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...
In August, 2023 the IWPR Central Asia office organized an international meeting of experts to discuss Central Asia’s infrastructure and energy potential. The expert meeting was held to discuss the progress and...
The Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting has highlighted Kyrgyzstan’s deepening energy crisis. The country’s electricity deficit has worsened due to domestic power plants struggling to meet demand and...
A new report “Toward a Framework for the Sustainable Heating Transition in Europe and Central Asia” by the World Bank provides the results of the analysis of the heating sector of 23 developing countries of the Europe...
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...
September 2023: Palaw price plummets by 18%. Carrot prices continue to rise. In September 2023, the average cost of preparing palaw in Ashgabat was 69.1 Turkmen manat. This amount represented a noteworthy 18.5% decrease...
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...
A Lyrical BiographyBY ORAZ YAGMYRTranslated by Dr Youssef AzemounPublished by the Society of Friends of Makhtumkuli, 145 pages, 2017. NURY HALMAMMEDOV is the foremost composer to have emerged from the Turkmen people in...
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...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB), established in 1966 and owned by 68 members, is dedicated to promoting prosperity, resilience, and sustainability across Asia and the Pacific. Turkmenistan became an ADB member in 2000...
