{"id":26354,"date":"2026-09-28T07:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=26354"},"modified":"2026-09-28T07:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T01:52:42","slug":"putin-congratulates-turkmenistan-on-independence-day-pledges-to-strengthen-strategic-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=26354","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Putin Congratulates Turkmenistan on Independence Day, Pledges to Strengthen Strategic Partnership<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dragon Media News Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message congratulating Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov on his country\u2019s Independence Day. In the message sent on September 27, Putin pledged to continue strengthening the strategic partnership between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said Turkmenistan was making progress in social and economic development under Berdimuhamedov\u2019s leadership. He also credited the country\u2019s policy of positive neutrality with helping to strengthen security and stability in Central Asia and the Caspian region.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and Turkmenistan cooperate across a range of fields and coordinate on major international issues, Putin said. 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Putin said Turkmenistan was making progress in social and economic development under Berdimuhamedov\u2019s leadership. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Putin Congratulates Turkmenistan on Independence Day, Pledges to Strengthen Strategic Partnership - Dragon Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message congratulating Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov on his country\u2019s Independence Day.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=26354\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Putin Congratulates Turkmenistan on Independence Day, Pledges to Strengthen Strategic Partnership - 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