Editor’s note: This is a translation of Abdulgamid’s post, which is part of the neweurasia cross-blog survey about humour in Central Asia. In keeping with the subject, the article contains words and phrases that some people may find crude and/or offensive.
Epigraph
“There’s already a sense of wonder in the growing itchiness…”
Sasha Blo in Generation P, […]

Turkmenistan is the second-biggest producer and exporter of natural gas in the CIS, after Russia. The vast majority of its supplies go to Russia’s Gazprom monopoly in order to be re-exported to Ukraine and lucrative markets abroad.
Gazprom supplies about one-fifth of gas consumed by the European Union.
This is Peter’s comment on Abdulgamid’s post:
Combine with this […]

Famous Turkmen singer Akysh Saparow is as popular as 20 years ago.
His contribution to national popculture is immeasurable, and he deserved to be called “Turkmen Frank Sinatra”.

Looking back at the Spring 2007, especially at May 25th, which is traditionally last day of school and graduation ceremonies are held at every secondary school around post-soviet region, including Turkmenistan. But there were none this year… for the Turkmen good!
Fortunately, there was no graduating class 2007 even though many school students had already […]