Turkmenistan's rubberstamp parliament is about to lose its rubber stamp, again. In his inauguration address on February 17, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov said he would raise the status ...

This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 24 March 2023 Known for its autocratic government and large gas reserves, Turkmenistan has been an island of stability in restive Central ...

Turkmenistan marked its 25th year of independence on October 27 and -- while life has always been hard for the some 5 million people in the isolationist, authoritarian state -- this year’s anniversary ...

We are writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch, International Partnership for Human Rights and Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights regarding the new draft country strategy for Turkmenistan for the ...

Annexed by Russia between 1865 and 1885, Turkmenistan became a Soviet republic in 1924. It achieved independence upon the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Extensive hydrocarbon/natural gas reserves ...

A desert crater created by a 1971 gas-drilling collapse in Turkmenistan has burned for decades. Geologists set a fire to prevent the spread of gas and only expected it would burn for weeks.

On September 20, 2015, Turkmen authorities allowed Sofia Kyarizova and Elena Serebryannik to leave Turkmenistan. Kyarizova and Serebryannik joined their family in Moscow. “The authorities did the ...

As if for no reason, Turkmenistan’s migration authorities this week decided to remind the public of their basic constitutional right to free movement. An item appearing on April 17 in the news section ...

The Central Asian region is worried about the spread of the kind of militant Islam practiced by Afghanistan's Taliban movement. Just north of Afghanistan, in Turkmenistan, a nationalist -- but not ...

The return of the Taliban in Kabul looked fatal for the fortunes of Turkmenistan’s dream to build a trans-Afghan natural gas pipeline. With an internationally proscribed militant group in charge of ...

Known for its autocratic government and large gas reserves, Turkmenistan has been an island of stability in restive Central Asia. Despite the gas wealth, much of the population lives in poverty. After ...