In an article titled “Examining U.S. Relations With Authoritarian Countries” authors Thomas Carothers and Benjamin Feldman examine 58 undemocratic countries and categorize them into four groups depending on their...
Water is receding in all Central Asian countries. A research by Dr. Eric Rudenshiold from the Caspian Policy Center titled “Is it too late to save Central Asia? The crisis is already here” reveals existential threat...
The United Nations has updated the data on land degradation and desertification across the world, which was presented and discussed at a summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on November 13-17, 2023. According to the latest...
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report titled Agency Actions Needed to Address Harassment of Dissidents and Other Tactics of Transnational Repression in the U.S. While the report primarily...
To investigate the origin and ancestral source of the Akhal-Teke horse eight scientists from the Gansu Agricultural University in Lanzhou, China used genome-wide data from 22 breeds (481 horses) and mitochondrial...
Civic freedoms are being curtailed in a growing number of countries. Turkmenistan is the 6th most closed country in the world by the CIVICUS Monitor. The CIVICUS Monitor assesses the enabling conditions for civil...
Turkmenistan conducted its third population and housing census on December 17-27, 2022 with door-to-door visits using tablets for data collection. Since the results of the previous 2012 census have never been made...
The Aarhus Convention, formally known as the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making, and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters, is an international treaty adopted in 1998 under...
Under the reporting requirements of the Paris Agreement, nations that are signatories are required annually submit estimates of their greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide and methane. Recently published...
There have been conflicting reports on the number of first graders attending school in Turkmenistan in 2023. The national media, Orient, first shared that 76,600 first graders will be attending school in Turkmenistan in...
