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ASHGABAT -- Young Turkmen studying abroad are angry with a new government decision to only recognize diplomas from certain foreign universities and to ...

Turkmenistan enjoys setting records, so one *fresh* development could be considered an achievement of sorts. The country has ranked at the very bottom of the ...

... * Arbitration claims against Ashgabat piling up. * Companies from Belarus, Germany, Turkey, Russia have sued. * Some see financial difficulties as reason for ...

For the first time in three years, North Korea is not the world's most dangerous country for journalists.

More than three years after Russia stopped buying gas from Turkmenistan, flows are resuming. In mid-April, Turkmengaz, the state natural gas company, ...

In this week's Turkmenistan bulletin: gas deliveries to Russia resume, the IMF obliquely confirms that government data is useless, and flooding spreads.

Turkmenistan has replaced North Korea in bottom place in the Reporters sans frontières (RSF, or Reporters Without Borders) 2019 World Press Freedom Index ...

Alexei Miller, the head of Russia's state-owned gas behemoth Gazprom, is becoming a familiar figure around Ashgabat. For the third time in the space of six ...

ASHGABAT -- A government-run news agency in Turkmenistan has published an April Fool's Day cartoon that mocks women drivers. For hundreds of women in ...

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan: This weekend saw a three-day celebration of Saudi Arabian culture take place in Turkmenistan. Saudi “Cultural Days” opened to ...

On April 15, Gazprom resumed imports of natural gas from Turkmenistan to Russia via the Central Asia–Center pipeline system, after a complete halt of more ...

The myth of Turkmenistan's economic buoyancy has been readily abetted over the years by international financial institutions. Even they are starting to revise ...

Cultural Days, an event celebrating and showcasing the Kingdom's customs and traditions, was officially inaugurated in Turkmenistan on Friday. The opening ...

On his way back from the United States, South Korean President Moon Jae-in spent eight days traveling across Central Asia. With visits to Turkmenistan, ...

(MENAFN - AzerNews) By Trend The employees of the Turkmen State Customs *Service* took part in the UN regional workshop, which was held at th.

Question: What do Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan have in common? The answer is that, after slow and painful reforms, each of these emerging and ...

At Fitch Solutions, we forecast Turkmenistan's real GDP growth to slow to 5.8% in 2019 and 5.6% in 2020. This is lower than the 6.2% estimate for 2018, as well ...

Russia's top mobile phone operator MTS has doubled its estimated losses from a long-running dispute with Turkmenistan to $1.5 billion, it said on Tuesday.

Turkmenistan, the country that holds the world's fifth largest natural gas reserves, is nearing completion of constructing its first gas-to-liquids (GTL) plant, which is ...

FILE PHOTO: People, including passengers of a flight from the Turkmen capital Ashgabat, gather in the baggage claim area upon their arrival at Almaty ...

Turkmenistan and France signed an intergovernmental agreement on granting work permits to family members of staff of diplomatic missions and consular ...

The streets of Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, were flooded after severe rains that began on April 13. Weeks of heavy downpours have taken a toll on the ...

A new report by Anti-Slavery International reveals how cotton picked with forced labor in Turkmenistan makes its way to high street shops across the world.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) held seminars in Bratislava on border security, border control and introduction of biometrics, ...

Turkmenistan, a country whose exports are heavily dominated by oil and gas to China, is making a concerted push to develop its non-fossil fuels sector.

Baku, Azerbaijan, April 25. By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend: In January-February 2019, Turkey's trade turnover with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan amounted to $423.1 ...

Economic ties between Turkmenistan and Japan got a boost last week when energy officials met in Tokyo to sign agreements that will result in energy co.

ASHGABAT, TURKMENISTAN: Ex-Soviet Turkmenistan's strongman leader broke ground on a new and presently nameless city close to the capital Ashgabat ...

Myrat Artykow has been appointed Minister of Energy of Turkmenistan, Trend reports referring to a decree issued by the President of Turkmenistan.

Governments in WHO Member States must implement existing policies and set ambitious goals at national level if they are to live up to their commitment to ...

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received Chairman of the Management Committee and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of ...

A meeting with Ambassador of Hungary to Turkmenistan Peter Santo was held in the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan (UIET)

With more than 50 countries eager to showcase their touristic know-how during a four-day travel exhibition in China, visitors to Shanghai this spring.

