Several days ago, I wrote a post entitled “Forest in the desert”, in which I spoke negatively about the project of planting trees around Ashgabat that has been implemented for years by the Turkmen authorities. My post was criticized by many commentators and I was accused of constant “complaining and bragging”.
So I decided to […]

The Izvestiya daily reported on December 9 quoting the Itar Tass press agency that the EU Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy Benita Ferrero-Waldner had said in a telephone conversation with the Austrian media that president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov supported the construction of the Nabucco gas pipeline. He had reportedly stated in an […]

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. […]