On February 17, 2019 at the Tashkent Open championship of the Confederation of Central Asian fencing among juniors and cadets Turkmen athlete Jumanazar  Dovletnazarov won the gold medal. The open championship of the Confederation of Central Asia fencing among juniors and cadets is the first international competition held by the new regional structure. 150 athletes, including representatives of national teams of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan co...

From 14 to 17 February 2019, Turkmen crews of racers took part in the first stage of the world Cup on snow and ice races "Russia-Northern forest – 2019", which was held in the Russian Federation. Our compatriots Mukhammetmyrat and Shamyrat Gurbanovs won the second place, and third place was taken by Merdan and Shohrat Toylievs. 29 crews of teams from 15 countries participated in the international rally-raid competitions. Our racers competed with teams from Argentina, Russia, Finland, Czech...

Horse Ruhubelent was presented to Galkynysh group on behalf of the Head of the State. This news started the performance in the State Circus and all spectators who came to the show have welcomed the news with loud applauses. Excellent racer of wonderful beige and pearl colour has demonstrated its magnificent stature and grace. It was born in the first days of 2017, which was the Year of Health and Inspiration in the country. That is why, the President of Turkmenistan named it Ruhubelent. Back...

58 transactions have been registered at the trades of the State Commodity and Raw Material Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. For foreign currency, the brokers from Great Britain, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, Turkey, Afghanistan, Estonia, Kyrgyzstan and other countries have bought low-sulphur heavy fuel oil, base oil, diesel fuel and gasoline produced by Turkmenbashy Refinery Complex. Businessmen from Afghanistan have also procured diesel fuel made at Seydi Refinery. High density polye...

For prevention of diseases and development of cooperation with the UN Children Fund in vaccination sphere, the President of Turkmenistan signed the Resolution, having approved the Ministry of Health Protection and Medical Industry to sign additional Agreement on the initiative on vaccine independence in Turkmenistan to the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Turkmenistan and the UN Children Fund (UNICEF) on provision of procurement services.

At the session of the Government on February 15, Vice-premier, Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov informed President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov about the preparation to official visit of President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani to Turkmenistan. It was noted that expansion of relations with neighbouring countries including Afghanistan, which nation is connected with Turkmen people by old friendship and historical and cultural similarity, is one of key direction of foreign poli...

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held regular digital video conference session of the Cabinet of Ministers where current issues of the state life have been reviewed. First, the floor was given to Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers G. Myradov who reported on the work of the structures under his supervision, measures for improvement of the activity of financial and banking institutes of the country. Summing up the report, the Head of the State pointed out the necessity of the imp...