Russian "Gazprom" may in the near future resume the purchase of Turkmen gas interrupted in 2016, said the head of "Gazprom" Alexei Miller after talks in ...

The growth of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Turkmenistan in the first quarter of 2019 made up 6.2 percent, Trend reports referring to the Turkmen ...

A trilateral meeting on energy cooperation between Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan was held in Istanbul, Trend reports referring to the Ministry of Energy ...

International Sambo Federation (FIAS) President Vasily Shestakov has visited Turkmenistan following the awarding of the 2020 World Sambo Championships...

The Turkmen Parliament recently held elections for replacing 3 retired deputies, Trend reports referring to Turkmenistan's Central Commission for Elections and ...

Despite having the world's fifth largest reserves of natural gas, Turkmenistan has never had much luck selling them Europe. But after the five C.

Russia's Chelyabinsk Pipe Plant (ChelPipe) Group PJSC has signed a contract for shipping more than 150000 tons of large-diameter pipes (LDP) to ...

President Moon Jae-in agreed Wednesday to develop energy-related infrastructure in Turkmenistan during a summit with the latter's President Gurbanguly ...

Energy Ministers of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan Fatih Donmez, Parviz Shahbazov and Charymyrat Purchekov will discuss energy issues at a joint ...

Last week President Trump made an unexpected intervention in the economic affairs of Central Asia, one of the world's more closed and less understood ...

At the meeting of the Turkmen government, a proposal was made to join the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program, Trend reports with ...

The delegation of Turkmenistan will take part in the Central Asia Climate Change Conference to be held on the initiative of the World Bank (WB) April 3-4 in ...

SEOUL, April 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will share its know-how in 5G network technology with Turkmenistan and contribute to the central Asian country's ...

Turkmenistan, Libya and Somalia are home to the world's largest corruption challenges, according to Risk Advisory.

The Russian group of ChTPZ (Chelyabinsk Pipe-Rolling Plant) won the tender of the Turkmengas State Concern for the supply of pipes for the ...

Turkmengeologia State Corporation of Turkmenistan has discovered iron ore deposits at the "Gyzylgaya-V" area of the Chagyl deposit in the Gyzylgaya ...

Last week, the 2019 World Press Freedom Index found that journalists are being treated with increasing levels of hostility. Its findings were brutally reinforced by ...

The progress of TAPI project would largely depend on the outcome of negotiations between the US and the Taliban.

Economic ties between Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Turkey got a boost recently when officials met in Istanbul to sign an agreement that will see energy ...

Uzbekistan joined the China-Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway corridor, Trend reports with reference to the press *service* of Kazakhstan Railway.

The International Sambo Federation (FIAS) decided to hold the World Sambo Championship in 2020 in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, Trend reports ...

(ATTN: ADDS photo) SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- President Moon Jae-in embarked on a trip ...

This will be Pretorius' first competition since picking up an injury at the World Championships in Turkmenistan in November in 2018.

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, April 26. By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend: BP is ready to expand its presence in the Caspian region, Trend reports with reference to the ...

The US Department of State has informed India it will not be seeking to extend sanctions on the Chabahar port project, in which India has heavily invested ...

SatADSL, a provider of professional VSAT services via satellite, and Turkmenistan national satellite operator Turkmen Hemrasy, have signed a new partnership ...

MIRI: Curtin University Malaysia campus in Miri will hold its biggest-ever graduation ceremony that will see 735 students receiving their scrolls this Saturday ...

The government must do its utmost to avoid being placed on the black list by the Financial Action Task Force which has already put it on its grey list.

As Turkmenistan's national air carrier is grounded and the government is compelling to tighten more belts, the president carries on with horseplay.

The member-states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have ramped up efforts to consolidate and expand their trade and investment ties with the republics ...

President Donald Trump has been in the news this week. In Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan's foreign minister is in Pakistan this week to try to inject *fresh* impetus into the TAPI pipeline undertaking. A state bulletin describes Rashid ...

April 2019, Burgas, Bulgaria – Fin Foundation allows crypto holders to pay for petrol in crypto and get discounts in price. Oil and gas companies have recently ...

Inaugurated in October 2017, the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (BTK) Railway has carried 184,000 tons of freight, while 17,500 tons of it has been sent via Turkey. Transport ...

