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- 16 May 2013
- Young, Loud, and Turkmen
- Ashgabat’s few rock ’n’ rollers keep a low profile and face a limited future.
- By Dengiz Uralov
- 1 May 2013
- A Victory for Tymoshenko, A Black Eye for Central Asia’s Religion Bullies
Plus, protests and anger on this Labor Day, and presidential grants in Armenia go to shadowy groups.
- By Barbara Frye, Joshua Boissevain, and Connor Zickgraf
- 15 April 2013
- Romania Ends Notorious Road Contract, Azerbaijan Targets Free Thought
Plus, Lithuanians and Latvians are among the EU’s top degree-holders, and Ashgabat’s urban renewal leaves misery in its wake.
- By Barbara Frye, Joshua Boissevain, Ioana Caloianu, and Vladimir Matan
- 1 February 2013
- Welcoming Oasis or Mirage?
Turkmenistan says it wants to privatize some industries, but will this project just quietly go away, like so many others? From EurasiaNet.org.
- By Murat Sadykov
- 31 January 2013
- Russia Quits U.S. Crime-Fighting Pact, Hackers Tell Uzbeks Official Media Spread Lies
Plus, a European court slams Hungary over placement of Roma students and Estonia presses on with a controversial new museum.
- By Nirvana Bhatia. Ioana Caloianu, Anna Novosad, Richard Parrish, and Nino Tsintsadze
- 21 January 2013
- Turkmenistan’s Latest Great Work of Fiction
A new media law in one of the world’s most repressive states promises all sorts of freedom. From IWPR.
- By Inga Sikorskaya
- 14 January 2013
- Muscovites March Against Adoption Ban, Dacic ‘Faces Facts’ on Kosovo
Plus, Czechs cast the first vote in their history for a president and Turkmenistan prepares to off-load some assets.
- By Joshua Boissevain, Ioana Caloianu, Anna Novosad, Richard Parrish, and Nino Tsintsadze
- 9 November 2012
- Turkmenistan: Still Waiting for the Digital Age
It’s a land of e-commerce sites where you can’t buy anything and ATMs where you can’t get cash. From EurasiaNet.org.
- By Serdar Aytakov
- 14 September 2012
- EU Slams Baku Over Safarov, Madonna ‘Gay Propaganda’ Suit Continues
Plus, Bosnia makes a big organized crime bust and an independent Ukrainian TV channel faces a crippling blow.
- By S. Adam Cardais and Nino Tsintsadze
- 22 August 2012
- Merkel Heads to Moldova, Basescu Heads Back to Presidential Palace
Plus, France may pull a U-turn on the issue of Romani migrants and Ecuador gets embroiled in another asylum scandal.
- By Ky Krauthamer, Joshua Boissevain, Ioana Caloianu, and Ernad Halilovic
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