Turkmenistan

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.

A decentralized whistle-blower group like WikiLeaks could be the best hope to shed light on the secretive dealings of Central Asian governments.

For years, the Pentagon paid airport fees to Turkmenistan that it should not have paid. How much was paid and how it was used remain open questions. From EurasiaNet.

A new book can’t praise enough the extraordinary accomplishments of Turkmenistan’s president. From openDemocracy.

Turkmenistan’s health system is opaque, inadequate, and downright dangerous, an independent medical group warns.

Tremendous crowding and shortages in Turkmen prisons mean that too many who go in never come out.