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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’ ...