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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Does the return of opera and other 'foreign' art signal a general opening to the outside world? (ITAR-TASS) To its fans, opera is a sublime expression of emotion conveyed through music and spectacle ...

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’ ...