In recent days, distorted information about allegedly illegal activities of Turkmenistan's border services with respect to the Iranian vessel has spread in the media of Iran and other countries. The Turkmen side states that on March 21, 2018, the border services of Turkmenistan suppressed an attempt to smuggle a large consignment of narcotic drugs by a group of citizens of the Islamic Republic of Iran that violated the state border of Turkmenistan on the motorway boat in Turkmenistan's territori...

“Build the steps to the future from the wonderful stones!” – The great artist Nikolai Roerich wrote long time ago while living in India. This pathos words express very accurately the essence of the phenomenon that we call the Great Silk Road. It has been 140 years since German geologist, geographer and traveller, President of Berlin Geographic Society Ferdinand von Richthofen introduced this popular term to the science. It was several decades after that before the scientists from different count...

National Spring Holiday - International Nowruz Day was celebrated with great effect in Turkmenistan. The main events of the celebration were expanded on tradition place «Nowruz ýaýlasy» where the building in the shape of huge traditional tent «Türkmeniň ak öýi» has been built.  This place keeps the layers of ancient civilizations. It is Ahal foothills where the farmers started to cultivate the wheat for the first time. The legendary ahalteke horses were also originated from this place. In the...

I would like to offer you my hearty congratulations on the national spring festival, International Day of Novruz, which is being widely celebrated at this wonderful time of the year designated as “Turkmenistan - the Heart of the Silk Route”, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said in his congratulatory message.  I am confident that the festivities in honor of the festival (recognized as an integral part of the spiritual and cultural heritage of humanity) that embodies peace, friendship, good...

Intermediate report of the CIS Observers Mission on the outcomes of the monitoring of preparation and conduct of the elections of the deputies of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan (March 5 – 20, 2018)  According to the invitation of Turkmenistan, the Mission of the observers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (hereinafter referred to as the Mission) monitors the preparation and conduct of the elections of the deputies of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan (hereinafter referred to as the Elections). ...

The complex of buildings of the business, shopping and entertainment centres will be built in the southwest part of the capital, where the new urban development blends well with the original landscape of the hilly terrain at the foothills of the Kopetdag Mountains.  The architectural project embodies an original artistic and compositional technique, associatively styled by an Ahalteke horse. The building is designed in the form of a horseshoe and consists of several blocks of different number...

On March 20, 2018, a scientific and practical conference "Diplomacy of Neutral Turkmenistan: From History to the Future" was held in Ashgabat, timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. In the morning an exhibition opened in the foyer of the main building of the Institute, dedicated to the history of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs o...