Comments on: Internet in Turkmenistan: A Sign of Hope? http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:41:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: turkmenistan.neweurasia.net » If Turkmens Have Access to the Internet … http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-19092 turkmenistan.neweurasia.net » If Turkmens Have Access to the Internet … Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:16:51 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-19092 [...] 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: [...] […] 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: […]

]]> By: Turkmen http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18980 Turkmen Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:14:10 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18980 "Special art schools for gifted children will open in Ahal and Balkan provinces of Turkmenistan on April 1. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov signed a decree to this effect today." When I was 20 years old I learned that I have a talent for drawing. I think these schools have to be for all children and everywhere in Turkmenistan. Gifted children are not born they are made! Still thanks for this too. “Special art schools for gifted children will open in Ahal and Balkan provinces of Turkmenistan on April 1. Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov signed a decree to this effect today.”

When I was 20 years old I learned that I have a talent for drawing. I think these schools have to be for all children and everywhere in Turkmenistan. Gifted children are not born they are made!
Still thanks for this too.

]]> By: Mara http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18941 Mara Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:00:01 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18941 To both Turkmens :) I agree, internet itself does not equal freedom. However, I can't see the development of internet access as anything but a positive step forward. Free access to information is a dictatorship's worst enemy! Best of luck, good people of Turkmenistan!! To both Turkmens :)

I agree, internet itself does not equal freedom. However, I can’t see the development of internet access as anything but a positive step forward. Free access to information is a dictatorship’s worst enemy! Best of luck, good people of Turkmenistan!!

]]> By: Also Turkmen http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18906 Also Turkmen Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:31:24 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18906 To Mara I agree that biggest slaves are those who don't know about it. Limited access to Internet is NOT a sign of slavery. On the contrary, those who talk too much about Internet seem to replace the REAL notion of freedom with ARTIFICIAL one. Freedom starts with knowing your own culture (which has been the case in Turkmenistan) which leads to the desire to know other cultures (Internet is ONE of the ways). To Mara

I agree that biggest slaves are those who don’t know about it. Limited access to Internet is NOT a sign of slavery. On the contrary, those who talk too much about Internet seem to replace the REAL notion of freedom with ARTIFICIAL one. Freedom starts with knowing your own culture (which has been the case in Turkmenistan) which leads to the desire to know other cultures (Internet is ONE of the ways).

]]> By: Sammi http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18843 Sammi Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:22:01 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18843 It is good to talk with people in Turkmenistan. We think that you should have jobs and rights, too, and certainly the money that goes to pay bribes would be much better used for food, education, etc. Corruption is like cancer to a country. It makes it sick. Turkmenistan should be for its people not for corrupt officials and others. So be strong and firm in your beliefs, and we will all work together for things to improve!!! You have many friends who care about you. It is good to talk with people in Turkmenistan. We think that you should have jobs and rights, too, and certainly the money that goes to pay bribes would be much better used for food, education, etc. Corruption is like cancer to a country. It makes it sick. Turkmenistan should be for its people not for corrupt officials and others. So be strong and firm in your beliefs, and we will all work together for things to improve!!! You have many friends who care about you.

]]> By: Mara http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18840 Mara Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:01:05 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18840 to Turkmen--in my opinion the only real slaves are those who don't know they ARE slaves. If you still know what wishes, interests and hope are, and if you can imagine a better future, then you aren't really a complete slave. :) I can't imagine how difficult things must be in Turkmenistan but I do believe things are beginning to change--this report on internet access etc. is very encouraging! to Turkmen–in my opinion the only real slaves are those who don’t know they ARE slaves. If you still know what wishes, interests and hope are, and if you can imagine a better future, then you aren’t really a complete slave. :) I can’t imagine how difficult things must be in Turkmenistan but I do believe things are beginning to change–this report on internet access etc. is very encouraging!

