Turkmenistan

Plus, even more gas in Turkmenistan and Slovakia ties euro rescue to early elections.

The region’s autocrats have learned how to fake modernization while maintaining a very old-fashioned kind of rule.

Kazakhstan lifts its ban on a blogging site accused of hosting Islamist content, while a Turkmen opposition news site is hit by a mysterious hacking attack.

Statues and monuments are an uncanny guide to a people’s vices, grievances, and insecurities.

The responses, for various reasons, are cautious.

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.