The Eurasian Film Award should be "powerful" from a financial point of view. The payout for the best film should be $1 million. Nikita Mikhalkov, chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation, said this in response to a question from TASS, the Russian agency reports.

On December 11, in honor of the 28th anniversary of Turkmenistan’s neutrality, the exhibition “Bitaraplyk – bagtyň baky bahary” will be held in the exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat.

Reingold Moritsevich Gliere is a famous musician, Russian and Soviet composer, conductor, teacher, musical and public figure, who had a great influence on the formation of the professional composition school of Turkmenistan. So in 1935-1936 he was in Ashgabat and listened to young musicians here. On his recommendation, the most gifted of them, future composers and musicians: Ashir Kuliev, Veli Mukhadov, Khydyr Allanurov, Annagul Annakulieva, Maya Kulieva and others, were sent to study at the Turkmen department at the Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky and received professional education.

The painting exhibition “Our Asia” continues in Ivanovo, which ORIENT not only talked about, but also helped find Turkmen works for the project. In December, among the canvases of Eastern artists who decorated the ArtHab gallery of contemporary art, there will be sounded poems by Asian poets, including Magtymguly.

The film "Daragt” by Turkmen director Sahysalyh Bayramov was awarded a special diploma from the chairman of the jury of the XXIX Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad” Igor Ugolnikov, a famous Russian actor, film director, screenwriter, producer and TV presenter.

In honor of the upcoming celebration of the Day of Neutrality of Turkmenistan, a creative evening of composer, People's Artist of Turkmenistan, laureate of the state prize Magtymguly Dangatar Hydyrov was held in the Great Hall of the Maya Kulieva Turkmen National Conservatoire.

The four members of the South Korean group BTS - RM (Kim Namjoon), Jimin, V (aka Kim Taehyung) and Jungkook - have initiated the process of fulfilling their military service obligations. BIGHIT MUSIC's agency confirmed the news in an official statement on the Weverse platform.

The Embassy of Turkmenistan in Pakistan together with the Islamabad Institute for Peace Studies and Diplomacy held a scientific and practical conference "Magtymguly Pyragy and friendship of peoples in the modern world" dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the great thinker and classic poet of the East Magtymguly Pyragy.

On November 24, at the awarding ceremony of the winners of the XXIX Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad", the winner of the special prize of the CIS Executive Committee "Cinema without Borders" was determined. He was awarded two films at once – the Turkmen film "Daragt" (for the Belarusian audience it was translated as "The Tree of Destiny") and the Uzbek "Evolution".

Creative Week starts in Baku on November 29, during which fashion collections from designers from Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan will be shown.