This post on Internet in Turkmenistan, caused a discussion on whether Internet is important at all in a country where there are no jobs and bribery is blossoming. One comment particularly caught our attention and I am posting it here:
Turkmen said,
on February 21st, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Non Fiction: We used to have soldiers […]
A curious item appeared in the Russian media early last week regarding the murder in September of the first deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank Andrei Kozlov.
After 35-year-old Russian citizen Alexei Frenkel was arrested in Moscow on Jan. 11 for ordering Kozlov’s murder, it was widely assumed that the case had been all […]
Further important ministerial appointments by President Kurbanguly Berdymuhammedov have trickled out of Turkmenistan, this time touching on some of the country’s most influential political assignments.
At the 11th session of the third legislature of the Turkmen Mejlis on Feb. 23, deputies approved the appointment of Yashgeldy Esenov as chairman of the Supreme Court, Muhammed Ogushkov […]
An Associated Press article appeared in the International Herald Tribune in mid-February suggesting that Turkey could hold the path to Turkmenistan developing a more open foreign policy.
In addition to citing the standard tropes about similar language and cultural heritage, the writer suggests that the unrivalled access enjoyed by Turkish media and delegation was indicative […]
The flurry of edicts and appointments, and symbolic meetings and events in Turkmenistan since the election of the new president, Kurbanguly Berdymuhammedov, has been head-spinning. A quick summary of the last two or so weeks should help to put this in some perspective:
On Feb. 12, one day after the presidential elections, a Turkmentelecom official […]
Recent elections in Turkmenistan, where Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov won an overwhelming victory, came as no surprise for those who followed the events in the country after the sudden death of Saparmurat Niyazov. The US State Department called the elections a “modest step forward”. More steps were to come: compulsory education was extended from nine to […]
