Yesterday my source of information in the Turkmen KGB provided me with sensational information that I would like to share with you. The information is: TURKMENBASHI IS ALIVE! How is it possible? Colonel Akmamed (let’s name him this way) told me that the pillow, used for throttling Niyazov on the memorable night of 21 December […]
On 29 February, News Central Asia website edited by the Pakistanis, published Tariq Saeedi’s piece wherein he harshly criticized Internet sites for reprinting the news announced by the Turkmenistan Chronicles. The news concerned alleged mass dismissals from the Turkmen TV, caused by a cockroach that supposedly crawled across the table during the news transmission. […]
About a week ago Russian market, the biggest and most popular bazaar, in Ashgabat was almost burnt.
Unfortunately, no major news pages have reported on this yet.
If anyone wants to share information about what happened, please, do leave a comment. Or drop a line if you are interested to write a post about it (merdjen@neweurasia.net)
Russian bazaar is […]
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 […]
Abdulgamid’s original post in Russian, 23.07.07. Translated by Merdjen
In December 2006, Neweurasia.net carried out an interesting experiment - we asked our authors to write a post on the following topic “How do I see my home country in 15 years?”. The Russian Turkmenistan blog hadn’t yet existed at that time, so we still don’t […]
Abdulgamid’s original post in Russian, 23.07.07. Translated by Merdjen
The World Bank evaluated the effectiveness of governance performance of more than 200 countries and territories in its report Governance Matters 2007: Worldwide Governance Indicators 1996-2006.
The most efficient governments were considered those of Finland, Norway, New Zealand and Iceland by WB experts. These countries earned such […]
