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: What Is Life Like For Ordinary People In Turkmenistan?
Things don’t seem to change in Turkmenistan, and if they do, it’s never for the better. Throughout its entire post-Soviet history, the country has been ruled by eccentric dictators. It has long been ...
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: 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: Life carries on as usual in Tajikistan and Turkmenistan
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News Turkmenistan » Life: Turkmenistan: USAID Official Recounts Life in the Land of Turkmenbashi
Living in 21st century Turkmenistan on the US government's tab is life in the poor man's Raj. Like the clerk of Queen Victoria's most remote outposts before him, today's USAID functionary can't spend ...
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 ...