The oppositionist Turkmenistan Chronicles have recently published an article about human rights violations by Turkmen border guards. It describes the case of a Tazagul Saparova, who was detained for several hours at the Kunyaurgench border checkpoint between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
She presented her passport and the son’s birth certificate to a border guard. […]. She […]
Below is the translation of Abdulgamid’s post from the Russian-language blog.
Another news that holds out hope of changes yet taking place in the country. The reports that you hardly could think of in Niyazov’s time more frequently appear in official mass media.
The President of Turkmenistan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces has severely […]
On March 3, president Berdymukhamedov made another “personnel” decision which will further strengthen his power. During the Security Council session, he announced the dismissal of the Prosecutor General Mukhammedkuli Ogshukov and strongly criticized him.
The “sloppiness and self-interestedness” of the prosecutor’s office employees were the main reason of the uncovered shortcomings. President Berdymukhamedov personally informed […]
The Voice of Freedom analytical bulletin of 18 January published an interesting article about Turkmen students studying in Kyrgyzstan who are afraid of tell the truth about the situation in their homeland.
Khalyk Dustyyev (which is not the true name of the author), a Turkmen student and a journalist based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, lists a […]
The oppositionist website called the Turkmenistan Chronicle has published a very interesting article, or rather a short note, about the problem of desertion among the Turkmen conscripts. The authors claim that this is becoming a mass-scale problem. Conscripts escape from military bases, sell their forms and sometimes also guns. Then they hide in their […]
Translation of Abdulgamid’s original post in Russian from 11.10.2007
Minister of Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan, Hojamurat Annagurbanov had his carrier burned to the ashes in the fire of Russian bazaar.
The law abuses were identified during the check up conducted in the interior ministry as well as the investigation conducted by the State Commission under the President of […]
