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 […]

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 […]

Following the Central Asian film and music festival in Prague, I spoke to Murad Rakhimov (on the photo), a Turkmen dutar (national two string instrument) musician and member of “Silk Road Band” comprised of Central Asian and Afghani musicians in Prague. Listen to two passages of dutar and read the story of Murad, who […]