Olga Fominichna Mizgireva was one of those who stood at the origins of the birth of the Turkmen national fine arts. She was born in 1908 in Tashkent, later her family moved to Turkmenistan. From her youth, carried away by painting, Olga strove to get an art education. For her luck, in 1920, on the initiative of the artists Ruvim Mazel, Mikhail Libakov and Alexander Vladychuk, an art studio was organized in Ashgabat, later called the "Shock School of the Arts of the East" (USHIV). It was the g...

On the 16th of July 2021, the Turkmen delegation headed by the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov participated to the High Level International Conference “Central and South Asia: Regional Interconnectivity. Challenges and Opportunities”. The Conference was attended by more than 250 participants from 40 countries of the world, among whom the heads of states and governments, leadership of the external policy agencies, chiefs of r...

The art of bakhshi (bakhshychylyk) is one of the ancient ones. The bakhshi, storyteller of national epos – dastans, is a master of word, skilful musician and singer. Using all forms of live national language, he should manage to interest his listener. In the history of Turkmen there are a lot of talented bakhshis, who have won the true love of people. One of them is Durdymyrat Berdiyev who is known by the name Umyt bakhshi. He has left a large number of songs, numerous dastans and poetic w...

Today, on the 15th of July, the Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov met with the U.S. Homeland Security Advisor Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall. The U.S. Special representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad also participated to the meeting. The parties discussed the key aspects of Turkmen-American cooperation, in particular in the field of security. In this context, the importance of bilateral and multilateral me...

The admission of documents from entrants, who want to enter higher and secondary vocational education institutions, goes on in the capital and regions of the country. Admission and entrance examinations are organised in the country during the period from July 12 to August 27. The State Commission has been set up especially to supervise the admission campaign during its period of operation. Certain changes dictated by modern the dynamical development of national education, introduction of inte...

On July 15, 2021, a meeting of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredow with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Faysal bin Farhan Al-Saud was held in Tashkent. During the talk the sides highly evaluated the level of interstate ties which are consistently strengthened on the basis of trustful and regular dialogue on the highest level. The key aspects of Turkmen-Saudi agenda in political, trade-economic and cultural-humanitarian spheres were...

Summing up the results of the first six months of 2021during the enlarged meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov emphasized that the GDP growth rate exceeded 6.1 percent. The President of Turkmenistan noted that large-scale construction of industrial and social facilities had continued in the country. In particular, according to the Turkmen leader, about 2.500 large objects amounted to over 37 billion US dollars are currently being built in th...