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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: 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: Meet the dictator who rules secretive Turkmenistan, who portrays himself as an action hero and shows off by lifting gold bars in parliament
You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov serves as the head of one of the world's most secretive countries, leading a country with a ...
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: 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: Turkmenistan: Tough Life of the Rich
Maciula writes about the dismissal of a top Turkmen official, chief of the Taxation Service and describes the difficulties that rich people face in Turkmenistan. Global Voices stands out as one of the ...
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 ...