Richard Morningstar, the U.S. secretary of state's special envoy for Eurasian energy, is in Turkmenistan.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Azbulis, whose country currently holds the rotating OSCE chairmanship, visited Turkmenistan and urged Turkmen officials to lift restrictions for registering nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
The international human rights monitoring organization Freedom House has included Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan on its list of the world's worst human rights abusers
Turkmen media have announced the adoption of a new law on presidential elections. According to the new law, a presidential candidate must have the backing of a political party or collect 50,000 signatures to register and compete.
The Fall: Twenty Years After The Collapse Of The USSR - Turkmenistan: 'The Last Soviet Diploma'
Turkmenistan's greatest contribution to the galaxy to date has been when its eccentric former ruler, Saparmurat Niyazov, sent a copy of his spiritual guide "Rukhnama" into space via a Russian rocket launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome located in neighboring Kazakhstan.
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov has signed a decree establishing a new national space agency for the mostly desert Central Asian country of some five million people.
There is good news for Mongolian nomads on both sides of the Russian-Mongolian border: Your centuries-old traditional dwelling is about to receive a welcome upgrade.
A ranking member of the Afghan High Peace Council has added a new name to the list of possible hosts for peace talks with the Taliban. He even described it as "one of the most promising." It's Turkmenistan.
The European Parliament has postponed a decision to upgrade the European Union’s relationship with Turkmenistan until July and might even delay the process till the autumn.
The world became slightly less peaceful in the past year, punctuated by violent uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, but also marked by successes in countries like Slovenia and Georgia.
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov took part in the opening ceremony for the aggregation of palaces on May 18. The facilities reportedly cost some 250 million euros ($350 million) to build.
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