]]> By: Turkmen http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18831 Turkmen Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:37:02 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18831 Non Fiction: We used to have soldiers in our home working for food. They were brought to our home to work by their commanders. Mayors would get bribe for giving us labors. Now, sergeants come to people's houses and sell or exchange soldiers' food for cigarets, socks, money. How many weak and Russians were killed in these Armies? Less than a month ago my brother died there. He was 19, studied only 3-4 grades at school. Went to Russia earn money for living at the age of 13-14. Now, when he came back after 5 years away of his motherland without visa and crossed the border illigally he was put in jail for 10 days. Then he sent invitation to his pregnant bride in Uzbekistan. They waited for 3 months for this visa and they didn't give it to her. "You are no one to him, you are not his wife to go to Turkmenistan" was said in the Embassy to her. But it was told in the invitation that he is inviting her to his country to get married. Now, after waiting for 3 months for her he died. He didn't see her, they didn't live together. The baby will be born without a father. My friend was cought in Turkmenbashi because he was on vacation. The police men were stunned when they heard that he, turkmen was on vacation. They put him to jail because he is baptized turkmen in Russian Orthodox Church. In the jail there was a concrete floor where people were freezing. After a while a big man came and pulled them out of the cage in order to get them work in his home. My friend refused to go so he was taken by the mayor who had a long talk and ......... There was time when people couldn't get passports for the reason that the covering of the Turkmen passports were printed in Britain and Britain run out of printers! I waited my passport for 7 months and when I got tired of this bullshit I urged the passport giver to give it to me imediatly. He said that he will put me into jail if I stand for my rights. Children coming to our houses asking for empty plastic bottles are common scene I was asked to live my secondary school because my mother promised a present to the principal of my school and didn't give it to her. Let that dead machines pick up cotton. 8th and 9th graders pick up cotton for September,October and November and breathe the dust. Yes, that is it. If Turkmens have access to the internet then they will read this and continue my story. Non Fiction: We used to have soldiers in our home working for food. They were brought to our home to work by their commanders. Mayors would get bribe for giving us labors. Now, sergeants come to people’s houses and sell or exchange soldiers’ food for cigarets, socks, money. How many weak and Russians were killed in these Armies?
Less than a month ago my brother died there. He was 19, studied only 3-4 grades at school. Went to Russia earn money for living at the age of 13-14. Now, when he came back after 5 years away of his motherland without visa and crossed the border illigally he was put in jail for 10 days. Then he sent invitation to his pregnant bride in Uzbekistan. They waited for 3 months for this visa and they didn’t give it to her. “You are no one to him, you are not his wife to go to Turkmenistan” was said in the Embassy to her. But it was told in the invitation that he is inviting her to his country to get married. Now, after waiting for 3 months for her he died. He didn’t see her, they didn’t live together. The baby will be born without a father.
My friend was cought in Turkmenbashi because he was on vacation. The police men were stunned when they heard that he, turkmen was on vacation. They put him to jail because he is baptized turkmen in Russian Orthodox Church. In the jail there was a concrete floor where people were freezing. After a while a big man came and pulled them out of the cage in order to get them work in his home. My friend refused to go so he was taken by the mayor who had a long talk and ………
There was time when people couldn’t get passports for the reason that the covering of the Turkmen passports were printed in Britain and Britain run out of printers! I waited my passport for 7 months and when I got tired of this bullshit I urged the passport giver to give it to me imediatly. He said that he will put me into jail if I stand for my rights.
Children coming to our houses asking for empty plastic bottles are common scene
I was asked to live my secondary school because my mother promised a present to the principal of my school and didn’t give it to her.
Let that dead machines pick up cotton. 8th and 9th graders pick up cotton for September,October and November and breathe the dust.
Yes, that is it. If Turkmens have access to the internet then they will read this and continue my story.

]]> By: Jummi http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18828 Jummi Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:53:33 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18828 Communism!? Communism!?

]]> By: Turkmen http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18826 Turkmen Wed, 21 Feb 2007 18:26:05 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18826 I have a mind of slave Because of my parents' slave mind that gave me slavery life Nothing brilliant comes out of my mind Wishes, Interests, Hope in my live were banned Log ago, when I was a child Who did it? I have a mind of slave
Because of my parents’ slave mind
that gave me slavery life
Nothing brilliant comes out of my mind
Wishes, Interests, Hope in my live were banned
Log ago, when I was a child
Who did it?

]]> By: Other http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18820 Other Wed, 21 Feb 2007 12:38:32 +0000 http://turkmenistan.neweurasia.net/2007/02/20/internet-in-turkmenistan-a-sign-of-hope/#comment-18820 Internet is good for Turkmenistan. It removes all barriers and gives almost complete freedom for business and for knowledge. I believe that every turkemen will have it for pennies at home with 100 MBit broadband connection. And there are a lot of people specially bloggers who earn their living from the internet. (www.problogger.net) Internet is the great opportunity to make every user equal all around the world. You don't need to be in US or UK for earn thousands. you can be at your home and enjoy that equality. What you will say if next big web 2.0 is made in Turkmenistan by turkmen people. Next google, youtube or myspace. Also for those who take bribes they will be soon ashamed of themselves as people will discuss and ban it on the internet. Internet is good for Turkmenistan. It removes all barriers and gives almost complete freedom for business and for knowledge. I believe that every turkemen will have it for pennies at home with 100 MBit broadband connection. And there are a lot of people specially bloggers who earn their living from the internet. (www.problogger.net) Internet is the great opportunity to make every user equal all around the world. You don’t need to be in US or UK for earn thousands. you can be at your home and enjoy that equality.

What you will say if next big web 2.0 is made in Turkmenistan by turkmen people. Next google, youtube or myspace.

Also for those who take bribes they will be soon ashamed of themselves as people will discuss and ban it on the internet.

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