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 My beloved Country, My dear People!

It is now ten years since the establishment of independent and eternally neutral Türkmenistan. In these ten years the Türkmen has totally changed; he believed in his being a great nation and this state is his state. He possessed his own freedom, sovereignty, land, water, state and his country. In these ten years, we have developed economically and gained a place among the leading countries in the world. This is a significant and honourable achievement of ours. This is the warranty of the industriousness of our people and their brilliant power.

The Republic of Türkmenistan has surpassed in a month the distance which would normally be crossed in a year. It has been observed that Türkmenistan is progressing towards being a rich and developed country. All have seen this, friends, foreigners, even the blind! Although, in the beginning, there were some people with bad intentions who mindlessly criticized our ways, even they have now understood the rightness of our path. Now we are proud of how Türkmenistan has joined the top ranks of the developing countries, in terms of social and economic advancement.

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 Ruhnama is truly the “Oguznama” of the third millennium. If we try to express it using the name of our nation, which will be widely known along with its achievements, Ruhnama will be our nation’s “Türkmennama”