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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Turkmenistan is a member of the World Bank Group (WBG) since 1992, and in 1996 the WBG opened its office in Turkmenistan. Since then, at the request of the Government, the WBG has implemented a number ...

Food rationing and shortages in Turkmenistan have been consistently reported in regional news since 2017. The Central Asian mineral resource rich country’s authoritarian government hasn’t officially ...

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 ...

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 ...