Turkmenistan won seven medals on the second day of A. A. Harlampiyev Memorial Sport and Combat Sambo World Cup.  Batyr Durdiyev won silver medal in men’s combat sambo in the weight category up to 52 kg. Zyba Orunova, the student of National Institute of Sports and Tourism also won the bronze in women’s in weight category up to 64 kg.  Student of the above-mentioned university Kerimberdy Dovletov (up to 62 kg), soldier of National Army Kerimberdy Dovletov (up to 74 kg) and coach of sport sc...

On March 24, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) N. Akkoshkarov, who arrived in Ashgabat at the head of a mission of international observers from the SCO to the parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan. The main topic of the meeting was the parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan on March 25, 2018. As the sides noted, over the years of its existence the SCO has accumulated...

Turkmenistan is about to make new important step toward the consolidation of democratic principles in Turkmen society, further development of primordial traditions of people’s power, which Turkmen nation followed throughout the millenniums and which triumphs in new historical age. On March 25, all polling stations will open its doors for Turkmen citizens who will have to use their constitutional right and serve their civic duty electing the most deserving representatives to the Mejlis, represent...

On March 23, 2018, in Geneva, Switzerland, the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), at its 37th session, unanimously adopted the Resolution "Promoting human rights through sport and the Olympie ideal", which reflects the initiative of the President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on encouraging valuable contribution of Olympic refugee teams in strengthening peace and human rights. In particular, the document notes that the participation of refugee teams in large-scale sports games, includ...

On March 23, 2018, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan there was a meeting with the Chairman of the Executive Committee - CIS Executive Secretary S.N.Lebedev, who arrived in the Turkmen capital at the head of the mission of CIS observers to participate in the assessment of the forthcoming parliamentary elections. During the conversation, an exchange of views took place on the preparations for the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Turkmenistan on March 25, 2018, as well as...

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...