Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a number of resolutions at a government meeting on May 12. The documents authorize the construction of new regional museums in the administrative centers of three provinces, the cities of Balkanabat, Mary and Turkmenabat.

The ministry of health and medical industry of Turkmenistan is to sign a contract with Turkish company Erku for the design and construction of a new recreation center for 500 people, a two-storey hotel, and a solarium for 300 people on the bank of Duzly lake in the Mollakara resort. A residential house with improved conveniences for 18 flats will be also built for staff. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a decree to this effect "with a view to enlarging the Mollakara resort, further strengthening its material and technical base and enhancing its services to meet recreation needs of people in full."

The Education, Science, Sports and Tourism in the Epoch of Great Revival International Exhibition opened in the Turkmen capital. The forum is organized by Education, the Supreme Council for Science and Technology under President of Turkmenistan and the State Committee for Tourism and Sports.

The exposition arranged at the Exhibition Centre vividly evidences the profound, steadily increasing interest of the international community in Turkmenistan resolutely advancing along the path of fundamental progressive reforms. That is vividly proved by respectable participation of over 60 well-known firms and companies from 30 countries worldwide representing the world’s manufacturers of computer and interactive equipment and hardware, the foreign travel and sports companies and the leading distributors and providers. The long-term as well as possible partners interested in establishing the business long-term contacts present their potential and offers for co-operation.

Each year Victory Day is celebrated in Turkmenistan as an event of imperishable value, as a nationwide holiday. Various events are arranged throughout the country to commemorate the heroic deed of the glorious defenders of the Motherland, all those, who endured the ordeals and hardships of the wartime. These include the meetings with the widows of the Turkmen soldiers, who perished in the battlefields, and the war veterans, who are held in high respect in the Turkmen state.