VII International Martial Arts Games, where Turkmen National taekwondo team won two bronze medals in team competition and one bronze medal in personal offset, have finished in Minsk. Turkmen taekwondo team comprising of Goshaniyaz Durdiyev, Orazmyrat CHariyev, Gaygysyz Atabayev, Annamyrat Goshaniyazov and Serdar Hydyrov performed well in two disciplines – the team tuli (complex exercises) and team sparring. Having demonstrated the cohesion and coordination, our team won two bronze medals....

Turkmenistan National team continue successful performance at the World Powerlifting Championship in Anaheim. Our sportsmen won another three silver medals. Rejepbay Rejepov in weight category up to 77 kg lifted 352 in combined clean-and-jerk and snatch, having taken over Harrison Dyce Maurus from the USA, the junior world champion of this year, by 4 kg and yielded 9 kg to the winner, Egyptian sportsman Mohamed Mahmud, the bronze winner of the Olympics in Rio. By the way, Rejepbay result i...

Turkmenistan wrestlers won seven medals at the World Kurash Championship in Istanbul. Our team has brought the strongest wrestlers who are the prize-winners of the V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games that were held in Ashgabat in September. Totally, there are 270 sportsmen from 35 countries participating in the competitions that will last until December 4. Shamuhammet Kurbanov competing in the weight category up to 60 kg won silver medal. Besides, the collection of medals of our National...

The next session of the Central Committee for Elections and Referenda in Turkmenistan, devoted to issues of preparation for forthcoming elections of deputies of the Mejlis of the sixth convocation, members of velayat, etrap and city khalk maslahaty of the fourth convocation, members of geneshes of the eighth convocation took place. Members of the Central Electoral Committee, representatives of working groups of the Committee, national observers, high ranking officers of political parties and pub...

The State Program for 2018-2021 to Conduct Research and Archaeological Excavations to Study Historical and Cultural Monuments Located in Turkmenistan along the Great Silk Road was developed in Turkmenistan. This has been reported at the Government session by Vice Premier S.Toylyyev supervising science and education. He has stated that this work is aimed at creating an integrated system to study historical and cultural heritage of the Turkmen people based on archaeological, ethnographic, histo...

On 4-5 December of the current year, Vice Premier, Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov will attend the Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Caspian Littoral States in Moscow. The report on preparations for this meeting has been presented at the session of the Government of Turkmenistan. According to the Vice Premier, the meeting will cover issues related to the agenda of the 5th Summit of the Heads of Caspian Littoral States that is scheduled to be held in 2018 in the Republic of Kazakh...

On November 29, 2017, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Malaysia together with the Turkmen students studying at the Petronas Technical University and with representatives of the Student Council of this university held a solemn presentation of the book "Turkmenistan - heart of the Great Silk Road" by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Speakers at the solemn presentation noted the importance of the Silk Road in the life of our ancestors and that the Turkmen land played the role o...