This week in our Turkmenistan bulletin: Handing Afghan troops to the Taliban and demonstrating a poor understanding of free-enterprise.

The president this week treated a congress hall brimming with sycophants to a morality lesson in verse. “When two people argue, do not more discord sow / In ...

The president has decreed that Turkmenistan's private sector be the new big thing, so the doling out of contracts is becoming a familiar routine. Gurbanguly ...

It's pleasing that the latest World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters without Borders rates the state of press freedom in South Africa as “satisfactory”.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Turkmenistan to immediately lift a travel ban imposed on veteran correspondent Soltan Achilova and ...

Turkmenistan holds the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves, but most of them remain undeveloped. The authorities now want to upgrade domestic and ...

As big projects in Turkmenistan move ahead (in theory, that is), the government continues to look for places to trim the budget. In a January 30 decree, President ...

In this week's Turkmenistan bulletin: Ashgabat is tentatively exploring Europe-bound gas export routes, while the president plays games.

Turkmenistan remains an economic basket case but in Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov at least its people have a president who regularly takes to the stage for a ...

The good news for Ashgabat is that the export slump appears to have tailed off. But Turkmenistan's dependence on China remains overwhelming. @sam_bhutia ...

The most closed of the Central Asian republics, Turkmenistan is comparable to North Korea in terms of its attitude to foreigners and a free press. Its capital has ...

Turkmenistan is looking to pave new roads, both figuratively and literally, in a bid to restart its sputtering economy. Serdar Berdymukhamedov, the president's ...

Turkmenistan is teaming up with Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Romania on a new trade project called the Black Sea-Caspian Sea International Transport Corridor.

Russia looks to be regaining influence in an especially vulnerable Turkmenistan, whether Ashgabat likes it or not.

SatADSL, professional satellite VSAT *service* provider, and Turkmenistan's national satellite operator, Türkmen hemrasy, have signed a new partnership to ...

Turkmenistan is among the world's most repressive countries, and is largely closed off to the outside world. When it comes to press freedom, only North Korea ...

In addition to blocking potentially embarrassing information online, Turkmenistan's government now appears to be getting smart to the need for a ...

New York, March 25, 2019 -- Turkmenistan authorities should allow freelance reporter Soltan Achilova to freely travel outside the country, the Committee to ...

AKIPRESS.COM - Badghis officials said that Taliban cut Turkmenistan's imported power to the northwest province in Afghanistan over the past 10 days as the ...

ASHGABAT -- Turkmen authorities have launched a campaign to register army reservists -- nearly all men under 50 -- amid concerns about militants in ...

As Turkmenistan prepares to put an end to the era of free energy, authorities in the country's capital are banging on doors to make sure citizens are prepared to ...

Turkmenistan's official government website this week featured an article about a deluded leader whose demise is brought about by a sequence of capricious ...

To open the new year, schools in Turkmenistan removed portraits of the president from their walls. Nothing dramatic. Updated images of a more gray, more ...

The neighboring country forced the troops back across the border, officials said, in what is believed to be the biggest setback for the Afghan security forces since ...

Turkmen authorities claimed a bumper cotton harvest, but an opposition website says leaked figures show cotton and wheat harvests were significantly lower.

A Turkmen correspondent for RFE/RL has left Turkmenistan after serving a three-year prison term on drug charges that human rights groups and a UN panel ...

The scale of Turkmenistan's fake figures has been exposed. Undaunted, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has advanced even higher targets for wheat ...

Turkmenistan's revenue projections have fallen for the second year in a row, this time by double-digit figures. The horse-loving president appears unfazed, ...

Reporters in Turkmenistan remain under threat. Alternative News of Turkmenistan, or ANT, which has long provided coverage on the country from its base in the ...

Turkmenistan has begun construction on a multibillion-dollar, cross-country highway project that the gas-rich, largely isolated Central Asian state hopes will help ...

Our correspondent in Ashgabat describes the new reality of utility bills and the Turkmen government's clumsy efforts to fix food prices for the New Year holiday.

Turkmen activist-in-exile Fareed Tukhbatullin explains the “deplorable” economic reality in his home country.

Since the last few months, Iran and Turkmenistan have got embroiled in a bitter dispute. The dispute had started brewing last year.