Turkmenistan

Ambassadors and members of the Palestinian community of Romania on Tuesday signed a condolence book opened at the Embassy of Palestine in Bucharest, in memory of the Palestinians killed on May 14 in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces.

Bulgaria is no longer included in the so called "Blacklist" of countries from which US protects intellectual property, bTV said. The document is known as "Special List 301". Bulgaria has invariably been in it for the past 5 years.

The Romanian-Turkmen economic and commercial relationships can register superior results, having the potential to capitalise on the business opportunities though concrete actions, Romanian Minister for Business, Trade and Entrepreneurship Stefan Radu Oprea and Turkmenistan's Finance and Economy Minister Batyr Bazarov agreed on Monday in Ashgabat.

Representatives from more than 20 countries gathered in the Uzbek capital Tashkent on Monday for an international conference on the future of Afghanistan.

Citizens of Turkmenistan are set to hit the polls on March 25, the country's election body said.

The Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB) won two gold medals and three silver medals at the 12th edition of the South Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students (SEEMOUS) first and second years that took place in Iasi, February 24 - March 4.

Construction has begun on the Afghanistan stretch of an ambitious pipeline that is to carry natural gas from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree to change the Cyrillic alphabet with the Latin alphabet, reports RIA Novosti.

This was the start for the third 100 years of linguistic reform.

Bulgaria was convicted today in Strasbourg to pay EUR 3600 moral damages and EUR 5260 for legal expenses to Djerin Hadzhieva, who lives in Varna.

The woman was born in 1988 and has dual citizenship - Turkmenistan and Russian. The state provided inhuman treatment because she was left alone to take care of herself in 2002 when she was 14 years old after her parents were arrested.

In 35 countries in the world under 20% of the population have access to the Internet. That means less than one in five people in the country can enter the global network because of lack of infrastructure, according to a study by the British company Akamai, quoted by the Daily Telegraph.