Gazprom’s CEO Alexey Miller, following his visit to Ashgabat with Russian PM Victor Zubkov, announced on 27 November that Russia had agreed to pay more for Turkmen gas. So far, Russians have paid $ 100 for 1,000 m3 of gas. However, starting with 1 January 2008, the price will amount to $ 130, and […]
When travelling to Turkmenistan, one naturally expects to see the desert, however in reality it looks very much different from what we imagine it to look like. The first thing that strikes us is the space, the overwhelming vastness. Hundreds of kilometres of emptiness with virtually nothing around. Only a lonely camel occasionally appears […]
The independent www.ferghana.ru website informs that 25 November marks the 5th anniversary of the failed assassination attempt on President of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov.
According to the official records, on that Monday morning, the presidential motorcade was raked as the president was heading from his suburban residence to the office in the centre of Ashgabat […] […]
On 19 November, the Azerbaijani governmental delegation headed by the Deputy Foreign Minister Halaf Halafov came to Ashgabat to participate in the subsequent round of Turkmen-Azerbaijani talks on cooperation in the field of oil and gas industry. Before the talks began, the Azerbaijani information agency APA had informed:
The delegation members will hold talks at […]
Cigarette smoke is an inseparable companion of anyone traveling across countries of the former Soviet Union. Everyone smokes everywhere: on the streets, in restaurants, internet caffés, government buildings and private offices, even on public transport. The country leading in this bad habit is Armenia, where tobacco products are the third (!) most important imported […]
The US embassy has been sponsoring a number of educational programs
recently, offering to take Turkmen students to the United States for
better education. The Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship Program,
established in 1992 and covering all of Central Asia, allows students
to study in US universities for up to two years, and provides the
students with a large […]
As the Turkmen State News Service reports a session of the Turkmenistan Security Council devoted to issues of national defense was held on 19 November. President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimukhammedov, who presided over the meeting, said:
Turkmenistan has been committed to the principles of positive neutrality, having steadily pursued a policy of good neighborliness and […]
Turkmen national football team thrashed Hong Kong in the second round of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Asian zone qualifiers. Mekan Nasyrov, Vladimir Bayramov and Arif Mirzoyev scored to make it 3:0, Hong Kong players’ attacks were vain.
This means that Turkmenistan joins 19 other national teams in the third round, where Rahim Kurbanmamedov’s squad […]
Angry debates about British insidiousness stirred up in the Russian (and not only) press following the visit of Malcolm Wicks, the UK Energy Minister, to Turkmenistan have not yet settled…
Russian press has been rigorously pursuing the subject of Britain taking a revenge on “Gazprom”: Great Britain signed an Energy Agreement with Turkmenistan that can result in […]
According to The Independent
Russia plans to set up an organisation to monitor rights abuses in Europe and the US so that to turn the tables on Western critics of its human rights record. This organisation will have its base either in Brussels or Germany.
This is nothing but a shining example of the old good […]
