This is the translation of Abdulgamid’s post from the Russian part of the blog.
The theme of relations of Turkmen with internet has been touched in his several posts, where he reviewed the subject from different points of view: sports (motor racing), Facebook social net, Turkmen hackers and public opinion online poll. This time […]

This is the translation of Abdulgamid’s post in the Russian-language part of the blog.
Now the discussion of Internet in Turkmenistan continues in a surprising way. While “World Wide Web” still has not spread widely around our country, Turkmen hackers have become famous around the world.

The capital of Turkmenistan is changing rapidly. Multi-storey buildings built on money from gas export are springing in the centre of the city. Glass, marble and steel are gradually supplanting small brick houses with colourful gates and shutters surrounded by high walls. Entire old districts have disappeared in order to make space for the […]

The latest issue of the Reporting Central Asia section of the Institute of War and Peace Reporting features an interesting article about the decline of Turkmen identity in Iran. According to Muhammad Tahir’s report, the number of people speaking in the Turkmen language has dropped dramatically, most notably among the young, who perceive Farsi […]

Lucy Ash of the BBC has continued making mileage of her trip to Turkmenistan; this time by contributing a travel article to The Independent. The piece is reasonably likeable, though her anecdote about a visit to the dentist will ring familiar to regular listeners of From Our Own Correspondent.
One interesting fact is that it […]

Martha Brill Olcott, who over the last decade has become on of the leading scholars on Central Asia, has just published her new book, ‘Central Asia’s Second Chance’ via the Carnegie Endowment. It offers a much needed review of the development of the region since 1991. Up until now a lot of general texts […]