The national gardening campaign of the spring season will be held this year in Turkmenistan on March 16.

The next round of Turkmen-Russian political consultations was held in Ashgabat on Friday, March 1. The delegations were headed by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Ahmed Gurbanov and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Vershinin.

Head of the Communications Department of the Turkish Presidential Administration, Fahrettin Altun, noted the importance of the language of art and cinema.

The next meeting of the working groups of the Joint Uzbek-Turkmen Demarcation Commission was held in Turkmenabat from February 21 to 27.

Turkmen participants of the World Youth Festival flew from Ashgabat to Sochi on Thursday night. TASS reported this, citing a source at the Russian Embassy in Turkmenistan.

Every four years we have February 29th – except for those that fall at the turn of the century, unless the year is divided by 400. One of these confusing stories about how leap years work was told by the BBC.

On February 27, Kazan hosted a significant meeting of the rectors of two leading universities: the Oguz Han University of Engineering Technologies of Turkmenistan (UET) and the Kazan National Research Technological University (KNRTU-KSTU). The meeting was held with the participation of the Consul General of Turkmenistan in Kazan, Guych Garayev. This is reported on the website of the Consulate General of Turkmenistan in Kazan.

Schoolchildren from Turkmenistan won at the Teeneagle International English Olympiad, which took place from February 18 to February 25 in the capital of Malaysia, the city of Kuala Lumpur.

On February 27-28, a training seminar on ethical reporting by journalists of issues related to global challenges was held at the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan. The event was organized by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Safe Migration in Central Asia program and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

At the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Romania, it was held a meeting with the co- chairman of the interparliamentary Turkmen-Romanian friendship group, deputy Anquetillier-Karoly Kolchar.