The solemn ceremony of opening the School Cultural and Sports Festival of the Caspian States took place in the Avaza National tourism zone.  This event includes the competitions in six sports - belt wrestling, futsal, volleyball, 3x3 basketball, table tennis and chess. The festival will be held this week on the Caspian coast. The teams from Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, various regions of the Russian Federation - Dagestan, Kalmykia, the Astrakhan region, etc. will take part in the fes...

Cultural programme for the delegates of the forum has been organized under the 55th session of the Asian Pacific Broadcasting Union general Assembly. Learning of the history and culture of Turkmen nations is very topical for the members of the ABU in the light of the activity of this largest in the world broadcasting union on propaganda of humanistic ideals and organization of cultural exchanges. The 7th Asian Pacific TV song contest in Ashgabat on October 2, which was watched live by the spe...

International conference HEAVY CASPIAN: TURKMENISTAN, where topical issues of development of the world market of transport and logistic services was discussed, has been completed in Avaza National tourist zone. Having brought together more than hundred representatives of professional community from different countries, national and international associations, transport, logistic, forwarding, trade and consulting companies from Turkmenistan, Russia, Austria, Belgium, the Republic of Korea, Tur...

The specialists of the design institute of the State Concern “Turkmenavtoyollary” (“Turkmenavtodorogy”) completed the development of the project of an automobile bridge across the Karabogazgol Bay. The facility, 354 meters long, 17 meters wide and seven meters high above the bay, will provide four-lane traffic (two lanes in each direction) in the direction of the Kazakhstan border.  The new engineering structure will be built on the site of the old one, with a bipolar movement, which is no lo...

Road bitumen produced at the Turkmenbashi oil refineries network (TORN) become an export item this year has. About 35 thousand tons of this oil-refining product was sold through the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange. About seven thousand tons of raw materials for the production of asphalt concrete were shipped by rail to entrepreneurial structures operating in Uzbekistan.  The demand for Turkmen bitumen is associated with quality improvement of this binder using new vacuum equipment...

The following events were held in Ashgabat on October 2, 2018 within the framework of the 55th session of the General Assembly of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU): a meeting of the Technical Group, the seventh forum of women, a seminar on quality management, a seminar of managers, a meeting of radio workers, a planning and strategizing group, a program committee, a meeting on financing television sports rights, and the VII Song Festival. In the evening of the same day, at the end of...

On October 1 – 5, 2018, the delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Migration Service of Turkmenistan S.B.Imamberdiev took part at the 69th session of the Executive Committee of the Program of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, held in Geneva, Switzerland. The UNHCR Executive Committee (Executive Committee) meets annually in Geneva to review and approve the agency’s programs and budget, advice on international protection issues and discuss a number of o...