The main New Year tree of the country switched on the lights, having announced on the arrival of New Year, long awaited and the most favourite holiday.  Grandiose ceremony with the participation of thousands of young and adult Turkmenistan citizens and the guests of our country took place at the square in front of Älem Cultural and Entertainment Centre where the tallest and most beautiful New Year tree was placed. According to good tradition initiated by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, t...

The facility started working in test mode. The construction of big industrial complex with the factory for preparation of silica sand that is used as the main material for glass production was started in 2015. The project was done under the state programmes of import substitution and export orientation.  The production of glass by floatation method is new production technology in our country. Production trains of the facility include material preparation workshop, melting section, various siz...

The Ministry of foreign Affairs organized competition for indoor soccer, volleyball and table tennis between embassy teams and representatives of international organizations, accredited in Turkmenistan with participation of the country’s department for foreign policy on occasion of International Neutrality day and 10 years of UNO Regional center of preventive diplomacy for Central Asia. It is reported on the MFA site.  Ten teams participated at the competition for indoor soccer, which was con...

An inter-school song and music festival was conducted in Ashgabat dedicated to the International Day of Neutrality. The Ministry of Education and its metropolitan administration organized the event.  The peculiarity of the creative action is that all the songs sounded in foreign languages - English, Russian, German, Chinese, Japanese and French.  The festival involved in its orbit about four hundred children from secondary schools in Ashgabat. They performed with solo and choral number...

XII Forum of Arts and Science Intellectuals of the Commonwealth of Independent States with the participation of Turkmenistan delegation together with the representatives from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Russia has started in Russian capital.  Speaking at the Summit of the Heads of the CIS in Sochi in October of this year, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov called upon the enhancement of mutual trust and initiated the development of the action...

There is certainly a market in every modern city – whether it is big or small. Therefore, it was like this always and everywhere. Since the ancient times, the first cities in the world were formed around the places of trade. Urban marketplaces in Asia and Europe were the special territory, where people met every day not only to sell or buy some goods, but also to catch up with each other's news, exchange opinions, take part in public events - spontaneous or organized ones. Tsar's heralds announc...

What the caravans used to carry along the Great Silk Road? What was huge sacks loaded onto camels filled with? The list of goods made by men’s hands as well as grown and harvested by people is huge indeed. However, the name of the route itself, even though this is modern name, directly indicates that silk was the most valuable item of that list. Light compact material from China and Central Asia, which was on the great demand on the West and cost a lot of money, like nothing else was suitable fo...