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Turkmenistan passes to the third round of 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers

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 […]

Kurtly lake

Posted by Merdjen | in Opinion | on October 23rd, 2007

Translation of AbdulGamid’s original post in Russian from 21.10.07
Once the most available and popular recreational spot for Ashgabat people is now harder to commute to. Since the police posts were established at all the roads to Kurtly reservoir, it has actually got 25000 manats (1 USD) more expensive. Exactly this price is set […]

The Caspian “three whales”

 Translation of AbdulGamid’s original post in Russian from 21.10.07
Companies that has been operation in Turkmenistan for long time, keenly responded to the call for foreign investments into development of tourist zone at the Turkmen Caspian see coast.
A presentation of projects on development of the national tourist zone Avaza was held at Serdar hotel […]

Just new banknotes or new monetary reform?

 Translation of Abdulgamid’s original post in Russian from 12. 10. 2007
It seems that nothing epic is going to happen in 2009, but the new notes of Turkmen manats will be introduced.
Turkmenistan’s new banknote samples were approved at the top level on October 11. The banknotes will be circulated in 2009. The design of new banknotes […]

Got Fired for the Fire

 Translation of Abdulgamid’s original post in Russian from 11.10.2007
Minister of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan, Hojamurat Annagurbanov had his carrier burned to the ashes in the fire of Russian bazaar.
 The law abuses were identified during the check up conducted in the interior ministry as well as the investigation conducted by the State Commission under the President of […]

Russian bazaar is on fire?

About a week ago Russian market, the biggest and most popular bazaar, in Ashgabat was almost burnt.
Unfortunately, no major news pages have reported on this yet.
If anyone wants to share information about what happened, please, do leave a comment. Or drop a line if you are interested to write a post about it (merdjen@neweurasia.net)
Russian bazaar is […]

No graduating class 2007: New Education Reforms

Looking back at the Spring 2007, especially at May 25th, which is traditionally last day of school and graduation ceremonies are held at every secondary school around post-soviet region, including Turkmenistan. But there were none this year… for the Turkmen good!
Fortunately, there was no graduating class 2007 even though many school students had already […]

Where does a leftist Turkmen woman fit?

It’s time for me to finally affiliate myself with something political and sound… I guess. With this mission I surf the web for sites and blogs of various political parties, their opposition and their leaders. I wonder where do I belong? What do I have to choose from?
Let’s see…

Turkmenistan: The Golden Age . The best choice as […]

Then I found out my leader is near

People are surprised about how many police officers are on the streets of Bishkek: all in white shirts, standing about a meter away from each other. Bishkek is prettified: colorful flowers and flags, working fountains and lawned grass, clean streets…
My local friend was surprised about how casually I react to this happening in Kyrgyzstan […]

Turkmenistan-2021

Abdulgamid’s original post in Russian, 23.07.07. Translated by Merdjen
In December 2006, Neweurasia.net carried out an interesting experiment - we asked our authors to write a post on the following topic “How do I see my home country in 15 years?”. The Russian Turkmenistan blog hadn’t yet existed at that time, so we still don’t […]

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