If one imagines modern Turkmenistan he can say with certainty that in ten years the world will talk about the new economic miracle – Turkmen miracle. The time in the country seems to pick up speed for little time that the most daring ideas take to be fulfilled. This fact is vividly illustrated by Avaza national tourist zone – the world class resort being created on the Caspian Sea coast.

Last week brought fresh evidence of Turkmenistan’s high international prestige, worldwide recognition of its high economic potential, the reputation of a dependable and very promising partner.

Over almost a century-long development the Turkmen power industry has made a hard but extremely productive path from primitive diesel engines producing an insignificant amount of power to high-capacity gas-turbine units.

Though, an electric power unit driven by a diesel engine was first used at the railroad car repair plant in the town of Kyzylarvat (present day Serdar) in 1906, the Turkmen power industry’s year of birth is considered 1913, when construction of Hindu Kush hydroelectric power plant was completed on the Murghab River.

Eight years ago, Vladimir Putin, who had just become the president of the Russian state, made his first international visits to the CIS countries. The new Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev, preserving his predecessor’s preferences in the foreign policy, did not start “discovering Americas” in the direct and indirect sense of a word, and in fact followed Vladimir Putin’s route he had made eight years before. Like eight years ago, visiting Ashgabat was among the priority trips in the itinerary of the Russian president.