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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 […]

“None of Turkmenistan libraries wins the best library award”

This headline stands out of many more important news topics as this governmental portal never publishes anything negative, even within its choice of wording. Even reporting on another fired official by Turkmen president is showing his care about well-being of Turkmen people.
Unexpectedly (or actually it should’ve been obvious) article tells that
By the decision of the competent jury, all six libraries were […]

When Good Neighbours Become Good Friends

Posted by Peter | in News Update, Politics, International Affairs | on October 18th, 2007
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“A good neighbour policy is the guiding principle of the Turkmen leader’s foreign policy, which in being implemented through collaborative practices with both border countries and beyond. Turkmen-Uzbek relations are a convincing case of the fruitfulness of such cooperation.”
An excerpt from a commentary by the Turkmen state news agency after President Saparmurat Niyazov’s visit to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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