The Guardian: IOC turns a blind eye to Turkmenistan using sport to legitimise...
Kieran Pender The Guardian A regime with one of the world’s worst human rights record is staging the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games and the IOC – like Australia, which will be represented – is...
View ArticleHow activists are fighting this authoritarian leader with parody videos
Gianluca Mezzofiore Mashable Sometimes it’s hard to discern a parody from its original. Like in this bizarre propaganda footage above, showing the 60-year-old president of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly...
View ArticleShrinking exports spell trouble for Turkmenistan
But the authoritarian president pins his hopes on a “Turkmen Las Vegas”. WHEN the price of natural gas was high, Turkmenistan raked in $10bn a year from exports—a tidy sum for a country of 5m people....
View ArticleAnother journalist held in Turkmenistan’s never-ending crackdown
Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Khudayberdy Allashov, a correspondent for the Turkmen service of Radio Free Europe/Radio...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: Shortages in the Era of Might and Happiness
Turkmenistan celebrated the 25th anniversary of independence recently with a mass show of pomp and ceremony, yet many households are struggling to keep pace with the cost of living. Dependent on...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: Dissident’s Brother Dies After Beating
Turkmen authorities should investigate the suspicious death of the brother of an exiled dissident journalist from Turkmenistan, Human Rights Watch said today. Altymurad Annamuradov died on September 4,...
View ArticleWhy Did Turkmenistan Scrap the Ministry of Oil and Gas?
Facing economic crisis, the resource-rich country abolished two key ministries. Turkmenistan’s 2016 has brought an apparently endless series of high-level shifts, scoldings, and sackings. President...
View ArticleRFE/RL Calls On Turkmenistan To Release Journalist
Saparmamed Nepeskuliev, a contributor to RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service and other independent news outlets, is imprisoned in an undisclosed location in Turkmenistan after being arrested and held...
View ArticleNeutral Turkmenistan Chooses A Side In Afghan Conflict
Turkmenistan’s official policy of “positive neutrality” appears to have been slightly punctured, and the source of this perforation is Afghanistan. RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service, known locally as Azatlyk,...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: Dissident’s Family Allowed to Leave
Turkmen authorities dropped a 13-year travel ban against three family members of an exiled dissident, Pirkuli Tanrykuliev, allowing them to leave the country on June 4, 2016, a coalition of human...
View ArticleTurkmenistan’ Endless Shuffle Of Officials
Bruce Pannier The head of Turkmenistan’s presidential administration, Shamukhammet Durdylyev, and officials at the Ashgabat mayor’s office are probably very nervous these days. Turkmen President...
View ArticleTurkmen Special Services Increasing Pressure on Dissidents Abroad
Against a backdrop of growing international criticism of the human rights situation in Turkmenistan, the country’s security services have stepped up operations aimed at suppressing the voices of exiled...
View ArticleMore than half Ashgabad’s mosques now destroyed
Felix Corley In early April, Aksa Mosque in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabad became the eighth of the city’s mosques to have been summarily destroyed in the city in recent years. The Mosque – built in...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: EU Trade Pact Advances Minus Rights Progress
Human Rights Watch The European Union is moving ahead on a key trade agreement with Turkmenistan even though the government has failed to meet related human rights benchmarks, Human Rights Watch said...
View ArticleBeyond Pipeline Politics: Prospects Of Pakistan-Turkmenistan Relations – OpEd
Nasurullah Brohi Pakistan has been seeking to increase its relationship with the countries in the Central Asian region. The warmth of pursuing such a foreign policy is particularly inspired with the...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: Dissident’s Brother Dies After Beating
Turkmen authorities should investigate the suspicious death of the brother of an exiled dissident journalist from Turkmenistan, Human Rights Watch said today. Altymurad Annamuradov died on September 4,...
View ArticleWhy Did Turkmenistan Scrap the Ministry of Oil and Gas?
Facing economic crisis, the resource-rich country abolished two key ministries. Turkmenistan’s 2016 has brought an apparently endless series of high-level shifts, scoldings, and sackings. President...
View ArticleRFE/RL Calls On Turkmenistan To Release Journalist
Saparmamed Nepeskuliev, a contributor to RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service and other independent news outlets, is imprisoned in an undisclosed location in Turkmenistan after being arrested and held...
View ArticleNeutral Turkmenistan Chooses A Side In Afghan Conflict
Turkmenistan’s official policy of “positive neutrality” appears to have been slightly punctured, and the source of this perforation is Afghanistan. RFE/RL’s Turkmen Service, known locally as Azatlyk,...
View ArticleTurkmenistan: Dissident’s Family Allowed to Leave
Turkmen authorities dropped a 13-year travel ban against three family members of an exiled dissident, Pirkuli Tanrykuliev, allowing them to leave the country on June 4, 2016, a coalition of human...
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