The nature of Turkmenistan is rich and varied. Walking along the picturesque gorges of the Kopetdag Mountains, one often sees tall, slender trees with smooth bark and beautiful emerald foliage. This is dagdan, also called the Caucasian hackberry. Lovers of mountain travel know that these trees grow near mountain springs, covering them with lacy shade. Dagdan grows mainly in picturesque corners of mountain gorges, where water accumulates in the depths of rocks, in crevices. In the folklore...

Turkmenistan is a party to 11 environmental conventions, including the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, the UN Convention on Biodiversity, the Framework (Tehran) Convention for the Protection of Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea, the Ramsar Convention, etc., actively implementing their provisions in its environmental strategies and programs. Protection of atmospheric air, preservation of biodiversity, development of “green belts”, effective management of water, land and forest resour...

115 transactions were registered at the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan. Businessmen from Russia, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, the UK, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Uzbekistan among others purchased aviation kerosene, gasoline, liquefied gas, calcined petroleum coke, hydrotreated diesel fuel, low-sulfur fuel oil, produced at the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries, as well as liquefied gas, produced by Türkmengaz Group of Companies, and liquef...

A series of international seminars and round tables was held with the participation and organization of the Government of Turkmenistan and the OSCE, on topical modern challenges and social trends. As the "GA" correspondent was informed at the OSCE Center in Ashgabat, a two-day online roundtable meeting was organized with national partners involved in the implementation of the National Human Rights Action Plan (NHRAP) for 2021-2025, which took place on 3 and 4 August 2021 year. The meeting ser...

The caravanbashy who drove caravans to Khiva and back to the Kopetdag and to the Caspian knew this river valley well, stretching from Sarykamysh to the Kelker salt marsh and further along the Aktam channel to the Balkhan Shore. On the caravan road there were wells with fresh water, and in the valley of Western Uzboy there were lakes with fresh and salt water, salt marshes and mineral mud. On the caravan trail behind the Adjiku bend near the oxbow Uzboy, travelers who were languishing with thirst...

9Aug The digital five can be a good name for the Central Asian Digital Information Platform (CACIP), which combines climate data on all countries in the region: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. This unique intellectual platform was developed by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) commissioned by the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC) within the framework of the World Bank/EC IFAS regional project “Cli...

Turkmen students won 9 medals of all three values at the end of the 28th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMC-2021), organized jointly by University College London (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and American University (Bulgaria). The annual Mathematics Olympiad gathered on its site this year about 600 students from 113 higher educational institutions of one hundred countries of the world - Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Poland, Israel, the...