulatory Address on the occasion of the 14...

On the occasion of the end of the 2020-2021 academic year and the Day of Farewell Bell, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov addressed a congratulatory message to secondary school graduates, teachers and all employees of the education system of Turkmenistan. “The most valuable asset created by humanity is upbringing, and the basis of upbringing is science and education. Therefore, I am firmly convinced that the events held on the occasion of the Farewell Bell ceremony will increase the high se...

Today, on the 25th of May, a telephone conversation was held between the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R.O.Meredov and the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan M.B.Tileuberdi. During the talk, the parties discussed a wide range of issues of bilateral cooperation, particularly the collaboration between the external policy agencies of two countries. At that, the main topic of discussion was...

Turkmen State Institute of the Economics and Management organized international online conference dedicated to the 140th anniversary of Ashgabat. Partner universities of Ashgabat Institute of Economics and Management, in particular Kazan (Volga) Federal University and Bucharest University of Economic Sciences took part in the meeting. Big interest of the participants was raised by the speech of Deputy Director for Foreign Relations of Kazan Federal University Timirkhan Alishev, which was d...

Five sportsmen will represent Turkmenistan at the World Junior Weightlifting Championship in Tashkent, which was started on May 23. The Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs informed about this to our correspondent. Bektimur Reyimov (weight category up to 67 kg) will be the first to enter the podium from our team. Further, Makstan Meredov, Gaygysyz Tarayev (both up to 73 kg), Sherzad Rusambayev (up to 89 kg) and Atajan Dayiyev (above 109 kg) will join him in the contest for the medals. It i...

For successful fulfilment of objectives set in the Program of social and economic development of the country in 2019 – 2025, provision of high level of construction of Ashgabat City residential complex based on digital technologies in the north of Ashgabat, further improvement of life level of the population, the President of Turkmenistan signed the Resolution, according to which Interdepartmental Commission for integrated organized construction of the above-mentioned residential complex has bee...