According to the article New Alphabets, Old Rules: Latinization, Legacy, and Liberation in Central Asia, written in 2021 by Huw du Boulay and Sofya du Boulay of Oxford University, Latinization of the alphabet has been...
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...
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...
