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On 29 October 2009, the city court of Dashoguz imposed a five-year prison sentence on Andrei Zatoka, a well-known environmentalist and civil society activist in Turkmenistan, for the intentional infliction of medium injuries
International Turkmen-Turkish University Vice Chancellor Zeki Pektaş was honored with the Gayrat award for his commitment to and services in the field of education by the president of Turkmenistan this week.
Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov is to go to Japan in December to attend a meeting of the Turkmen-Japanese Economic Committee. He is likely to discuss plans for Japanese investments in a water desalination plant and...
Hopes for uncensored web access further threatened as international resource centres close. By IWPR staff in Central Asia (RCA No. 594, 10-Nov-09) Internet users in Turkmenistan have long complained that President Gurbanguly...
Fearing that the thousands of people travelling to Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj or pilgrimage could bring back swine flu, the governments of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have found very different solutions for reducing the...
In the hands of the Turkmen people, President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov’s regime tends to view the Internet as a dangerous implement. Yet, kept under proper supervision, Berdymukhamedov evidently feels the web can make the...
The new government seems intent on boosting Turkmenistan's dismal Internet penetration. Lately, observers of Turkmenistan find themselves asking that very question about the Internet. Turkmenistan has one of the world's lowest...
Russia's relations with its neighbors are worse than ever, and this is particularly true among the former Soviet republics. On October 9, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) held its annual summit in Chisinau. The...
BY DEIRDRE TYNAN Human rights groups are calling for top-level Western and Russian diplomatic intervention to halt the politically motivated prosecution of an environmental activist in Turkmenistan. Political and economic...
As an online community starts to develop in one of the most closed countries of the world, observers wonder about the government’s motivations. Lately, observers of Turkmenistan find themselves asking that very question about...
