President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has decided to take another step to undo his predecessor’s personality cult. At the expanded government meeting on May 2, it was decided
to relocate the Neutrality Arch to the southern area of Ashgabat. It was noted that it would be expedient to locate this monument in the southern part of Ashgabat […]

Political power in Turkmenistan is concentrated in the hands of the president; the names of other Turkmen politicians rarely appear in the press releases concerning the most important events in the country. However, this does not mean that officials from Berdymukhammedov’s inner circle have no influence over the state policy. Let us take a closer […]

They were admired already by Alexander the Great, who had a horse of that breed called Bucephalus. Marco Polo, the famous Medieval traveller, also wrote about them. Beautiful, noble, tenacious, capable of surviving many days in the desert without water, they are the pride of the Turkmen and one of the symbols of their […]

Below is the translation of Abdulgamid’s post from Russian blog.
If someone ever has had any doubts that the earlier the territory of Turkmenistan had been inhabited with dinosaurs, then today now these doubts are completely dispelled.Geologists from Kughitang Exploration Company, a division of “TurkmenGeology” State Corporation, found petrified saurian footprints in the Eastern Turkmenistan […]

I took these photos in September last year in ancient Merv, located near modern town of Mary in eastern Turkmenistan. If you would like to read about Merv click here or here.

The February issue of ‘Turkmenistan’, a monthly published in Moscow under the auspices of Turkmen authorities and containing pure propaganda, published a piece about the Turkmenbashi Museum in Ashgabat. First the author lingers over the significance of gifts in diplomacy, handed to heads of states by foreign delegations. He also quotes several interesting stories from […]