Turkmenistan

TOL Talk: An author offers a rare look at daily life inside the huge question mark known as Turkmenistan.

The regional status quo could lead to a genuine water crisis, which could even include war, one researcher warns.

The leaders of Central Asia’s most repressive regimes are scanning the horizon for signs of trouble that, sooner or later, is bound to come.

Ashgabat gleams with new buildings and gobbles up the old. From EurasiaNet.

The EU’s overtures to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan could be making the human rights situations there worse, not better.

Turkmenistan’s internal political stasis is strong enough to ensure that natural resource wealth is not used in the interests of society at large, a Russian pundit says. From Chronicles of Turkmenistan.

The WikiLeaks cables depict the corruption that has long been an open secret in Central Asia, but they also show the Americans doing their level best amid a cast of unsavory characters.

As a new school year opens, students in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are in for more bitter lessons in propaganda, corruption, and time-wasting.

No longer tied exclusively to Russian contracts, Turkmenistan continues to expand its customer base for gas and oil supplies. From EurasiaNet.