On 26 June, the Russian State Library's Centre for Oriental Literature, in cooperation with the Embassy of Turkmenistan to the Russian Federation, hosted a lecture entitled ‘Turkmenistan through the prism of language’, dedicated to the contemporary development of the Turkmen language and its role in socio-cultural processes. This was reported by the news agency Orient.

During the event, Maya Klycheva, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences and Associate Professor at MGIMO, gave a presentation. She presented the results of a sociolinguistic analysis, spoke about the teaching of the Turkmen language in Russia and highlighted social changes in Turkmenistan through the prism of language.

M. Klycheva also noted that the Turkmen language was included in the MGIMO programme in the early 2000s on the initiative of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry, with the support of universities in Turkmenistan. Graduates who speak the language work, among other places, at the Russian Embassy in Ashgabat.

The discussion concluded with a discussion of the development of the Turkmen language in business and journalism, as well as improving the quality of editing in Turkmen-language media.