Turkmenistan News News Turkmenistan » Life: Behind the Marble Walls: A Glimpse Into Turkmenistan
Getting into Turkmenistan wasn’t easy – despite the country’s official website claiming that my passport allowed visa-free entry for up to 30 days. The reality was quite the opposite. As one of the ...
News Turkmenistan » Life: Turkmenistan: A dog’s life
Nine days after Amandurdy Ishanov was fired as Turkmenistan’s Trade and Foreign Economic Relations Minister, he reappeared on state television. It was not to accept a new post, but to publicly admit ...
News Turkmenistan » Life: Hundreds Of Ethnic Kazakhs In Turkmenistan Emigrate, Happy To Leave Lives Of Poverty, Repression
ZHANAOZEN, Kazakhstan -- More than 250 ethnic Kazakhs have left Turkmenistan this month to resettle permanently in their ancestral homeland, Kazakhstan. One train carrying ethnic Kazakh emigrants was ...
News Turkmenistan » Life: Internet life in Turkmenistan detected!
Turkmenistan is known to have one of the most tightly controlled Internet environments in the world. But even in such an inhospitable atmosphere, there appears to be enough web energy to give life to ...
News Turkmenistan » Life: Life under bizarre rules in a closed state: Cars and empty shelves inside Turkmenistan
A recent LADBIBLE report on Turkmenistan highlights how these rules affect ordinary experiences, from shopping to communication, in one of the world’s most closed countries. Access to information is ...
News Turkmenistan » Life: Prove You're Not Dead, Turkmenistan Tells Its Pensioners
Twice a year in Turkmenistan, older citizens must scramble for documents proving to their authoritarian government that they are still alive and eligible for their meager pensions. The requirement for ...
News Turkmenistan » Life: Life carries on as usual in Tajikistan and Turkmenistan
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News Turkmenistan » Life: New life with new documents for Azerbaijan refugee in Turkmenistan
Most refugees in Turkmenistan have been living there for decades. They learnt local languages, some established families and have de-facto integrated. Refugees have access to local schools and medical ...
News Turkmenistan » Life: Turkmenistan: Life of Turkmen Conscripts
Maciula tells about terrible situation of coscripts in the Turkmen army – reportedly, they escape from military bases, sell their forms and sometimes also guns, and then they hide in their relatives’ ...