Importance and scale of manmade Altyn Asyr Turkmen Lake, which is built in the centre of Karakum Desert, a grandiose ecological and hydrological project aimed at the improvement of the environment, rational use of water and land resources, have been mentioned at the video conference session on January . This important ecological project is represented by the creation of single system of drainage collectors for targeted collection of drain waters from irrigated lands in all regions of the coun...

The height of the main New Year tree of the country, which is placed at the square of Älem Cultural and Entertainment Centre, together with octagonal star, is 38 meters height. This is the tallest New Year tree in the CIS. New Year trees in the capitals of Azerbaijan and Armenia are one meter shorter. In Uzbekistan, New Year symbol is shorter by 3 meters, in Belarus by 8 meters, in Tajikistan by 10 meters, in Russia by 11 meters, in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Georgia by 13 meters. New Year tr...

Ashgabat hosted the honouring ceremony of the winners of special children Gulbaba Award. The prize was awarded to 56 talented children from all regions of the country – winners of intellectual, art and school contests, sport competitions of regional and international scale. They were presented with special certificated and valuable prizes in ceremonial atmosphere in the Exhibition Centre of the Trade and Industry Chamber. Talented boys and girls were greeted by numerous relatives and friends...

13 transactions have been registered at the trades of the State Commodity and Raw Material Exchange of Turkmenistan last week. For foreign currency, entrepreneurs from Afghanistan bought gasoline produced by Turkmenbashy Refinery Complex. In addition, vehicles, colourless glass and cotton fibre were sold to United Arab Emirates, Ireland and Afghanistan. Total amount of transactions exceeded 32,493,000 US dollars.

109 paintings from museums of Dazhoguz and Ahal provinces augmented the Fund of the Museum of Fine Arts. For many years, says the director of the museum, the merited arts worker of Turkmenistan, Saparmamed Meredov, we worked towards bringing fine arts closer to villagers. To that end, painters conducted trips to rural areas to depict rustic life, to paint portraits of rural workers and landscapes. The majority of works were left in the countryside, unfortunately, in conditions not quite appro...

It was informed at the session of the Government on January 4, that Türkmenýüpek JSV of the Ministry of Textile Industry works on increment of cocoon production for further improvement of material base of silk production industry. It is planned to produce 2,030 tons of cotton this year including 155 tons in Ahal Velayat, 25 tons in Balkan Velayat, 485 tons in Dashoguz Velayat, 960 tons in Lebap Velayat and 405 tons in Mary Velayat. At present time, Türkmenýüpek JSV works of stocking of the si...

The information about the measures for development of multilateral cooperation with the countries of South and Central Asia, Middle and Near East as well for creation of new structure of interregional relations has been presented at the session of the Government on January 4. Vice-premier, Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov informed that at present time, Turkmen side together with foreign departments of the states of the above-mentioned regions study the potential of improvement of the partnersh...