Turkmenistan faces serious challenges with water availability and the country has finally started talking about these issues. On October 22, 2023 the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign...
Business as usual will not help the people or the climate in Turkmenistan. In June 2023, several highly regarded international media outlets, including Bloomberg and the Guardian, reported ongoing negotiations between...
The book “Climate Change in Central Asia: Decarbonization, Energy Transition, and Climate Policy” (2023) gives an overview of climate change research in Central Asia, focusing on the impact on the region and...
The article Potential of Landsat 8 OLI for mapping and monitoring of soil salinity in an arid region: A case study in Dushak, Turkmenistan written in 2021 examines the effectiveness of remote sensing technology for...
In 2004 during Saparmurat Niyazov’s presidency Turkmenistan stopped recognizing foreign diplomas. During the two years leading up to it, 11,000 teachers and 15,000 healthcare staff had already been dismissed from their...
The Turkmenistan chapter in the article Christianity in South and Central Asia, written in 2019 by Barakatullo Ashurov of Harvard University, examines the role of Christianity in Turkmenistan and how it has evolved...
The article, Transformations in Turkmen higher education: current opportunities and challenges at a new university, written in 2017 by Kelly Lee Gaynor, examines the history of higher education in Turkmenistan since its...
According to the article Не всем понятно: существует ли угроза для русского языка в Центральной Азии, the use of the Russian language is slowly dying out in Turkmenistan, although there is still a substantial Russian...
Turkmenistan has recently published the updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC 2.0) on the NDC Registry of the United Nations Climate Change website. The NDC outlines the measures that Turkmenistan plans to...
A team of computer scientists from the University of Chicago and University of Maryland conducted the first ever large-scale research on internet censorship in Turkmenistan between 2021 and 2022. The paper is titled –...
