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...
The new project by the Taliban government of Afghanistan involves a construction of a large canal in the north of Afghanistan, that will redirect water from Amu Darya river and create 550,000 hectares of farmland from...
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 –...
March 2023: the cost of palaw saw another drop in price. Onion prices are still on the rise amid the low temperatures experienced in January 2023. In March 2023, the average cost of preparing palaw in Ashgabat was 78.7...
Gender and women’s rights have always been a crucial part of policy making in Turkmenistan. In her article Cultural Parameters of Gender Policy Making in Contemporary Turkmenistan, written in 2005, Irina Liczek examines...
An article titled “Revealed: 1,000 super-emitting methane leaks risk triggering climate tipping points” published in the Guardian on March 6th, 2023 puts a spotlight on more than a 1,000 “super-emitter” sites that have...
Pro-government news outlets in Turkmenistan regularly cover and highlight the country’s global ranking for having the cheapest gasoline prices. In 2022, Turkmenportal published five news articles citing data from...
According to the article, Kazakhstan Changes The Social Welfare System. Will The Poor Live Better?, the Kazakh government admitted that official statistics have misreported the amount of poor people living in the...
OSCE Network has recently published a report titled The OSCE and Central Asia – Options for engagement in the context of the crisis in Afghanistan and the war in Ukraine. It describes recent events including the...
