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...
In a recent paper published in TECTONICS, scientists present the findings of a joint Turkmenistan-UK project on the active tectonics of the territory of Turkmenistan. Tectonic relates to the structure of the...
Access Now, an organisation promoting digital rights of users at risk, recently published a report titled “Weapons of control, shields of impunity: Internet shutdowns in 2022.” It describes a growing trend of 187...
The World Bank published a blog post titled: For faster growth, Central Asia must confront biased perceptions about the value of women’s work. It shares the findings from the Listening to Central Asia survey, where...
February 2023: the price of palaw increases for the first time since March 2022. Prices of onion remain high in the aftermath of the cold weather in January 2023. The average cost of cooking palaw in Ashgabat was 77.9...
Central Asia Barometer (CAB) is a regional non-profit organization conducting public opinion surveys on social, economic, and political atmosphere in the countries of Central Asia. The Barometer runs the surveys twice a...
