October 6, Turkmenistan commemorates the Day of Memory - a national commemoration of the heroes who were killed in battlefields of all wars, as well as the victims of the Ashgabat catastrophic earthquake of 1948. On the occasion of the mournful date, national flags are lowered across the country, memorial moleben are held everywhere and Sadaqah (immolations) are given.  President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov attended the mourning ceremony of laying wreaths at the monuments of the...

The delegation of Turkmenistan headed by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan V.Hadjiev took part in the 68th session of the Executive Committee of the Program of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on October 2-6, 2017. On October 3, 2017, the head of the Turkmen delegation delivered a speech in which it was pointed out that the world community needed to strengthen its work on resolving the pressing issues of the global agenda rel...

Turkmenhimiya state enterprice chemical company is currently building the country’s largest ammonia and urea plant. The required feedstock for the fertiliser project, which integrates an ammonia plant and a urea plant, will be sourced from the country’s abundant natural gas reserves. Upon the commissioning of the facility next year it will be the largest fertilizer production factory in the country with a daily production capacity of 3,500 tons of granule urea and 2,000 ammoniac, most of which w...

A groundbreaking ceremony was held in Ovadan-Depe near the capital of Ashgabad in Turkmenistan to launch the construction of a major plant focused on the conversion of natural gas into synthetic gasoline. The plant will be based on Haldor Topsoe’s TIGAS™ (Topsoe Improved Gasoline Synthesis) technology and will become the first full scale large commercial facility using this technology. The high quality, high value gasoline from natural gas, shale gas, associated gas, coal, pet coke or even bi...

On October 2, 2017, the opening ceremony of the Days of Culture of the Russian Federation in Turkmenistan was held. The creative action is timed to the official visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Ashgabat and demonstrates the importance of the cultural and humanitarian sphere in the strategic partnership of the two friendly states. Representatives of the sphere of culture, mass media, creative intelligentsia, the youth of the capital, and numerous admirers of art of the Russian peop...

On October 2, 2017, Ashgabat hosted a meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan R. Meredov and the delegation of the Russian Federation headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov, who arrived in Ashgabat a day before. During the talks, noting the high dynamics of the political interstate dialogue, the sides discussed the current state of relations and exchanged views and proposals on the development of a complex of bilateral relatio...

A delegation of Turkmenistan headed by Maksat Babayev, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, visited production facilities of TATNEFT in Nizhnekamsk and Almetyevsk within the framework of a two-day visit to Tatarstan. The delegation included executives of large state concerns and corporations of Turkmenistan, including Turkmenneft, Turkmengaz, Turkmengeologia, as well as representatives of the Turkmenbashy oil refinery complex. The guests met with the management of TATNEFT and Nail...