Price of bread in the state grocery shops remains the same – 1,000 Turkmen Manat (or 0.04 US Dollars) for one loaf.  The quality of bakery products in these state shops however plummeted to a …

Paul Theroux (mentioned by Peter), the noted American novelist and travel writer also visited Turkmenistan. Besides colourfully discribing Ashgabat as a “city without benches”, this seriosly funny guy tells many intersting things about our country …

And I never once saw (in Turkmenistan) anyone carrying or reading a newspaper.
- wrote in his blog Joshua Kucera -  a freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C. From April through September 2007 he is traveling …

[inspic=8,leftclear,,0]Agreements reached during the tripartite meeting of Heads of States of Turkmenistan, Russia and Kazakhstan in May this year have already started to be implemented.
The main topics of the meeting were cooperation in the areas …

Translated by Merdjen from the Russian blog
That is how during the daily fuss and routine of our lives we missed our dear Pushkin’s birthday. He would be 208 years old this year. Of course it …

[inspic=6,left,,200] June 7th 2007 saw the opening of a 2nd Inter-Parliamentary Conference of Central Asian Countries including Azerbaijan in Astana (Kazakhstan). This International Conference devoted to HIV and AIDS was remarkable in that it …

This is a post from our Russian blog translated by Merdjen
The world of hydrocarbon energy carrier market is hue-and-cry: Putin, Berdymuhammedov and Nazarbaev agreed to a mutually beneficial friendship and to implement Turkmen gas supply …

Translated by Merdjen from Russian blog
[inspic=5,left,,200]Only recently – some three or four years ago, a mobile phone in Turkmenistan was considered a gadget of luxury. BCTI Company owned by Mikhail Barash, citizen of the United …

[inspic=3,leftclear,,0]Difference between pessimist and optimist is known to all – pessimist sees a glass half-empty, while optimist sees a glass half full. Similarly with the news – one would think there is nothing epochal in …